Harter66
09-14-2013, 05:08 PM
I had a little wind fall a few yr ago. This homely but well polished Carcano was gifted to me.
The very short version goes a guy was going to build me a new stock and lost the original bubba stock and the gain twist bbl was cut back somewhere in the range of the 1-12 twist rather that 1-8/9 range. Goodsteel bbl'd it and did some stock tweeking and its a great shooter in 7mmRWH (7x6.8 Rem straight .007 neck up) .
Yesterday after many months of half-hearted searching and muttering 'you want how much for that clip???' I scored 6 clips and 28 rd of 7.35 for $50 . At 1st $8.35 for the clips was nuts, but the last 1s I saw were more than that, then the shipping........
This morning I though 'hey I wonder if I can make something else out of the brass? Well of course I can. Hey if this is unfired (the headstamps match the clipstamps) theres 32 Rem or 6.8 or trim to 35 Rem if they are fired 7.62-39 maybe w/a lot of trimming.
Anyway if I can get 32 Rem out of it it'll make it a pretty sweet deal as that was over $1/ea last time it was ''readily'' available.
The very short version goes a guy was going to build me a new stock and lost the original bubba stock and the gain twist bbl was cut back somewhere in the range of the 1-12 twist rather that 1-8/9 range. Goodsteel bbl'd it and did some stock tweeking and its a great shooter in 7mmRWH (7x6.8 Rem straight .007 neck up) .
Yesterday after many months of half-hearted searching and muttering 'you want how much for that clip???' I scored 6 clips and 28 rd of 7.35 for $50 . At 1st $8.35 for the clips was nuts, but the last 1s I saw were more than that, then the shipping........
This morning I though 'hey I wonder if I can make something else out of the brass? Well of course I can. Hey if this is unfired (the headstamps match the clipstamps) theres 32 Rem or 6.8 or trim to 35 Rem if they are fired 7.62-39 maybe w/a lot of trimming.
Anyway if I can get 32 Rem out of it it'll make it a pretty sweet deal as that was over $1/ea last time it was ''readily'' available.