348 win in a RB??

[Hackleback]

I have a RB in 8mm Danish Craig and the bore is in poor shape. I have tried several 8 mm loads and have not had much luck in getting it to shoot. I had a thought a couple of days ago about doing a rebore to it to clean up the bore. My first thought was to do something like a 35 Danish Craig- that is rebore the barrel to 358, leave the chamber alone and open up the loading dies. Early on in the reforming brass process, I tried refoming some 348 brass to 8mm DC. It was just too much for the presses I had - just too much metal to move since it appears to be larger than the 8mm DC. My current thought is just to rebore to 348 Win, but I have no idea what presures this round is loaded to with factory ammo.

After all that the question is- is a Swedish RB strong enough to handle factory loaded 348 win ammo?

[longbow]

.348 Winchester SAAMI info is here:

http://www.leverguns.com/articles/saami_pressures.htm

8mm Danish Krag info is here:

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=33276

Maybe that will help a bit.

Longbow

[Nevs]

The danish krag is easyest made from 7,62X45R cases, anneal them below the middle of the case and let them aircool.

Buy a 4D dieset in 8x58RD load it up wit a lead bullet an bp or smokeless.
I use 8mm mauser bullets for this caliber and have fireformed many cases this way.