TCLouis
09-27-2020, 09:10 PM
Traded into the Francotte some years ago, shot it some then (coated bullets using 30X221 data) and it has been languishing in the safe and is wanting to come out to play this winter using the proper BOOLITS.
I had called it a Martini, but was corrected and in my ignorance do not know the difference.
Could be a "One-Of" since it came fro the shop of an O F gunsmith (deceased at the time of my trade) from back in the day.
It was given to a friend of his for disposal before the GS's demise and the interim person knew NOTHING about it other than the GS had competed with it and the barrel was from a 308 gun the GS used in competition. He had turned it back in the 308 gun and rechambered it several times so the heavy barrel looks like termites had gotten to it where he drilled and taped it for Sights/scope blocks. That does not concern me.
Nuff history, now to the case dimensions
Diameter in front of the rim 0.378" (what else could it be?)
OAL 1.570"
Base to startof neck 1.58
Base to Neck 1.2
Neck 0.37
Essentially a rimed 30X221 with a LONG neck.
Named cartridge or OFs Gun Smith's "One Of"?
Any help identifying the cartridge would really be appreciated.
I had called it a Martini, but was corrected and in my ignorance do not know the difference.
Could be a "One-Of" since it came fro the shop of an O F gunsmith (deceased at the time of my trade) from back in the day.
It was given to a friend of his for disposal before the GS's demise and the interim person knew NOTHING about it other than the GS had competed with it and the barrel was from a 308 gun the GS used in competition. He had turned it back in the 308 gun and rechambered it several times so the heavy barrel looks like termites had gotten to it where he drilled and taped it for Sights/scope blocks. That does not concern me.
Nuff history, now to the case dimensions
Diameter in front of the rim 0.378" (what else could it be?)
OAL 1.570"
Base to startof neck 1.58
Base to Neck 1.2
Neck 0.37
Essentially a rimed 30X221 with a LONG neck.
Named cartridge or OFs Gun Smith's "One Of"?
Any help identifying the cartridge would really be appreciated.