38 Long Cox

[Good Cheer]

Well, my favorite is my old deer rifle built on a Ruger No.3 with 26" tube, put together by Pasadena Gun Center in 1982.
375x45-70 with a 45 degree shoulder and a 9/16" long neck.
My hunting load is the Lyman 375296 with wheel weights, compressed charge of 760 and a CCI mag primer.

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The developed load data was 283 grains of wheel weights at 2053fps.
Overkill on bambi's but I designed it to be good to at least 200 yards.

[missionary5155]

Good morning
Sounds like a winner to me. I like most any case that will hold a 38 caliber rifle boolit from the 375 Supermag right on through that Big Boomer Weatherby.
Can you post a picture of the cartrige ??

[mroliver77]

It aint so without pictures! :)
J

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Here ya go.
http://i791.photobucket.com/albums/yy192/SNARGLEFLERK/38LC.jpg

Over the years it has been oh so tempting to scale this cartridge down into one that maintains the same cross sectional area ratios for the case and neck for a 28 caliber, down from .377 groove to .277.

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Wow that's a fine looking round looks perfect to me for boolit shootin'. What twist do you have in that rifle and wonder if reamers are available?

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Thanks. It was my wild child and worked out exactly as intended. I had really gotten fed up with living with cartridges designed for either black powder or jacketed bullets and decided to make my own.

The twist is 1:12".
If it hasn't been lost, the reamer should still be at Pasadena Gun Center, Pasadena, TX.
Ask for David.

[Echo]

That really IS a robust-looking cartridge. I'm getting a yen...