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Old 01-12-2017, 08:33 AM
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Originally Posted by mgvande View Post

If you reload get some .312 hornady bullets and do up some loads. If you don't reload I find the silver PowerPoint box Winchester seems to be the most accurate 303 shells. I did a test between Remington and Winchester and Winchester won at 100m by 4" in a five shot group. Best PowerPoint group was 2". Don't cut the barrel. I have ran a ball bearing in a 1/2 drill and 'recrowned' the end of the barrel with success. I did this due to not having anything to loose on a sporter that is worth 150 bucks. You mentioned Wiliams sights, by the time you got that on the gun you have doubled what the gun is worth. I like to bed the back bearing surface of the forstock to the socket to 'sturdy things up also I tend to drop in a waxed piece of paper between the barrel band and the barrel to take up some slack...... All what I mentioned with the exception of the ammo was basically free. The reason I mentioned all that is why having a gun that isn't worth anything fun to have around. No I would sink money into it but I would screw around with it until it's your main hunting gun cause they will shoot eventually. That's what I did with mine now I got a whole bunch of beaters to fiddle with when its -30.
Mine shoots both Winchester and Remington 180 grains into a 2.75" group, I've already bedded it and I will try a pressure point in the fore stock next. I already have the Williams sight, it cost me about $40 shipped and I would do the D&T myself. I haven't put it on yet because removing the rear sight on the No1 appears to either require some very careful work with a grinder... and destroying the rear sight, or removing the front sight... at which point I may as well cut down the barrel... then maybe mount a scope...

So even though I have the Williams sight in my possession, installing it feels like it might be the first step in a string of modifications... should I decide to do so.

I agree having a gun that is worth nothing around is pretty fun, and I've even come to enjoy the challenge of trying to shoot to the guns potential with the open sights.
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