Thread: Resurgence of interest in the old "Three Oh"?

Originally Posted by akaroa1

Sort of an old school Ruger #1 303

I just brought this
Remington sporting rolling block #5 303

Attachment 198129

Attachment 198130

@akaroa1,
You are a very bad man. Fancy posting pic's of a rifle like that without prior warning. I fired a Remington rolling block in 50-90 IIRC and a Remington Hepburn in 38-55 many years ago which has left me with a weakness for nice old single shot rifles, or nice not so old single shot rifles. Every time I see one I have arguments with myself which go like this:

Gee thats a nice rifle.
What would you do with another rifle. You hardly use some of the ones you have?
But a (insert name of current rifle of interest here) would be good for (insert current fantasy uses here).

You get the idea. This can go on for a few hours until my tightwad tendancies triumph and nothing happens. One day perhaps.
Regards Grandpamac

Originally Posted by grandpamac

@akaroa1,
You are a very bad man. Fancy posting pic's of a rifle like that without prior warning. I fired a Remington rolling block in 50-90 IIRC and a Remington Hepburn in 38-55 many years ago which has left me with a weakness for nice old single shot rifles, or nice not so old single shot rifles. Every time I see one I have arguments with myself which go like this:

Gee thats a nice rifle.
What would you do with another rifle. You hardly use some of the ones you have?
But a (insert name of current rifle of interest here) would be good for (insert current fantasy uses here).

You get the idea. This can go on for a few hours until my tightwad tendancies triumph and nothing happens. One day perhaps.
Regards Grandpamac

@grandpamac I'm genuinely sorry to have caused so much pain and torment

I will PM you with 24 hours notice before I drop any images of a single shot vintage rifle

Originally Posted by akaroa1

@grandpamac I'm genuinely sorry to have caused so much pain and torment

I will PM you with 24 hours notice before I drop any images of a single shot vintage rifle

@grandpamac I feel it only decent to warn you that the Remington #5 303 is now in my possession where it belongs
It has passed inspection this evening and after a decent bore cleaning in the morning and some hand loads being constructed it is likely to be fired and the results posted here
With graphic pictures

So you might want to look away for a few days or weeks
I'm not responcilble if you do peek

Originally Posted by akaroa1

@grandpamac I feel it only decent to warn you that the Remington #5 303 is now in my possession where it belongs
It has passed inspection this evening and after a decent bore cleaning in the morning and some hand loads being constructed it is likely to be fired and the results posted here
With graphic pictures

So you might want to look away for a few days or weeks
I'm not responcilble if you do peek

Thankyou @akaroa1,
Over the past week or so I have developed some coping straregies and have a back up plan of a quiet room with some soothing recordings of rifle fire on the range that I have recorded for this purpose. With this and your kind warning I should be OK. I must say that I am quite looking forward to your report. This last week I gave my son my No4 iron sight rifle that I no longer use and he sent back a photo of it with fore and top wood very similar to that used on some No4 .308 conversions. It certainly looked better than when it left here. This was useful training for your forthcoming report.
Many thanks Grandpamac.

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Thankyou @akaroa1,
Over the past week or so I have developed some coping straregies and have a back up plan of a quiet room with some soothing recordings of rifle fire on the range that I have recorded for this purpose. With this and your kind warning I should be OK. I must say that I am quite looking forward to your report. This last week I gave my son my No4 iron sight rifle that I no longer use and he sent back a photo of it with fore and top wood very similar to that used on some No4 .308 conversions. It certainly looked better than when it left here. This was useful training for your forthcoming report.
Many thanks Grandpamac.

@grandpamac you are safe from the padded room for a while more
I struck a very significant problem this morning and won't be test firing for some time

The joys of owning historically significant vintage rifles and wanting to shoot them
I don't blame the previous owner because unless you were going to shoot it you wouldn't have found this problem

Problems are just solutions waiting to be implemented