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

Club not ckub. Crazy thing won't let me edit.

I brought my first from sportsways in downtown auckland and took it home on the bus. I think it cost $17 it was a 2 groove longbranch. I shot at clevedon when the range was up twilight? Road. There was an annual military shoot, and while no one offered to bed my rifle I was given a parker hale 5c aperture for it which improved things quite markedly.

Mannlicher style is bloody nice
Actually.. farking nice

can never have to many pics

That mannlicher stock is stunning...anyone know anymore about that rifle ?

I bought my first 303 off my Dad's boss for $60,it came with a 100 rounds of Ammo.

My second one I bought at 17 years old on a road trip to Invercargill,I paid $101 for it from a Shop in Dunedin,it's a MK3 and also came with a bunch of Ammo and a Bayonet.I lived in Waimate at the time and used the ammo
shooting Wallibies and Goats.

20 years later I bought another 303 in a shop in Timaru,again with a bunch of Ammo.My now wife and I spent an evening walking the Hunter Hills shooting Roo's.The biggest part of New Zealand that I truely miss is the freedom to hunt unhindered by too many rules.

Try your best to keep it that way.

I have a 303 parker hale with scope mounted on it. Cant shoot past 100 yards without going all over the place. Pity as it has history and been in the family.

Originally Posted by Rusky

I have a 303 parker hale with scope mounted on it. Cant shoot past 100 yards without going all over the place. Pity as it has history and been in the family.

Greetings Rusky,
Some of the scope mounts used on .303 rifles can be pretty dodgy. If the rifle has iron sights it could be worth taking the scope off and testing with those and some modern ammo.
Regards Grandpamac.

Said a while back I would have to get a 270 and a 303 and see if I can enjoy them, after my first rifles were not so flash.

I bought a sporterised Lee Enfield with a non matching Monte Carlo rear stock for $185 from Allan Millard in Dunedin.

Took it to Fiordland and all my first hunts. Shot a few pics with it. Missed everything else.

I had a hard time hitting the A4 paper at 25m

My solution was to sit and shoot heavy loads off a bench at the 25m target. The aim was to get better. Largely I just exacerbated my flinch.

Took it goat hunting where there were masses of goats. Missed everything.

Going to have to get one and learn to shoot it or accept my shooting credentials are incomplete.

Originally Posted by Tussock

Said a while back I would have to get a 270 and a 303 and see if I can enjoy them, after my first rifles were not so flash.

I bought a sporterised Lee Enfield with a non matching Monte Carlo rear stock for $185 from Allan Millard in Dunedin.

Took it to Fiordland and all my first hunts. Shot a few pics with it. Missed everything else.

I had a hard time hitting the A4 paper at 25m

My solution was to sit and shoot heavy loads off a bench at the 25m target. The aim was to get better. Largely I just exacerbated my flinch.

Took it goat hunting where there were masses of goats. Missed everything.

Going to have to get one and learn to shoot it or accept my shooting credentials are incomplete.

In the bad old days saw lots of young guys do this, and end up with a similar result flinchwise, largely due to not wearing good earmuffs. Wear good Earmuffs when target shooting!!

Originally Posted by Tentman

In the bad old days saw lots of young guys do this, and end up with a similar result flinchwise, largely due to not wearing good earmuffs. Wear good Earmuffs when target shooting!!

You are absolutely right

Eventually I worked out I had a noise flinch not a recoil flinch

Plugs + muffs sorted it

Loved the calibre, shot a few animals with different ones, but my favourite was the Jungle Carbine for sure. Wished i had never moved it on.

Originally Posted by Gapped axe

Loved the calibre, shot a few animals with different ones, but my favourite was the Jungle Carbine for sure. Wished i had never moved it on.

I would love a jungle carbine. It suits the chambering.

I think the obsession with high speed projectiles is behind us.

Might I just say, that a great big 180gr 30 cal soft point, that is good and soft and not going too fast, does a very very good job of making stuff dead.

I recall a pig I shot, opening the diaphragm and finding nothing much left behind it.

Originally Posted by Mangle

That mannlicher stock is stunning...anyone know anymore about that rifle ?

Nicest sporterisation of a No 4 I've ever seen. And the Mannlicher snub nose is in keeping with the No 1 Mk III heritage.

Here's another one, a .25 conversion of a No 1 Mk III, several photos. http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...er-conversion&

Just need the correct nose cap, like this one at Brownell's.

Just to keep the thread going, here's a couple of veterans.
Just before lockdown a friend loaned me these, to fire at distance.
I never shot the Lee as its sights were in poor repair.
The P14 was better and actually has a shinny bore, I shot some old CAC ammo and returned some on paper shots at 300 and 600 yards I think from memory it gave 2 to 3 MOA at those distances.
Sadly for my friend I still have them, and with any luck he has completely forgotten about them.