Thread: Calibre Choice in the 1970's

Originally Posted by berg243

thats easy @Phil_H they inhale not blow.

....like a Green Party voter.

Uh-oh, is the topic deviating just a little?

What about 284, saw one or two back in the 70’s. ( funny looking cartridge)

Originally Posted by Finnwolf

Uh-oh, is the topic deviating just a little?

What about 284, saw one or two back in the 70’s. ( funny looking cartridge)

The Savage 99 lever action was chambered for it. Production stopped 1972.

Also .284 in Winchester Model 88 lever and Model 100 semi-auto

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

If you went 222, 243 and 3006, you would still have it covered. Perfect spread in my opinion.

That's where I am at.
Great minds think alike or fools seldom differ.

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@Phil_H

Swedish rifles 1894 to 1960


Sounds like you might have had a Swedish produced Mauser K98.If you still have doubt, Email Olof at the Swedish historial arms society and he will be enormous asisstance.

Originally Posted by Phil_H

Yes, I have always wondered about that @300CALMAN and would have been quite happy with that apart from the fact of the spiel I read on the auction site that was selling one approximately 10 years ago. It stated that there had been a short run done in 1893 specifically for the Swedish Royal Guard, that and the fact that companies in the states are still selling mandrels for the brass and calling it 6.9x57

I may never know.....just another one of life's unanswered questions I guess......along with how dragon's blow out candles.

Cheers
Phil

you need to sit right through the movie "coconut the little dragon" and all your questions will be answered.

hmmm must be another movie...we watched one for two hours...learnt all about firegrass,so much we nearly wet pants laughing....

Quote Originally Posted by 7mmwsm
If you went 222, 243 and 3006, you would still have it covered. Perfect spread in my opinion.

Back in the 70s an old Alaskan mate got it all done with even less. The only rifle he owned was a beautifully customized Chilean Mauser 7x57. He used that for everything from hares to moose to grizzlys. He made up a half dozen different loads for it and marked the cases with nail polish in various colours to denote the different bullet weights and powder loads. Worked for him.

Originally Posted by caberslash

Hi @Mooseman, when in the NZFS did you get a discount on rifles purchased and free ammo?

Read somewhere that you got 3 rounds of .222 per deer or 2 rounds of .270/.243 etc.

Supposedly some cullers would sell their surplus factory (Belmont?) ammo then reload cases to increase their take home pay, can you confirm?

Many thanks and much respect!

Hi @caberslash
Yes we got our Sako Vixen 222 for $240 with rings and a 4 xWeaver scope, and ammo was free. We were allocated 3 rounds per kill so we ended up with surplus as when we hunted 7 days a week you got pretty good with your rifle and didn't miss to often. Not sure about the last question I haven't heard of it happening but wouldn't be surprised . I bought a Sako Forrester in 243 while in the Forest Service but didn't get allocated ammo for it, it was cheap enough and some days I would take it out for a hunt just for a change, great days back then for sure.

I often went into Tisdall's after school, early 70's. They just don't have shops like that anymore. It was like walking into 'Santa's Gun-Cave', not a stainless barrel in sight

Only went there once while visiting Wgtn and it sure was an Alladin's cave. Saw stuff you only read about in small towns

I was born in 72.....My old man hunted with a semi 243 that I never saw....used a husky 30/06 and raved about its putting down on spot power,had soft spot for 303 and not the 308...go figure???
older bro had 30/30,then 223 then 308
one of the crowd they hunted with had a 270
and that was about all I came into contact with as a kid
handled some nice rifles over the years,savage 66 in 22hp savage...apparently my Grandfathers rifle of choice,
32/20 both in lever and a single shot bolt gun.
styer/manlicher full wooden 270win was possible the most classy hunting rifle Ive ever handled.
we went up to by piha beach to buy an ellis charmers HD6 and the fella had huge gun collection,got to fire brown bess with priming charge,handled a vickers and just was gob struck....
happy days when collections were stacked against wall of strong room and WERE SAFE....

MD that semiauto 243 might have been a Remington 740 Woodmaster- quite alot around then. Later called 7400. Old man liked his Remington 760 Gamemaster pump action - the Remmy pumps and semis very quick and effective in the northern bush. Neither around now of course... Cindy thought they might kill something..

My first was the Parker Hale lee Enfield conversion in 303 of course. John Prince an Engine Driver in Greymouth handloaded it for me used to get 40 mm groups with a Kowa scope. I was living in Otira at the time and bought a Sako finnbear in .270 off another Engine Driver, 1 load , 55 grains of 4831 and the Hornady 150 grain flat base bullets, she was a heavy bitch and the choppers were cleaning out the tussock country so swapped it for a BSA majestic in 308 with the muzzle break, had some sort of European scope , Wetzlar? or similar probably my favourite combo. My brother has an identical rifle now.

Yep - the Remmy Woodmaster was called the 740 for short period from 1955-59 apparently. Then in 1962 it became the better known 742 until 1980 when it became the 7400. No idea when it was discontinued...

Actually there were alot of interesting old rimfires in that 50s- 80s period too.