Thread: 303 bullets tumbling

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Lithgow only had tooling for no 3 rifles. Some photos of the markings would sort it quickly
Std process for a quick check if the throat is to drop a bullet in the breech and push it in with a pencil or cleaning rod till it stops. Push a ramrod down the bore till it touches the bullet and mark the rod.
Tap the bullet out, close the bolt on an empty chamber and push the ramrod down till it contacts the bolt face and mark it. Subtract the length of a live round from the second measurement and d the difference is your free bore.
I had a martini Enfield once where the bullet went past the rear sight before it lodged it wasn't especially accurate at all
CAC ammo would be fine to use nowadays people get a little bit obsessed with it being "corrosive" if it was that bad the military wouldn't have used it. A patch soaked in water gets the salt out, dry and oil

I'm pretty lazy and shoot CAC ammo through my Enfields and don't always use boiling water afterwards. Have had one of them for years and no noticeable difference in barrel or how it shoots. Sweets sorts them out pretty well if I forget for a few weeks.