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Originally Posted by red-beard
I've considered getting rid of my 1947 Winchester 30-30,
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I'll pretend I didn't hear that...
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Originally Posted by red-beard
but it is much too sweet a rifle.
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Phew... don't scare me like that...
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Originally Posted by legion
That's why I make my own. .308 bullets can be gotten cheap, and you can make .223/5.56 brass into .300 BLK.
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That was the original appeal, after all. Kind of a bit of a dichotomy, though - all that work to neck up and fireform brass, then burn it up in an ammo-gobbling semi auto. Most folks who put that kind of effort into handloading prefer to shoot bolt guns, single shots, or lever guns.
Kind of as a somewhat related aside, this sort of reminds me of back in the '90's and early 2000's, when the long range black powder cartridge rifle game was big around here. A guy used to show up with a modern made reproduction Gatling gun. Could have been the Colt, of made from blueprints - I don't know. Anyway, he offered it up for use if you supplied your own black powder, cast bullet .45-70 loads, like the ones we were shooting in the match anyway. I never fired it, but I well remember the looks on some guys faces as they looked at the pile of spent cases at their feet, anywhere from 50 to 100 rounds. Anyone who has ever reloaded this kind of ammo will understand just how labor intensive it is. And that thing gobbled it up in just a few cranks of the handle. Yikes...