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Old 03-07-2005, 07:32 PM
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Looking at the (estimated?) MV of what 46 grains of 3031 would do with a 198 grain jacketed pill...honestly, I'd back it off one grain for a rifle that's prolly seen BOTH World Wars.

To me, looks like pretty much one load, Mr. Barnes' semantics notwithstanding.

In all likelihood, will be doing the "Tyrolean Cowboy" load with cast leads, the Stutzen's not much longer barrel-wise than my infamous M-1944 which gets cast leads backed up by a CAS-approvable pinch of Green Dot, "Cowboyski Action" style as the Mosin carbines, IMHO & IME don't mesh that well with full house 7.62x54R...and I forsee similar results with 8x56R and a barrel of that shortness.

(and Mosin-Nagant extractors & bolt heads are still easily to be had! So hopefully you can understand my "comfort level" --or lack thereof-- with Barnes' data and something besides a new unissued Hungarian M-1935!)
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