Good evening
I am about to purchase a Lee Enfield .303.
I already reload other calibre.
Do you have any loads for .303. Also what bullets do you use.
Does anyone have any .303 brass they no longer want?
Thank you in advance.
Good evening
I am about to purchase a Lee Enfield .303.
I already reload other calibre.
Do you have any loads for .303. Also what bullets do you use.
Does anyone have any .303 brass they no longer want?
Thank you in advance.
I shoot cast bullets, mainly 155gn .316 from an NOE mould over 16gn of Alliant 2400 which gives me something like 1600fps.
The best way I’ve found of getting brass is to shoot Privi factory rounds and keep the brass. With the lower powered rounds it lasts seemingly indefinitely.
That's how everybody in our club keeps their .303 British shooting. Depending on the age, variant et al of your L-E, the bore can be anything between .311" and .315", so it might be a good idea to find out as soon as you get it.
@OP - Tell us all about it, please. We likes L-E's.
tac
I use 174grain bullets, with 41.5grains of Swiss RS50 powder in my Long Branch No4 mk1*. I can only shoot to a maximum of 300yds at our range, but it shoots very well at that distance.
HuMa regulated S200 .22...
Artemis PP800 .177...
Weihrauch HW45 .177
Interesting reading gents, my S.M.L.E. (1935 BSA Commercial from the Bahrain contract) is a bit of a shelf queen so only comes out for special events and gets fed on a diet of S&B.
I'm wondering about reloading (and have been for ages), how much are you guys reloading each round for ??
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Using scrap lead I can load a box of 50 for about four to five quid.
If you can get to see some unresized fired cases, so much the better.
L-E chambers can be cut too deep, causing cases to swell just ahead of the web - which means they may separate on firing the first or second reload. Theoretically the shoulder should roll forward, but usually it doesn't because the brass is workhardened by the short shoulder's double-bend.
I ended up shooting factory loads, new cases, or once fired from other tight chambers in my Mk.III*.
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