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Originally posted by mouse93:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by KurtC:
Any cartridge in a Mannlicher-Schoenauer.

...8x68S - icy slick [/QUOT

Yes it is!

Lots of best calibers listed for no. 1 on this thread...The fact is however, it has much more to do with the individual rifle than the caliber..

My 300 H&H is old and worn so its slick, but most of all with the 300 and 375 H&Hs is all that taper makes for the best extraction known to man, not so much the feeding, and extraction is pretty darn important..

My vote goes to the 30-30 or 25-35 Win. in a mod 94 SRC..I don't think they fail if properly maintained.

Best feeding rifle in my safe is my Model 70 Stainless Classic, in ..., wait for it, ... .375 H&H.

30/30 feeds great in all of the dozen or so Marlin and Winchesters I have tried.

30/40 Krag

I doubt there is an answer to the question other than guess and by gosh..depends on the rifles action, was it tweeked etc, etc....

The 300 H&H and 375 H&H have that good reputation, but in reality that is a misinturpeted reality..Those two rounds extract better due to the long slope and I do agree with that, wheather they feed "better" is up for grabs, but they may, if so not by much.

Again, as to the old 30-40 Krag, its not the cartridge at all, in fact rimmed cartridges in bolt actions are not condusive to proper feeding, but that old Krag action is the slickest working action ever made and it does feed that 30-40 round like poop thru a goose.

I don't think that any rimmed or belted cartridge may be called "slickest" at all. They may be very good and unchangeable in double, but for bolt better not rimmed and not belted (yes, I know that many army rifles had rimmed rounds).
And because we tell here abot calibers up to .366 - so 9.3x64 is the better

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Originally posted by Snellstrom:

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Originally posted by jørgen:
A pretty slick feeding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EuvkUAHEDg

That guy was pulling the trigger with his middle finger...

Same method the Australian troops in WW1 used with the SMLE when facing mass frontal charges, especialy from trenches close to theirs. I dare say the Brit army was trained the same.

30/40 Krag in the '92 Springfiled/Krag rifle.

The slickest feeding rifle and cartridge by far, heads above anything else, is a Lee Enfield .303. Nothing feeds as smooth or as well. You can push those long tapered .303 cartridges in as quick as you like and not even feel them stripping off the mag.

From sporting rifles I can remember, the Sako Finnbear L61R from the sixties chambered in .25.06 fed slick and smooth, you worked the bolt and pushed a cartridge in and you knew you were dealing with quality. The Winchester model 70 push feed from 1981 in .30/06 would be just behind it.
But I had a Mannlicher Shoenauer as well, in .270, and yes, it fed probably the best of the sporting rifles I have used, just the design of that rotary mag made it that way compared with a double stacked Mauser derived magazine.

The worst feeding? Usually Mauser 98 actions chambered in cartridges not originally intended for the action. (Or .303's if the mag lips are bent wrong.)

The most unslickest? Other Mauser actions, usually those sporting commercial versions based on the '98. Actual military rifles in the original 7x57 or 8x57 cartridge usually feed quite well

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Originally posted by Carlsen Highway:
The slickest feeding rifle and cartridge by far, heads above anything else, is a Lee Enfield .303. Nothing feeds as smooth or as well.

May be sporterized Lee Enfield for some unrimmed cartridge would be more slick than Lee Enfield .303 ?