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Anybody with a big bore on a Springfield???

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15 December 2004, 13:27
Dago Red
Anybody with a big bore on a Springfield???
All right guys, just doing a little quest here. We are giving my stepfather his barreled action next week for Christmas (no time to finish the pattern stock before then). It is an 03a3 in 416 Taylor. I was just wondering if ANYBODY here had or knows of first hand, a big bore on a Springfield. Pictures would be even better. I have thought that they were almost unheard of, and the two I have heard about I have never seen. I want to be accurate if I tell him that he has a 95% chance of never running into another person with a Taylor on a Springfield.

Thanks all.

Red
15 December 2004, 14:11
zimhunter
I have a PH friend in Zim who has a very nice 458 Win Mag on a Remington 03 action. Whoever built it really knew what he was doing as it's an excellant rifle both in looks and service.
15 December 2004, 17:30
Dago Red
I don't suppose there is a chance you could get him to send some pics of it? is he on the web over there? I would love to see it, same case so basically same type of setup. Thanks very much for replying, that's 2 that I now know somebody has seen first hand. the other one was also a 458 win.

Red
15 December 2004, 18:58
2mp
Yes, if you consider a .400 Whelen a big-bore.



15 December 2004, 20:52
MartinPotts
2mp

Super.! nice restocking on the 03/

where did you get that done and were did you find the stock and who did the stock....

my 9.3x64 still needs to have a stock made up for it
and it's on a 03/ and that stock look's GREAT..
16 December 2004, 01:08
jeffeosso
largest bore i've seen on on...
45 LC (no kidding)

largest i've got, .358 win
i've got a 300 win on one, and see no reason that a 416 couldn't be built on one... Before i got into mexican mausers, I had it BAD for 1903s, still do, i think

jeffe
16 December 2004, 06:28
2mp
Quote:

where did you get that done and were did you find the stock and who did the stock.



Griffin & Howe made it for me in 1923, took seventy some years for delivery, but it made it to my house unfired .
16 December 2004, 06:54
fla3006
Beautiful rifle. I've really taken a shine to Springfield sporters lately. Restoring one, got another in the mail, got my eye on a third.
16 December 2004, 07:24
MartinPotts
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Griffin & Howe made it for me in 1923



Adding 21 years to that age make's You on the order of alittle over 100 Year's old

Still a nice rifle grand dad
16 December 2004, 12:50
Dago Red
Beautiful rifle, now is that one of the originally chambered ones that works off of the straight walled virgin 06 brass? I heard that the original chamber spec's there was no problem with headspace, it was a later chamber that worked from a standard 06 case necked up that had the problems because the shoulder dimensions were different.

Red
16 December 2004, 15:45
2mp
Quote:

Beautiful rifle, now is that one of the originally chambered ones that works off of the straight walled virgin 06 brass? I heard that the original chamber spec's there was no problem with headspace, it was a later chamber that worked from a standard 06 case necked up that had the problems because the shoulder dimensions were different.
Red


It�s a little more complicated than that, may I suggest you read,

http://www.z-hat.com/smashing_the_headspace_myth.htm
16 December 2004, 19:44
Dago Red
I have read that, that was what I was referring too, sorry if I didn't get the details right. is this one of the original rifles, or is it setup that way? You know it would go great with my other springfields few though they may be, want to send it to me for safe keeping? :-)

Red
16 December 2004, 20:24
2mp
Red,



The rifle in the picture and the rifle in the article are one and the same. Yes this rifle has the original size shoulder .458� and there have been zero problems with this rifle or the new one I built on a Model 70 action. A interesting part of history but too big for North America and too small for Africa. Summer before last I shot several hundred rounds through the new rifle (m-70) and have had all the big-bore fun I need for awhile.



Michael Petrov (MP)





�want to send it to me for safe keeping?� Sure, send me a gallon can full of hundred dollar bills to hold in it�s place.