Hello Folks

Does anyone have a set of 303/25 dies that they will part with for less than a small fortune, preferably already in NZ ??

Cheers

Western firearms in Sydney should have some they have adveretised Lyman dies for $65 they can be reached on 61 02 95704794 (not sure on the 61 I think it is the number for Oz)
you could also try Ebay

First name-last name
Most european cartridges are named (diameter of bullet) and (lenght of case) Like 7X57 or 6.5 X 55.
In North America when a new round is made from an old round by necking the case up or down the name is usually (bullet diameter) and Cartridge case it is based on) Like 25/06 and 7mm-08 and .22/250.
Why in Aus. do you call this wildcat a 303/25 instead of a .25/303?

Just curious.

Robin

Following our English forefathers, I guess.

Don't they put the original calibre then what it is necked to? .450/400 Jeffry 3", for example.

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Originally posted by duffy4:
First name-last name
Most european cartridges are named (diameter of bullet) and (lenght of case) Like 7X57 or 6.5 X 55.
In North America when a new round is made from an old round by necking the case up or down the name is usually (bullet diameter) and Cartridge case it is based on) Like 25/06 and 7mm-08 and .22/250.
Why in Aus. do you call this wildcat a 303/25 instead of a .25/303?

Just curious.

Robin

It's just because we're on the opposite side of the world.

Tentman,

if all else fails, try Ray Jansa of Jansa Firearms..

http://www.geko.net.au/~jansa/

He's a really helpful bloke, and sells Simplex dies...

If he hasn't got 'em, he'll tell you where to get 'em.

Duffy,

as Darwinmauser says, we're on the opposite side of the world, so we see things a bit different, but then again, we didn't name a whole range of 22 cals thus:

22 Hornet, 218 Bee, 219 Wasp, 219 Zipper, 221 Fireball, 222 Rem, 223 Rem, 223 WSSM, 220 Swift, 224 WM, - which all have a .224 diameter bore...

Hehehe... no harm done... it just highlights the lack of logic in nomenclature...