Maybe a .284 win wildcat is in order? .30-284, .338-284 or 35-284?

I would think a 25-06, 6mm-06, or .257 Roberts would fill you out nice.

I left my '03-A3 as a .30-06...



But I did make a .358 Norma Mag (Springfield Arsenal) and a .458 Win Mag (Rock Island Arsenal) out of two '03 high-numbered actions. Found them both to be very fine rifles.



AC

Alberta, I thought that I replied to this, don't know what happened to that post. Do you have any pics of your 03 in 458? I would like to see it since this is the first I have heard fo soembody doing on that big, although I know possible (since I am having one done in 416 tyalor right now).

Thanks

Red

Clio, Mike Petrov in Anchorage is the .400 Whelen guru and has written articles about it, owns a couple with the correct chambering, might even know where to find a reamer. Great idea to replicate a G&H of the 1920s but you might make the stock a little straighter. I think Mike posts here as 2MP.

We have somebody posting here that owns a couple and they have been holding out on us?! That is criminal! :-)

Red

My interest in the .400 Whelen was more to find out if all the bad things written about it were true (they weren�t) then to see the reintroduction of the cartridge. On the particle side it�s too big for North America and too small for Africa. I have spent time working with an original 1903-G&H in .400 and a one I had built on a pre-64 model 70 so if anyone has questions, I would try to answer them. The new rifle shoots North Fork 300 grain bullet at 2383 fps into sub-moa (three-shot) groups from a cold-clean barrel. I have fired several hundred rounds from this rifle with no problems of any kind (other than recoil).