I would like to put a 358 Hoosier together.

I am looking at using a Savage 11. I would like to take a 358 Winchester barrel and cut .215 off of the breach end and use it.

The 358 Hoosier is .215 shorter than the 358 Winchester.

Will I have to have .215 threads cut back in the barrel for the lock nut? Or is there enough extra threads on the barrel to not have to bother?

Thank you all for your time.

you should be able to reuse the barrel, but measure a couple times first...

i have to ask, why? the 358 win is one of my favorite calibers, and if you want less performance, just use win 760 rather than 748

In Indiana we can't use normal rifle rounds.

The case can be no longer than 1.8". So you end up with wild cats. The 358 Hoosier is just a 358 Winchester cut down .215" to make it fit the 1.8 law.

I think it was four years ago we couldn't use any thing but slug guns or hand guns. I have used both.

Then it changed to allow pistol rounds in rifles.

Now this past year they passed the 1.8 case law and said it has to have a bullet no smaller than .358.

There is no reason for any of it. It is the law and that is what we have to deal with.

Across the Ohio river in Kentucky they hunt with rifles and they don't kill any more hunters than in Indiana.

I think the real thought is that up around Indianapolis where it is so flat they are afraid that some one will shoot at a deer with some thing like a 300mag and kill some one in the city before it falls to the ground.

Thank you for explaining. Dumb law.

I have to get permits from the IDNR all the time for our work. If the fish and game people use the same illogic as the DNR folks, it's a miracle you got rifle rounds at all. Congratulations!

it's no miracle. they are considered pistol rounds, or something like that.

:/