I bought a beautiful .303 British single shot rifle at DSC auction (well. Dr. Scott bid on it for me, so I guess technically he bought it) that was built by members of the American Custom Gunmakers Guild and donated, Truly a masterpiece. Some would stick it in their safe and take it out to admire and show off, I will do this, but I also will be shooting it. The rifle was regulated with the traditional 215 gr load, which I could not find bullets for, so I loaded 50 cases with 174 grain bullets to about 80% of maximum, pretty mild load. I set up a target at 50 yards and shot from a bench with a good rest and produced the group seen in the photo (assuming it attached). By my measurement, it is a less than .75" group with iron sights! The fact that is 4" below my aiming point make no difference to me...this was just to see if it would shoot and I'll work on getting it to point of aim soon. The ACGM members did a very good job with this one!

Small groups are good, but We want to see pics of the rifle! Please.

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Originally posted by lee440:
Small groups are good, but We want to see pics of the rifle! Please.

Ha! I will post a few pictures as soon as I can manage.

Waiting in anticipation.

So am I. The .303 deserves more respect than it seems to get these days.

Here are a few photos of the rifle, I'll try and take some better photos and get them posted as well.

Wow Karl, that's a nice rifle! Beautiful wood, tasteful engraving

on a great action. Plus the 303 British is a nice caliber for almost

all North American game! Great purchase & congrats!

Wow! That is a beautiful rifle indeed. I should think it might want to see some african plains game. Cheers luke

Karl, you can get those 215 grain bullets from Hawk Bullets. Great bullets too. cheers luke

Karl, that rifle would seem to be a masterpiece in every detail.
Wish I still had my Corbin swaging press and dies, with which I made .312 225s and I would send you 100. Someone on AR bought the whole outfit from me 30-plus years ago.
Lest anyone doubt the effectiveness of the .303 in practiced hands, find a copy of Edouard Foa's "After Big Game in Central Africa." It will make you a beleiver.

Thanks to everyone who commented, I do plan on taking it to Africa this summer, I will post a few more detailed photos as time allows as well as mention the gunmakers who contributed, in my opinion they did a very good job!

Looks like the rib is inletted for Talley scopemounts. Awesome rifle in a great caliber.

Yes, the rib is cut for mounts, not sure which mounts it takes but will find out.

Righteous! What Action?

It’s a recreated Fraser action, I’ll post full details tomorrow.

What a beautiful rifle!

Magnificent!!! Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful rifle. I would assume a Steve Earle action.

Now THAT is a wonderful rifle!

I had a Fraser in 303 for a time but for some reason I cannot remember, I sold it.

A stunning rifle and glad to see it's a shooter too! Congrats on a wonderful legacy rifle...

Karl,

That is a very classy rifle.

Truly a lovely Rifle ....
From the looks of that 3 shot group I would shoot it as is
My last 2 trips to Africa I left the scoped Rifles behind
Just Wow enjoy

Amazing, beautiful rifle!

It looks like you got a winner, Karl.

Thanks! It really is a nice rifle, I now have the bullet weight it was regulated with and will hopefully have it shooting much closer to the aiming point very soon. I’ll be seeing if any of the guys coming to the little AR big bore shoot want to give it a try. I bet they do!

Does that rifle have duel extractors?