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    Posted: January 11 2018 at 6:11pm
My buddies are mostly speed freaks. Magnums. One even uses a 338 Mag for deer. To each his own, I guess. I got caught up in that a decade ago and bought a .300 Win Mag. After reloading 180 Grand Slams with 80g of H1000 crono'ed at just around 2900 fps, I think it worked out to 3 or 4 bucks a round. Didn't kill deer any better than my 150 gr Sierra's with 42 hrs of 4895 going 2500 fps. My point is a Lee Enfield will never be an accurate 3000 fps weapon. But it will drop any game on the planet.
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You got that right!
Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually
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i rather like my 45 colts at roughly 650fps - accurate at range needed and the ding leaves a dent , about equal to the webley/enfield revolvers , 
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I had read this a long time ago.
The Lee Enfield rifle chambered for the .303 British round,has killed more big game animals then any other rifle,past or present.
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On several continents and continues to do so.
Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually
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..& it's "ruggedness & simplicity" will never let you down!
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I reckoned if it would bring down a ME 109, it'd do me!   Wink
 
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Didn't the 303 British round take down the Red Baron???
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Yes, but it was a Lewis gunner I think, Honks.
 
 
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& now they say it was the Aussies that did it from the ground
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Pukka, afew years ago I watched a Nova program on the shooting down of the Red Baron. All scientific and stuff. This show believes he was downed by a single round fired from a 303 British Calibre Lewis gun on the ground. And yes Hoadie, apparently it was an Australian MG crew. This was their findings. God save the King!!!
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Hoadie and Tonks,
 
What you heard is what I heard as well.
 
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..That's cuz we listen with Canadian ears
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did not the 303 aircraft machine guns save the skys of london durring the blitz , 

ok , now my head is hearing john belushi sayin "OVER ? was it over when the germans bombed pearl harbor ?" ..........i gotta stop this its driving me nuts , hearing movie lines and hummin alice's restaurant is not how i wanted to finish my day , ill never get to sleep ,
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What u bin smoking A Sq?
The RAF also fitted Spits with 20mm.
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no ceegars since it got cold , a couple brews but a really long tiring week and mind is wanting to divert from the stress i think , looking for pleasant thoughts , just dont need a nagging song or story line to get hung up in there really , 

but it beats rehashing the arguments of the week in the middle of the night pee break , 
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