MY Sporterized Parker Hale Deluxe Sporter

I contacted on of my my Aussie buddies & guess what the trail led right back here!

plus this:

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I just made a quick phone call to old Ken. Now Ken is in his late 80s and although he can't remember where he left his keys or that he put the milk in the cupboard and not the fridge he can remember the 50s and 60s very well.

He told me that the .303-35 cartridge is basically the .35 Winchester. So based on that I did a bit of internet searching and found this info:

https://www.chuckhawks.com/35Win.htm

The .35 Winchester cartridge was introduced in 1903 in the Model 1895 lever action rifle. It was intended as the medium bore cartridge to complement the big bore .405 Winchester and the small bore .30-40 Krag in the Model 95.

Winchester factory loads drove a 250 grain soft point bullet at a muzzle velocity (MV) of 2195 fps with muzzle energy (ME) of 2650 ft. lbs. The .35 Winchester proved capable of humanely taking most of the world's thin-skinned game at moderate ranges.

Reloaders with serviceable .35 Winchester rifles can make reloadable cases from .30-40 Krag brass. The neck of .35 Winchester brass formed from .30-40 cases will be a little short, but this will not cause a problem. Because of its box magazine, the Model 95 can use bullets of any shape, including spitzer bullets, and it is not necessary to crimp the case mouth. Loading data can be found in old editions of the Lyman Reloading Handbook and also in Cartridges of the World. Medium burning rate powders such as IMR 4895, IMR 3031, IMR 4064, and IMR 4320 are good choices for the .35 Win.

My old 43rd edition of the Lyman Reloading Handbook shows the following data for jacketed bullets.

• 47.0 grains of 4320 gives a 200 grain bullet a MV of 2225 fps, and 52.0 grains of the same powder gives a MV of 2475 fps.
• 46.0 grains of IMR 4320 can drive a 220 grain bullet at a MV of 2150 fps, and 51.0 grains of 4320 can achieve a MV of 2395 fps.
• 45.0 grains of IMR 4320 can achieve a MV of 2045 fps with a 250 grain bullet, and 50.0 grains of 4320 can drive 250 grain bullets to a MV of 2295 fps, 100 fps faster than the Winchester factory load".

Here from two Aussie posters: (In the link above)

Filling in the blanks here and what will result will be my loads for this rifle that I can post here.

I have a Chrony so once I get to desired velocities it will be good.

Appears what I was trying to post in my last reply didn't work. Here's my 2nd attempt.

From the Ideal Handbook no 38.

I emailed them twice over the last week, but never got a response.

So apparently the 11 pages of stories on CDN about that place was accurate.

It is a shame when people take over a great business and run it into the ground. I think the previous owners would have done the public a service by just closing the doors. And the Epps' name would not be sullied by the new owners.

 

I had a favorite restaurant locally that I had been eating at since 1976.  It recently changed hands and the new owner immediately started changing things, and then since nobody was coming so he changed the entire format from Philly Cheese Steaks, which had worked great for 50 years, to Tacos El Diablo?. Who wants to eat Tacos made by the Devil?  Nobody is coming now either.

All they had to do, was not Change Anything! The business was well established and ran perfectly,, 

but NO!

Life goes on.

Randy

Change is what you make of it Geoff, good or bad. I was clinically dead for a total of 9 minutes, my left leg below the knee was internally severed, my right femur was shattered, my pelvis was fractured into three pieces, my right lung collapsed, every rib broken, my left eye socket was shattered, and I had retrograde amnesia for 21 days all because I decided to help a fellow truck driver who had jack-knifed his truck one night. After 7 years it is still hard to walk and I have constant pain below the waist. I am permanently disabled, and my sister, dad, and mom have disowned me because I did not give them any of the settlement money I received which was just enough to get me a used Ram truck. Am I mad at the driver of the SUV that hit me? Absolutely Not. Am I upset that my career as a professional over the road truck driver ended that night? Not in the slightest.  Change came to me as brutally as it could come, changing everything about me and who I was. I wake up now and am extremely thankful for being given one more day on this rock to be with my daughters and my fiance. I get to shoot some No4Mk1 Enfield rifles too!...

I was pretty shocked at the 11 pages of negative comments about the place on Canadian Gun Nutz I figured that if there are that much negative stuff some or most must be true. 

They were of no help to me and even lied that they had answered my email which hasn't shown up yet.

I have managed to put some load data together that I think will get me started. I still don't have a place to shoot so all of it is on hold for the time being.

Shamu was a big help! ;>)

Randy

This same manual gives max load of 43 gr IMR 4895 for a 180 gr bullet in the .303 British vs 54 gr max in .358 Win for the same weight bullet.  And, I don’t know if the 4895 you buy today is the same as it was 50 plus years ago.  

Perhaps use .303 load data and extrapolate back on bullet weight?