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Here in the US, the 307 is a lever action rifle cartridge,
designed to have the same case capacity as the 308
Winchester, AKA, 7.62 NATO. The case capacity is close to
the 308, but is not quite as strong as the 308 case.
The lever action Winchester, Marlin, and Rossi rifles can
not handle the pressures that a good bolt action rifle can.
Nor, for that matter, a Ruger falling block #1, or #3. I
don't completely understand, but there seems to
be some quirk in your law that allows for a rimmed 307,
but has a restriction of some kind on the 308. If I had
to choose for simplicity and accuracy, I would choose a
Ruger #1 chambered for the 307 rather than going
to a bolt action in the same cartridge. The TC contender
is also a good candidate. Here in the US more and more
shooters are going to what we call a swap barrel arrangement.
We can go to a match with one rifle that fits us
well, and then simply switch out among several barrels
chambered for different cartridges, depending on the
different events at the match. Cast bullet shooters
probably do this more than other shooters. You can carry a
veritable arsenal in much less space. There are a
limited of number of cartridge families which all share
the same head size that you don't even have to worry about
changing the extraction set up as long as you swap among
cartridges in that family. One man I knew had swap barrels
for 30-06, 308, 22-250, 7X57MM, 243, and about 5 more in
that family. Just screw them in or out to the witness mark,
and tap in the wedge. They are accurate too. The TC
Contender arrangement is even simpler. I have several Model
99 Savage takedown rifles that you can do this with. About
40 years ago, Mauser made a rifle on this principle. Ugliest
bolt action rifle I ever saw, but it was accurate, and you
could switch to dozens of different caliber's. You Britts
could drive your gun police crazy doing that. Just call it
an extra barrel, like on a shot gun, but shoot say, 25
different cartridges.
Ed Crooks
Meeker, Colorado
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Multi-calibre guns aren't that popular here because you need
a seperate "good reason" for each seperate barrel. (unless
the gun is multi-barrelled like a Gatling or something).
.308s are legal here, but there is a quirk in Spanish law
so that they cannot have semi-auto .308s, so they have
FALs for example in .307. We can't have centrefire
semi-autos at all. I was just wondering if it were
possible to take a Model 94 in .307 and convert it
to a box-fed .308, but in reality it makes more sense
just to get a .308 BLR and adapt it to use M14 mags
or something similar.
Steve.
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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