Remington 1917 30-06 anyone?

Widow maker 223

Widow maker 223

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Anyone ever load or shoot one for accuracy? It has a 1/10 twist barrel. I was thinking some 180gr bullets to start off with to see what it likes. What powder do yall suggest?
 
Originally Posted By: Widow maker 223Anyone ever load or shoot one for accuracy? It has a 1/10 twist barrel. I was thinking some 180gr bullets to start off with to see what it likes. What powder do yall suggest?

Any of the 4350's are a good choice. They are very good rifles.



 
My ol man has one in really nice shape, totally unmolested. He wants to start ringing steel with it. I remember shooting it when i was 10yrs old, it kicked like a mule.

Im gonna have to look locally to see whats available. I see a lot of powders listed on Hodgdon. How do you think varget will do? Or H4895. I do have a little H335 on hand.
 
Originally Posted By: Widow maker 223My ol man has one in really nice shape, totally unmolested. He wants to start ringing steel with it. I remember shooting it when i was 10yrs old, it kicked like a mule.

Im gonna have to look locally to see whats available. I see a lot of powders listed on Hodgdon. How do you think varget will do? Or H4895. I do have a little H335 on hand.



They are usable, but on the fast side...
 
I got about a pound of 4064 sitting around doing nothing. Let me know if you wanna experiment with it. I think you are near me.
 
I built a 20" carbine many years ago, took every once of weight off of it that we could and it doted on 220gr Herters RN's. It was a deer slayer supreme in the woods of northern MN. Sold it to a bear hunter and he thought it was the perfect bear gun. It was stolen down on the San Carlos Res. while he was working there.
 
47 gr. H 4895 behind 150 gr. bullet duplicates M2 ball ammo; substitute 168 gr. SMK and you duplicate M 173 Match. Both perform well in most service rifles w/1:10 twist.

Regards,
hm
 
Lucky find, Widow maker.

Found some LC 62 M173 Match ammo in the early 90's that didn't shoot well at all. Really disappointing.

Found that electolysis had set in and "welded" some of the bullets to case necks. Set up a seating die to bump the bullets a couple of thousandths deeper to break the weld and accuracy improved considerably after running all rounds through that die. You could hear a crack on those rounds that had "welded".

Regards,
hm
 
It will be interesting to see how they shoot. I was excited when i seen the boxes in good shape. Might keep some for nostalgia. Were the bullets ones you had discolored at all from age, and from the reaction? These looked to be in really good shape.
 
I have some recent experience with a 1917 Eddystone that was sporterized. It had the original barrel that had been re-crowned. It seemed to like 165 Sierra GameKings and 168 MatchKings with H4895. With a little bedding work I think it was capable of 1 MOA, but I could not come to terms with the owner.
 
Thats for the info guys, going to look for some gamekings. You see a lot of them that have been sporterized. I couldnt bring myself to do something like that. This one is in really good shape, looking at it makes me wonder how many "heads" are on it.
 
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I have and shoot a 1917 Eddystone (made by Remington). It is one that is a real fine shooting piece. I have hand loaded mine with both the IMR 4064, and IMR 4350 and the powder is not the trouble, with 150 grain i used on whitetail, of with 165 grain or with 180 grain. All worked well in grouping my shots.
I think i had in IMR 4350, 58 grains for 150grain bullet, 56 grains for 165 grain bullet, and 54 grains for 180 grain bullet. all with regular large rifle primers, not magnumns. I never did the 220 grain round nose.
I wish you well. Good shooting. It's a fine gun.
 


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