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<blockquote data-quote="Cold Trigger Finger" data-source="post: 961266" data-attributes="member: 56732"><p>A very good friend of mine has a 300 AI that he made when his pre 64 model 70 in 300 H+H kept creating head separations in around 1967 . He just had the chamber reamed to the Ackley Improved chamber. The smith did a great job and didn't have to touch the headspace. I developed a hunting load for it with 7828 and 200 gr X bullets. As I remember I kept the velocity at just over 2800 fps and it was printing less than 3/4" groups. He had restocked it himself with a nice blank from Fagen. As a general rule I Hate 30 caliber rifles. But I really like that rifle. It is just a safe queen but some day I think he will hunt it again. I know that I could have got more velocity from it but that was good performance and he could shoot it OK. He is not as recoil insensitive as I am. I think it will make for a great rifle for moose and if he gets a bear after him it is about as good as you can get from the 30 cal. </p><p> He hand filed the dog knot off the visible side of the barrel and hand filed a concave in the bolt handle to clear the scope bell. He is a real craftsman and did beautiful work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cold Trigger Finger, post: 961266, member: 56732"] A very good friend of mine has a 300 AI that he made when his pre 64 model 70 in 300 H+H kept creating head separations in around 1967 . He just had the chamber reamed to the Ackley Improved chamber. The smith did a great job and didn't have to touch the headspace. I developed a hunting load for it with 7828 and 200 gr X bullets. As I remember I kept the velocity at just over 2800 fps and it was printing less than 3/4" groups. He had restocked it himself with a nice blank from Fagen. As a general rule I Hate 30 caliber rifles. But I really like that rifle. It is just a safe queen but some day I think he will hunt it again. I know that I could have got more velocity from it but that was good performance and he could shoot it OK. He is not as recoil insensitive as I am. I think it will make for a great rifle for moose and if he gets a bear after him it is about as good as you can get from the 30 cal. He hand filed the dog knot off the visible side of the barrel and hand filed a concave in the bolt handle to clear the scope bell. He is a real craftsman and did beautiful work. [/QUOTE]
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