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    No worries, here is the Maneaters of Kumaon https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.458957

    and Man eating leopard of rudraprag https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461459
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    Quote Originally Posted by gimp View Post
    there's no way i'm reading all of this but the .243 is good
    Excellent work
    You did this and I bought a new lawn mower.
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    Well that's my hut reading material sorted it out. All downloaded and sorted into iBooks on the iPad. Very clever! Thanks again Stug.
    @csmiffy I do like the look of these browning bullets, now I watch the video I realise I have seen these before but not in the flesh so to speak. I remember looking to see if they sold the projectiles as re-loading components and I believe I came up with a blank.

    So flying a kite here but has anybody tried these Browning BXR in any calibre? Maybe should ask the question in a new thread...
    Just...say...the...word

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    Quote Originally Posted by csmiffy View Post
    @Mooseman that's what I was thinking. From what Flyblown has suggested some of the earlier 243 heavier pills were balanced better and was hoping someone had tried some of these to confirm. @257weatherby good call. just be nice if they weren't pretty much the most expensive factory 243 ammo out there.
    If you want to get the best out of it, maybe you need a handloading buddy that does .243.

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    you've got to have friends to have a handloading buddy lol

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    Long story mate but it was aimed at my first 243 some years back

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flyblown View Post
    Would love to know the origin of that name.
    TJ had us enthralled with a story of three stags fighting with him in the middle, said stags being so worked up they still charged despite the fearsome report of the might .243 . If I recall correctly the last one was dropped point blank, as in with the barrel in its ear.

    I believe .243 was already dubbed a rat round, so the banter around TJ needing to stick it in the deers ear provided the final part and EBRG or ear burrowing rat gun was born.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tussock View Post
    TJ had us enthralled with a story of three stags fighting with him in the middle, said stags being so worked up they still charged despite the fearsome report of the might .243 . If I recall correctly the last one was dropped point blank, as in with the barrel in its ear.

    I believe .243 was already dubbed a rat round, so the banter around TJ needing to stick it in the deers ear provided the final part and EBRG or ear burrowing rat gun was born.
    I’ve wondered that as well. Interesting story


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    Quote Originally Posted by tiroatedson View Post
    I’ve wondered that as well. Interesting story


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    If TJ is here maybe he will cough up the original? Anyone know his username to tag him in?

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    I found this piece when reading "The mild but wild 243 Winchester"

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    RIP Harry F. 29/04/20

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    .303 British of course.

    As gentlemanly as the SOE.

    A gentlemanly calibre with a distinctive classic base rim, a line of fine fuggly utilitarian whores of guns to shove the cartridge into, and a (most!) gentlemanly Mk VII tumbling spitzer coming out the business end -- finely suited to stop berserker natives in their tracks, should they foolishly challenge their God-appointed Colonial Masters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cordite View Post
    .303 British of course.

    As gentlemanly as the SOE.

    A gentlemanly calibre with a distinctive classic base rim, a line of fine fuggly utilitarian whores of guns to shove the cartridge into, and a (most!) gentlemanly Mk VII tumbling spitzer coming out the business end -- finely suited to stop berserker natives in their tracks, should they foolishly challenge their God-appointed Colonial Masters.

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    I have this weird perversion where I actually want a .303, in a proper sporter. I have a .243 and I am seriously thinking about a .270

    Am I unwell?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tussock View Post
    I have this weird perversion where I actually want a .303, in a proper sporter. I have a .243 and I am seriously thinking about a .270

    Am I unwell?
    Nope.....just coming of age. Follow your desires
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tussock View Post
    I have this weird perversion where I actually want a .303, in a proper sporter. I have a .243 and I am seriously thinking about a .270

    Am I unwell?
    Long Tom MLE sporter, without the charger bridge which gives it beautiful lines, and for its cool right side thumb safety. Classic.

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    Handling it and speaking in your best Sean Connery voice: "Yesh, Alan Quatermain ish my name. Did you shay autoloaders? Who would be that unshporting?"

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    yup that is pretty

 

 

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