re: Looking to have a rifle built..update

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Have the chamber honed to Ackley Improved! Make it super cool

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Well, I'm late to the party, but since you handload, I also was also going to suggest the Ackley Improved version of the 257 if you were going to get a new barrel, I used to load so 257 Roberts ammo for a friend, When he took a grandson deer hunting, he liked for him and the grandson to carry rifles chambered in the same round, the 257 Roberts. He was going to take them on a hunt in TX at a ranch that did not allow Nosler Ballistic Tip bullets (this was in early 2000) so I worked up a youth load using the 90 gr Sierra HP. They killed a bunch of deer w/ the load through the years until they grew into the 308.

Keep us updated w/ the gun project. Is Roberts brass hard to find?