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delmarskid posted this 03 March 2024

I’ve had a 375 Whelen Improved for some years now. Today I mounted a J. C. Higgins 2.5x El Paso Weaver on it because I could. Anyway I dead centered a golf ball at 175 yards off the bags today in a 30 mph quartering wind. Tickled the puddin’ right out of me. I held about a foot over and 2” right . I’m thinking it’s not a fluke because I was making flattened soda cans do the Lindy Hop too.

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Brodie posted this 03 March 2024

You have to love the way those golf balls just disappear when you hit them don't you?

B.E.Brickey

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MP1886 posted this 04 March 2024

I’ve had a 375 Whelen Improved for some years now. Today I mounted a J. C. Higgins 2.5x El Paso Weaver on it because I could. Anyway I dead centered a golf ball at 175 yards off the bags today in a 30 mph quartering wind. Tickled the puddin’ right out of me. I held about a foot over and 2” right . I’m thinking it’s not a fluke because I was making flattened soda cans do the Lindy Hop too.
What bullet and load were you using?  I use to shoot golf balls with hollowbase wadcutter using my Model 14 S&S 38 Special.  They flew pretty far too! I could retrieve them and shoot them again. The bullet just left a scuff mark on the ball.  I bet your golf ball was destroyed!

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delmarskid posted this 04 March 2024

Good morning, I loaded the Lyman 245g and 15g of Alcan 5. The golfball has a neat little hole all the way through it and that’s about it. I don’t own a chronograph but guessing from trajectory I would say it’s about 1500 fps.

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MP1886 posted this 04 March 2024

Thanks, that's some old powder. Interesting you found the ball and it has a hole through it. Big difference from a 38 wadcutter huh? LOL  

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RustyZipper posted this 05 March 2024

I found with my 357 load the golf balls had holes in them. With mild 38 special target loads the golf balls were animated and lots of fun. Be Well Brothers, RZ.

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mashburn posted this 06 March 2024

What is your .375 Whelen Imp. rifle based on?

Mashburn

David a. Cogburn

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delmarskid posted this 06 March 2024

Good morning, it’s built on a Turkish contract CZ 98. I don’t remember if it’s a 28 or 24. The barrel is an Adams Bennet from Midway. Timmey trigger with safety and a CZ stock from Numrich. It feeds spire point bullets beautifully but the flat nose bullets hang up on the base of the chamber from the left side of the magazine. The right side works perfectly. I’ve opened the rails . If you have any suggestions I am all ears.

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mashburn posted this 07 March 2024

When I see a rifle like that appear on a post, I just have to inquire. Your JC Higgins scope, made in El Passo, also caught my eye. I have some of those laying around. As a matter of fact, the first squirrel that I bagged was shot with a Model 31 JC Higgins .22 rifle. I think I was 9 years old or 10 years old, at the maximum. Thanks for that post.

In reference to your question, about the rifle not feeding the flat nose bullets, I can't say, that is something that you have to see in real life to try and figure out what is going on. I have never worked with a cartridge with such straight walls and a little shoulder, in a bolt action rifle. But I have been driven to a point of insanity trying to get a conversion to feed properly. I had a new stainless steel Santa Barbara action that I sold and before I shipped it, I was going to make sure it would function a 30-06 cartridge and guess what, it wouldn't. I didn't want to start grinding on a new action and for some unknown reason, I stuck a milled 03 follower in it, and it worked properly. Hang in there and I bet you will figure it out. 

I've been putting off building a .35 Whelen Imp. Maybe I'll live long enough to see it complete.

Mashburn

David a. Cogburn

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RicinYakima posted this 07 March 2024

FWIW, every new Mauser action I have worked with came from the factory with a follower for a X57 cartridge. Changing to an '03 follower allowed for proper feeding in 280 AI, 30/06 and 35 Whelen. 

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delmarskid posted this 07 March 2024

I’m going to get digging for an 03 follower. I know I have a tin one.

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mashburn posted this 08 March 2024

Hello delmarskid, 

I don't think that the follower change will solve your feeding problem with the .375 Imp. cartridge. To make the straight walled case feed with a blunt bullet properly, is to make the front of the cartridge raise up quicker and turn right a little. In other words, the front end of the cartridge has to be raised, or the head has to be lowered. you might possibly thin the center ridge of the follower. I mean take a little off of the left side of the follower ridge. I would start by thinning about 2/3 of the way back from the front of the follower to the rear. And again, if you take too much off it might cause the left cartridge to jump out of the mag.

This is one of those things that you have to look at in person. You said you had opened the left rail up.

I hope you get it working, and again I'm guessing in the dark.

Mashburn

David a. Cogburn

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RicinYakima posted this 08 March 2024

That is exactly what you will get; 30/06 on the left and 7X57 on the right. 

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delmarskid posted this 11 March 2024

I tried the follower swap and it brought me no joy. My Springfield absolutely inhaled them. The Model 70 did not feed. Both of them have a coned breach . The Mauser does not.

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