Posted on 10/30/2018 6:25:11 AM PDT by C19fan
I have a P-17 that was sporterized in the late ‘50s or so with a turned down barrel rechambered to .300 H&H, receiver shaved and new stock. Been changed by me to cock on open and a Timney trigger. Shoots nice groups with 200 gr Nosler Partitions out of that old barrel.
You will want to recheck your historical database.
The British were looking into a .276 caliber cartridge during WW1, not .280. The .280 was the caliber they were looking into after WW2 and the caliber they briefly introduced the post war EM2 rifle in before the whole NATO caliber debacle started.
The Rem 700 is a simplified Mauser 98 action and was based on earlier attempts to make a Mauser 98 cheaper and simpler for more efficient mass production. It is not based on the Enfield P-17 per the designer of the rifle. The 721 the 700 was based on was a clean sheet re-design of the Mauser action to take advantage of the post-War advances in. Mass machining and production. It was not economically sensible to adapt the model 30 to the new tech so they had to start over.
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