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Hi Unregistered,
On July 29th, this site will be moving..! No, really - it's "moving" to another physical location - including servers, gateways, routers - everything - including my coffee cup...
So, from the date of July 29th through July 30 or 31 (shooting for these dates, but - as always, I'm at the mercy of my ISP who has to install the lines to the new location - and we actually get them running ;) ). But - this site, cloud servers and main web will be OFF LINE.
Now, please save these dates!! Please - don't be "that guy" who emails me on the 30th to tell me you "can't open the Parker Website". I'll already know it is offline - and also know that you are "that guy"...
I'll take this notice up and down over the next week or so - and leave it up during the final few days before shutting it off on the 29th..
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9.3 x 72 R.
It's definitely a "handloading only" proposition, as standard dimensions for this caliber (and probably others in Germany in the early days of the 1900's) didn't exist. (Standards were established later, but definitely not in 1904, when mine was made) As a result, an old RWS round will drop right into the chamber, but the rim is too thick to close the gun. Some shells (empty cases, that is...) came with the gun & they were formed/fabricated from Norma 9.3 x 74 R (oddly enough). The must have had the rims thinned, because they chamber perfectly. I've loaded these cases (filled to the top with 3F black powder) & hammered in a .358 pistol bullet. They shot well (ie: bullet stabilized & did not keyhole in the target), but accurace was not good. My bore slugs at 0.359, so that bullet was too small & too soft.
Some day I'll reload it right (with smokeless powder).
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05-19-2010, 07:25 PM
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What a great caliber. Ross Seifried reloaded the old black powder cartridges with 4198 and at about 40% or 60%, I can not remember, of the original charge. Do not hold me to this as it has been a long time since I was reloading black powder cartridges with smokeless. You might recut the rim on your rifle to accept the new cartridges.
Harry
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