Just picked this up Sunday at the Woodstock gun show. It may have been military once, but with the checkering on the stock I think is sporterized.
File comment: .297/230 stamped on the receiver
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Does anyone know what it is? It has .297/230 stamped on the receiver and some (crown) B (crown) U (crown) G stamps as well. And what looks like U,3gr71/2.GJP m/71 on the right side of the barrel just above the stock, and what looks like 25 plus 3 illegible marks immediately below(hidden by the stock). (The J and the P are run together - i.e. only one vertical line)
The hand grip is obviously added after the fact.
Once I can find out what rifle it is I may be able to find out how to remove the bolt.
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Donnelly's Handloader's Manual of Cartridge
conversions doesn't list this caliber but an online search turns up many references to 297/230 Morris (short and Long) but none of the pictures look like this gun. I haven't slugged the barrel yet or cerrosafe cast the chamber. I'd like to get the bolt out and clean it first.
If it is a collector item I should leave it alone, but if it isn't, and I can make some ammo, and it shoots OK, then I'd like to clean it up, reblue it and refinish the stock. It's kinda cute and it has a neat peep sight.
It is about 40" long butt to muzzle.
SW
