Originally Posted by
Griff Murphey
Suspect you will have issues with tipping of your stack of rounds. Good luck trying to rebuild the follower and spring if you add a spacer. Not bluuudy likely....
Had experience with two guns, one was an 03A3 with the barrel set back and rechambered for .308. Even with only 5 rds., feeding was unpredictable, and they needed to be positioned one at a time in the center of the follower.. Not loaded with a stripper clip. Usually in the string somewhere the top round would drag the next one blew it forward as it was being chambered and the whole mess tipped over. Had an FN-49 converted 7mm with an 03A3 barrel, it would dependably feed maybe 7 stacked carefully by hand in the center of the follower, not loaded by stripper clip.
Others have described rip roaring success feeding .308's in rechambered 1903 variants. Ich nicht.
Someone once said on here long ago the 1903 feed lips were made for 3006 and the shorter, fatter 308 would cause problems.
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