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Cat_Whisperer Frequent Elocutionist Offline No 1, 9.3x74R Posts: 3904 Location: Mountains of Virginia Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: FWIW - ctg conversion for Cadet Reply #15 - Jan 6^th, 2025 at 3:23pm	Print Post
	Dellet wrote on Jan 5^th, 2025 at 7:20pm: 32 WSL has a thinner rim than 32-20, and base diameter is only about .004-5” less at .348”. It’s easier to use 25-20 brass than 32-20 to make it. Sounds like it’s chambered as marked. ONLY in thickness of the rim. A new 32-20 chambers, which is larger in base dia. than either the 32SL or the 327FedMag.

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Barrabruce Junior Member Offline Posts: 76 Location: Australia Joined: Mar 30^th, 2017	Re: FWIW - ctg conversion for Cadet Reply #16 - Jan 15^th, 2025 at 10:04am	Print Post
	Sounds like it’s about time to do a chamber cast and see what it actually is and looks like. Keep it coming.


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Cat_Whisperer Frequent Elocutionist Offline No 1, 9.3x74R Posts: 3904 Location: Mountains of Virginia Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: FWIW - ctg conversion for Cadet Reply #17 - Jan 15^th, 2025 at 7:04pm	Print Post
	Barrabruce wrote on Jan 15^th, 2025 at 10:04am: Sounds like it’s about time to do a chamber cast and see what it actually is and looks like. Keep it coming. COLD here for a week or two. Wait 'till the January thaw - or - skunk breeding season (early February).

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Schuetzendave Frequent Elocutionist Offline Retired Ex-Shooter Posts: 4079 Location: St. Albert, Alberta Joined: Jan 28^th, 2005	Re: FWIW - ctg conversion for Cadet Reply #18 - Jan 16^th, 2025 at 8:00am	Print Post
	The Alberta Schuetzen Guild doesn't shoot at the range when it is colder than -40 F. I converted my .310 Cadet to a .218 Bee RKS barrel. The .310 had been previously modified to shoot .32 Winchester Specials and the recoil was too much for such a light rifle. The rifle was purchased from Ken Ritchie who formed the Alberta Schuetzen Guild with Harvey Trace, Cliff Henderson Ron Smith and Ralph McDonald. My boss Cliff Henderson got me into the Schuetzen game 35 years ago and provided me the scope from a fellow AFS employee Sam's estate who tested ammuntion and rifles for the US Military. Cliff was an avid fan of the .218 Bee and it is an excellent varmint rifle. Ron Smith has been a shooting buddy for decades and has made me numerous barrrels and custom rifles over the years so this rifle has many memories of fellow shooters in it's construction. And it is also set up to use Anschutz sights based on recommendations by Lones Wigger to me years ago to use these iron sights on my rifles.
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Cat_Whisperer Frequent Elocutionist Offline No 1, 9.3x74R Posts: 3904 Location: Mountains of Virginia Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: FWIW - ctg conversion for Cadet Reply #19 - Jan 16^th, 2025 at 9:59am	Print Post
	Schuetzendave wrote on Jan 16^th, 2025 at 8:00am: ... I converted my .310 Cadet to a .218 Bee RKS barrel. ... Ooooooooo. Nice~!!

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Cat_Whisperer Frequent Elocutionist Offline No 1, 9.3x74R Posts: 3904 Location: Mountains of Virginia Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: FWIW - ctg conversion for Cadet Reply #20 - Jan 24^th, 2025 at 3:50pm	Print Post
	Here are six pix of how I'm thinning the rims (so the swinging block will close). The collar is a drill bit stop ring (5/16) that just happens to fit very well; doesn't take but minimal tension to lock the case to the mandrel. The mandrel is a home made one for the Wilson series - used to expand to MY desired dimension to expand the neck for cast bullets.

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