Does anybody know what caliber this is?

[John Payne]

I have a bunch of these but cant figure out what caliber.

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[Knobgoblin]

Looks like 30 06 to me

 

[deadeye]

I have a bunch of these but cant figure out what caliber.

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most likely 30-06. would need to have measurements but you can check yourself.

 

[Knobgoblin]

 

[Stomper]

Check out that deformity at the base of the neck….

 

[homeuser6]

looks like a fetterneck

 

[Knobgoblin]

I've seen a fair amount of reloads using military match brass ( auctions , estate sales)

Soft point projectiles aren't correct either. Probably wouldn't fire those.

 

[solv3nt]

Looks like my Milsurp M2.

 

[Richo877]

Just chamber it into everything you've got until you find Cinderella

 

[ZigZagZeke]

Whatever it is, the case is a Lake City, Match case. Looks like .30-06.

 

[Certaindeaf]

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Big squirrel medicine.

 

[Yarome]

Soft point projectiles aren't correct either. Probably wouldn't fire those.

Definately reloads and that neck buldge would give me even more pause. Disassemble for parts.

 

[Certaindeaf]

Just chamber it into everything you've got until you find Cinderella

Like a hotdog in a hallway.

 

[ma96782]

Just chamber it into everything you've got until you find Cinderella

Aloha, Mark

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Just chamber it into everything you've got until you find Cinderella

And....that's when the paternity suit happens.....
'Course that is also where we get a son of a gun...
Andy

 

[ZigZagZeke]

The main point is that we have no way of knowing for sure if those are factory or reloads. A lot of people don't like shooting reloads of unknown origin because you don't know whether they were reloaded properly. You don't need a "KaBoom" in your life. I learned that lesson when I was about 16. My dad had a Winchester 88 lever action deer rifle in .243 Win. Kind of a rare combination. He had had some reloads done by one of the more reputable gunsmiths in the area. My buddies and I were going ground squirrel shooting on a large ranch. I took dad's .243 along and some of his supposedly high speed, high accuracy reloaded ammo. The first round I touched off kicked like hell, the empty case didn't want to come out of the chamber, and there was a black ring around the primer. I thought, OK, I'll try one more. The second empty case stuck too, and this time the primer fell out.

When we returned the ammo to the gunsmith for inspection he determined that he had grabbed the wrong powder when loading those cases, and he'd used a fast burning pistol powder instead of a slow burning rifle powder, which had produced higher than normal pressures in the chamber. It just so happened that the Winchester 88 had a revolving bolt with locking lugs, even though it was a lever action, so it didn't blow up. I have been leery of firing other people's reloads ever since.

 

[Yarome]

The main point is that we have no way of knowing for sure if those are factory or reloads.

We kinda do, actually. By the year stamp, LC wouldn't have been factory loading with soft points. FMJ only, AFAIK. That neck buldge too didn't come out of any factory.

 

[gmerkt]

Check out that deformity at the base of the neck….

I don't see a problem there. What I'm seeing is a sizing die that wasn't dialed all the way back to the starting fold of the bottleneck. Maybe a neck sizing die was used?

 

[DirectDrive]

Lake City 1965 manufacture 30-06

 

[DLS]

The "neck buldge" is common when partial neck sizing. If done right it helps concentricy, at least in theory.

Soft point bullet and resized brass guarentee these are reloads.