dev";p="39381 wrote:But Shahid how is the 315 for average shooting needs like taking care of a pest boar or shooting a few targets now and then. Does it have a scope rail? Guess it should be able to handle this much atleast.
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Hi dev, I have got no experience with Indian wild pigs (sus scrofa cristatus), but they are the same species as our German wild boar (sus scrofa scrofa), only slightly smaller. Now, I ought to have some experience with shooting wild boar. In the hunting grounds under my direct supervision, about 60 square kilometers, 360 of them were shot last year, with the total German harvest being well over half a million in 2007. Most pigs are shot in woodland at ranges well under 100 yards/meters, a shot at over 150 y/m borders on the ridiculous!
A fairly soft 8mm bullet of 225grs at 2200fps is rated as the near ideal boar medicine over here, much more reliable a killer then a 30-06 150grs high speed load, so I think the ballistics of the .315 IOF to be equally well suited. Both hunter and pig would be hard pressed to notice a difference! Well, I tend to prefer the long, heavy bullet of high sectional density and moderate velocity of the 8x50R/.315 IOF to any high velocity load for brush hunting. It will kill more reliably from most angles without destroing as much meat as a high speed bomb. Well, a .375 Nitro Express (270@2150, not Magnum) or a .450 Nitro for Black (350@ 1900) are even better....
As to scoping a Lee type action: Here is an example how they did it in merry old England in the pre-WWII days. I have just posted two photos of my BSA made .303 Lee-Speed rifle in my personal album, click the "Album" button below. It has got a 2 3/4 Zeiss "Zielklein" scope in an -also German made Akah- quick detachable side rail mount, with the mount base screwed and soft soldered to the left action wall. Not the slimmest or neatest arrangement, but it works! Of course, the useles dust cover of the Lee-Speed was removed.