Gentleman,
The rest of the story...
Seems everything hinged on whether the rifle firing pin would set off a rifle primer. Thanks to good friend and molder of young minds Tom Hall who turned a 30-30 case to the proper diameter and then thinned it down to .036 by taking metal off the front of the rim. My rim cut is .040 deep so the primer was about .004 below the rim. She fired right away and left a nice mark in the primer, a good solid hit.
This is a no name drilling, no marking at all except the proof marks, an E.W. and an R.R. It's going to be a hunting gun and I want things as simple as possible so I'm just going to have the chamber reamed to the Normalised version so I can use modern ammo and cases.
No one local seems to have a 9.3x72R reamer and the cost of having it done along with rental is about the same as buying a reamer so it would be more cost effective to buy a reamer than to ship the barrels out to have it done unless one of the members can make a suggestion. I was quoted $150 to clean the chamber up because the reamer needed to be rented.
I know some of you may disagree and if the gun had a makers name on it I probably wouldn't alter it but as it is I may even open up the right barrel choke.
