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I just noticed that an online dealer (Joe Salter) has a box of .310 Cadet ctgs for sale. These are hard find in any form now but what interested me in these is that they are factory-loaded hollowpoints.

Was the .310 used much Down Under as a hunting ctg. after the release of the Cadet Corps rifles to the public? Were there other rifles made in this caliber?

I guess as 80 years old I qualify as "Grandpappy" and I killed several Columbian Blacktails with a .32-20 Savage bolt action (before I discovered that it was an illegal caliber in CA at that time!). During and after the Depression and WWII there were many country people in rural CA who had only one "real rifle" and it was often a .32-20 or 25-20. They got used for everything a rifle could be used for. I suspect that might have been the case with the.310 in OZ once the training rifles were surplussed.

Parabola. it was a 23C with a Redfield receiver sight. MY grandfather's "coyote gun," although we had no coyotes then--all poisoned along with most other predators and scavengers: Your tax dollars at work....

The average Blacktail "meat buck" in our area ran around 80# with the blood and guts out. I wonder what they taste like now that their main food is wine grape vines and grapes?

I replaced the 23C with a much newer (1947) 23C that i still have and use. Slick little guns, although I much prefer a Utica-made Savage 219 .25-20 single shot that I also use.

I have no doubt that Jeffrey's could improve on the handling and looks of most Savage centerfire bolt actions of the mid-20th century! Especially the 3-- series from the 322 to the 340, which are notably clunky looking. But couldn't BSA or somebody else come up with a medium power bolt repeater of "English Make"? I suspect your Jeffrey's 23 Hornet may be a very rare bird!