Thank you for the input gentlemen. I am going to have to get a hold of some Go/No Go gauges to check the headpsace, I hope that one round of Federal didn't set the lugs back. Fired Remington cases after the incident measure correctly so maybe I got lucky. I certainly don't want to have to mess around with it now that it's shooting so well. And yes, I am reticent to use any of the four boxes they are sending me.
Steve, JES reboring is
http://www.35caliber.com/, the Ocumpaugh brothers, Jesse and Wyatt. I did some research on reboring and they seemed to get good reviews.
I sent them the gun, they had it in their possession for 10 days before returning it, they charged $225 for the service
including return shipping, and the gun shoots way better than I deserve to shoot it. They don't do email but do return phone calls. I have nothing but praise for them.
They sent the gun directly to our own bpgunsmith, Brian Perazone who drilled and tapped for the one piece Buehler mount.
I didn't realize the Buehler would be so long. I was planning on a modern Zeiss fixed 4X but it was 1/4" too short between the bells. I have about 25 scopes and only one fit, an old steel bodied Weaver 3x9. It was picky about eye relief and I surely needed a brighter scope at 5:30pm in the North Maine Woods. Luckily the shot was under 100yds, 3X was fine and I had plenty of time to take the shot. But I'm going to find a modern scope with 6" of straight tube to mount, maybe a Leupold 3X or a Burris Fullfield.
Scope problems aside I wanted to take the moose with a classic weapon and while the M30 isn't as pretty as the 1903's we see around here I sort of like them, especially the safety. My back up gun was Sav. 99 in .358 so I was committed...
