About to Ruin the 348W ammo market...

[mohavesam]

Or maybe not. It's all safe where it is.

Went to the Mason (MI) gun show a couple weeks ago and ran into a fine gentleman with failing eyesight who spoke Model 71. We ended up having a chat over breakfast last week and he related that he had a "bunch" of that 348 ammo with the Browning 71 on it. For sale. Cheap. Even a blind fool trips over a gold mine every now and then?

I'm not going to post what I paid & swapped (it had four wheels), but suffice it to say more than one milk crate full of the Winchester Browning boxes are now in the ammo safe! I also acquired a (another) Browning High-Grade rifle, a new/still-wrapped barrel and some parts from the Browning run back in the '80s. And a stock set, just because.

Now if I could just find a crate full of the heavy Barnes X-bullets...

[C. Cash]

Love it when that happens....congrats!

[Hobie]

[Pathfinder09]

PICS!!!!!!!!!

We gotta have PICS!!!!!

[kimwcook]

Talk about falling into that one. Sounds like you did good.

[Malamute]

What barrel did you get?

I'm looking for a 24" 348 Browning barrel to screw into my 86 rifle. It will be a 22" full mag, straight grip round barrel rifle in 348 cal with shotgun butt when it's done.

[KCSO]

Shortly after reading this I had a fellow calll and ask if I couold find him some 348. I checked Buffalo Arms and $63.00 a box plus shipping. WOW it's been a long time since I got any of that stuff. You done good!

[professor_cassidy]

I was at Clark Bros. gunshop near Warrenton, Va yesterday. Winchester silver box
348 Win, was $79.95. They had plenty.

Shawn

[mohavesam]

The barrel is a 20". I have a project action - Ruger No. 3 that someday will wear it, if I can find the right gunny. Sans barrel band?

I was and am sick when I see factory ammo marked up - even the ancient stuff - to $59, $69, and higher. I had resigned myself to reloading it. Maybe still ?

[Malamute]

You fell into a good deal, so if you don't want to reload, you don't have to.

I don't mind reloading, and I hate paying factory prices anyway, even on wal-mart price stuff (like $15/box). I've never shot a single round of factory in my 71, or most of my guns for that matter. I was paying $25/50 for brass, and about that for Hornady bullets per 100 when I first got my 71 a couple years ago. I have enough brass and probably bullets to last my lifetime easily. Have a few Barnes 250's loaded up for carry up where the bears live (which is about everywhere any more).

I bought one box of factory ammo for the 348, it was pretty old, perhaps the 40's? I just liked the box. I paid $20 for it.