I have a traditions Evolution 50 cal. I use 100 grns of Shockys gold powder and a 350 grn bullet I cast using a lee mold. I took a nice Blacktail buck 3 yrs ago with it.
Check out the CMP forum. Lots of good guys on there that could help on forum. Not familiar with National Ordnance. I know Remington and Smith-C made 1903a3's
Well only got to go out hunting one day at the end of the season. I started feeling better after fighting cancer since the beginning of june. Cancer is in remission and a friend took me out Halloween day. When I saw this big body 3x3 I wasnt going to pass. One shot with my Rem 760 35 Whelen w/...
I have never needed to shoot long with my whelen two Roosevelt Elk and two bear have all been shot within 35 yards. 8 or 9 blacktails have all been under 50 yards and a mule deer was way out there about 75 yards. Funny thing my longest 2 shots at game were with a 45-70(125 yrds) and a 50 cal...
Those look like bullets from ranchdog molds- http://www.ranchdogoutdoors.com/index.p ... ath=1_5_14
the 350 mold cast bullets in the 360ish grn range and the 425 drops bullets in the 435ish range.
I took a nice blacktail buck year before last with the 365grn bullet- pretty much alost went thru...
You can always contact leupold with a SN and they will confirm if the scope was made by them. I did this with a vx3 1.5-5 that was NIB that i got a super deal on.