30 luft magnum
I resently aquired a 30 luft magnum rifle.I like to know more about this rife and were to get some ammo for it. Or if there is anyone out there that is interested in this rifle.
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Your rifle was probably built by the Luft Brothers in Spokane, WA in the early 1950's to mid-60's. The Luft brothers worked on custom Borchardt rifles but chambered for modern cartridges.
All of the old short belted magnums; Luft, Mashburn, Ackley, O'Neil, Apex, etc., were made from the 300 H&H or 375 H&H since that is all that was available back then. I believe that the Luft Magnums were in the 2.5" class of cases as opposed to the full size H&H cases. This would be similar to but not the same as the .300 Win. Magnum or the 7mm Remington Magnum.
Loaded ammunition will be as rare as hen's teeth if you can even find any outside of cartridge collections. Quality Cartridge lists both the .285 and the .30 Luft cartridges as ones they can load for you. Contacting them to buy loaded ammunition would be your first step. Otherwise you could cast the chamber and have dies made to allow you to load your own.
The Luft brothers also made a another wildcat, the 333 Express which was very similar to the 333 OKH.
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