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Why is the 303 not popular? As mentioned in other posts, we have lots of other options, and commercial rifles are not made for it because it is rimmed, an odd head size, and an odd bore size. If sporting arms were still made in significant numbers in England or former Commonwealth countries, it might make the list, but I doubt it. A few strikes against it:
* There are too many rimless options, the name of the game in repeaters is to make it feed right.
* It has to be easy to mass produce, and repeaters for rimmed cartridges are not.
* It has to offer something a comparable cartridge does not, and it does not.
* It has to be attractive, and the Lee-Enfield rifle is not.
The 303 is from an era of transition from black powder to smokeless. We also had a service rifle from that same era, the 1898 Krag Jorgensen, chambered in a very similar cartridge, the 30 US Army (30-40 Krag). It is not very popular any more either, and occasionally someone will ask why not. The answer is the same.
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