Cartridges and Reloading

Resurrecting rimfires

feeds@yuku.com (Fabian23) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:14:17 GMT

This is the method I am using to convert 10,4mm centerfire cases to 10,4 rimfire cases for Swiss Milbank-Amlser and Swiss Peabody rifles. It would work for any cartridge which has both CF and RF possibilities with a single tip firing pin (56-50 comes to mind). This only power tool needed is a drill press (the only thing I have space for ).

Bits 'n' pieces you need:

CF cases
.22rf blanks
Brass M6 metal screws
Drill press
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Why I no longer use Triple 777

feeds@yuku.com (The Double D) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:10:58 GMT

These Bertram cases are for my ZAR, the one I got in South Afrcia and used on my safari. These cases in fact made that trip.

These cases have never fired any other powder than Triple 7.

They were decapped, not sized then washed and walnut shell tumbled and put in astorage box sometime in 2005 before I went down to SA to work. This is how they came out of the box yesterday.

While looking for these to take pictures, I found a box of 45/70 that were shot with...

forming brass

feeds@yuku.com (sspc1) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:38:45 GMT

Anyone ever check to see how long it takes to form a case using annealed Magtech brass? Not being in any hurry, I can usually get a case formed and trimmed in just over 7 min. Used to take me about 20 min when I was just starting, using BELL basic .577 brass.

neck sizing

feeds@yuku.com (robf3) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:47:00 GMT

I have the ndfs i purchased some years back and want to neck size only, the problem is my sizing die reduces it back to .460, any comments on how to rectify this situation. Thanks All

Request to UK residents

feeds@yuku.com (Jim Durling) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:31:46 GMT

I have recently purchased a Belgian copy of a Webley RIC made by Auguste Francotte ( photo in the handgun section) I believe it tobe chambered in .500 revolver. I have been told I can make rounds from .500 S&W cases, unfortunately in the UK we can't have handguns so I don't think I am going to find many 500 S&W cases available.
Does anyone have an original .500 revolver round they would be willing to sell or 500S&W cases that I can make some inert rounds from, they...

loading primers

feeds@yuku.com (mjmehrer07) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:18:43 GMT

I am having a hard time on getting information from local sources on how to reload the .577-450 cartridge. I have everything figured out except on how to put the new primer into the shell casing. The only thing that local stores have are the little hand reloading tool for primers. As the MH cartridge is too big, that will not work for me. What do you use to overcome that issue? Thanks.

All right I'm newbe to reloading ...I have 60 ten-x brass shells and want to reload ..What do I need ???? I like to use Lee ???

feeds@yuku.com (yij77) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:29:40 GMT

All right I'm newbee to reloading ...I have 60 ten-x brass ( once shot brass) martini shells and want to reload ..What do I need ???? I'd like to use Lee stuff ??? So, is Lee Classic Press and dies ok .... ??? and the bullets they sell on gunbroker (with paper wrap Ok ??).... I will be reloading for a mark iv and nepalese rifles ..( need to slug barrels for nepalese .. as I've read ( to small barrel ) .....So, basically I need the whole ten yards to reload a martini henry (...

I'm done!

feeds@yuku.com (17Z) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:20:26 GMT

My sizing die broke! I mean it's in three pieces!

I was full length resizing my Ten-X brass so I could bring my new Mk IV back to life, and on the 6th case it came apart. What the hey?

I liked these dies..CH4D dies that fit a 7/8" thread press. These worked perfect for partial/neck sizing for my Mk II...and now the most important piece is thrashed!

I bought these used...so no telling whats happened to them in the past. But really! I've never seen...

Curtis & Harvey #6 granulation

feeds@yuku.com (longlever) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:03:40 GMT

I know I've read it a few times over the years, but can anybody definitively tell me the modern-day granulation equivalent of the Curtis and Harvey #6 powder used in Martini-Henry cartridges back in the day? The consensus of what I've heard anecdotally is that it has the same granulation as modern day Fg. Can anybody point to a reference? I don't want to disassemble one of my period cartridges to find out for sure.....Douglas????? Jason

MK IV case mouths are quite larger after being fire-formed

feeds@yuku.com (Big Idiot) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:27:28 GMT

Hi Guys: Here's the problem/question. I'm going to try to describe it without a ton of measurements that I've taken. After a MKIV case is fire-formed, the case mouth is quite large, and a bullet can easily be dropped in which is why I slightly flare the mouth and then put just enough crimp to hold the bullet in place after resizing. When I resize the neck with the Lee die and use moderate pressure, I can only get the case about 0.275" into the die; anything more will...

CASE LENGTHS, CHAMBER CASE LENGTHS, CHAMBER

feeds@yuku.com (The Double D) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:42:12 GMT

CASE LENGTHS, CHAMBER CASTS & IMPACT IMPRESSIONS

Here's some good reading material, click on it, it's an active link. The first part covers determing case lenth in straight wall cases, and doesn't apply to bottelneck. The rest of the link covers chamber casting and impact impressions.

Purchasing Cast Bullets

feeds@yuku.com (robf3) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:41:29 GMT

Is there a source for purchasing .468 cast bullets, I ordered some a few years back but cannot remember the source,

Ten-X ammo components?

feeds@yuku.com (17Z) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:30:09 GMT

I've been keeping my BSA Mk. II running for better than 3 years on 38 pieces of Ten-X headstamped .577/.450 brass. I bought the ammunition loaded, and this brass has been great stuff. Have not failed a case yet, and my loads are not all that mild either.

Thats all great for my BSA Mk. II rifle, but soon will have a Mk. IV rifle in hand. I figure I had best get some more brass, and planned to just buy myself a couple boxes of Ten-X .577/.450 ammo and just get on down the...

case separation

feeds@yuku.com (NORMSUTTON) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:08:38 GMT

I had a case separation yesterday

the first thing I did was sprayed some WD-40 down the barrel,took an old split case the case sprayed case lube on it, then drove a split case in the chamber , then filled the split case with lead, then put a slug in the chamber ,re sprayed the case with case lube, then drove the lead filled case back in , then taped it out with a...

Time to get some new black powder?

feeds@yuku.com (Vulture) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:38:12 GMT

No one in my local area sells black powder. I did a net search a while back and couldn't find a dealer in the Salt Lake City are that carries it any longer, although I could be wrong on that. I can order some from Powder Inc. Goex runs $20.35 in 5lb. lots, that's the smallest amount you can order, and that is in any granulation, so it will run me a little over $100 for five pounds plus the hazmat fee. Does anyone know of any place that sells it for less. I have around four lbs....

Just what I need - another caliber

feeds@yuku.com (B1acksmith) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:30:40 GMT

Got seduced by a nice little snider rook rifle at the Nations Gun Show in VA Saturday. Spend time talking to the dealer, Bill Strood, about martinis, rooks, doubles and all things english that go boom (he had a .577 revolver I drooled over and he also had one at home - not fair). Great guy, except he made me pay for the gun - Oh, Well been some years since I got anything on my looks alone. But all that said, it is in 300 Rook. Bill gave me some load advice that I will try. Question is...

Got 40 Kynoch .577/.450 cases at gun show

feeds@yuku.com (GrantR Canada) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:42:55 GMT

Gentlemen:

Rather glad I took a few hours off yesterday (from ongoing preparations for my tip to Nebraska for the GAF Muster) to take a run through the local gun show ......

Picked up 40 unfired Kynoch MH cases, in original packing box, for Can$80 .....

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Magtech brass

feeds@yuku.com (sspc1) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:43:35 GMT

I've noticed that the 24ga brass hulls seem to be in short supply. Anyone know when there will be another shipment? I've asked Graf and Son, but have not heard from them.

Martini Henry low power loads

feeds@yuku.com (Old Coaster) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:03:57 GMT

M/H purists should look away now - or perhaps just peek a little through their fingers. I no longer shoot my Mk 1V for the principal reason that the only range I still have access to in my old age won't allow it - only muzzle loaders, not BCPRs although the ballistics are similar. However a long time ago when I first shot my Snider and M/H rifles it was with factory loaded Kynoch ammo and I once knew a guy who shot his P53 Enfield using original paper cartridges. Times change! What I...

Snider case prep

feeds@yuku.com (peterb632) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:11:25 GMT

Although Snider cases are real easy to reload by hand they are a real pain in the sense that they are too big for many of the "standard" reloading tools to fit.
For example while cleaning & prepping yesterday I realised that I had a "burr" on the inside lip of some of my cases...but my (Lee) deburring tool just doesn't
quite fit (too small).
I thought I could find a countersink or something but no, all my tools are to small.
So how do you deburr...