577 Snider with Round Ball?
Hello everyone
I had picked up a Nepalese Snider a year or two ago and I just got around to it. I have 20 or so pieces of Mag Tech brass from the friend that I got the rifle off of.
I have some round balls and I also have an accurate mould that he gave to me. He said he always had more accuracy with the round balls though.
I do not have a set of dies and was told that I should be able to load this without dies as long as a stick with BP
I'm not a stranger to what needs to be done when reloading black powder cartridges but I have yet to do it myself.
My plan was to load these with a round ball to fire form and then use the conical once I have fire formed brass.
Any suggestions on other components or loading techniques? I was planning on loading BP, then a card wad, then a cornmeal or similar filler. I was told that dipping the loaded rounds into Udderly Smooth hand cream before firing was a good way to "lube" and keep the fowling very soft.
I would prefer to keep this as simple os possible. This is more of a novelty and not really a passion of mine (hoping the bug doesn't bite me) I might load the batch of brass a handful of times a year to make some smoke and introduce some shooter to something different from time to time
Thanks for all of the input.
Fooling around with a gifted Snider Carbine.
................I have a friend who is a retired RCMP captain, and he'd asked me one time If I'd like to have a Snider? I said, "Why not, EVERYONE should have one"? So he sent me the shortened rifle (Carbine length) complete, except for the hammer screw. Come to find out the barrel had been "Carbine-ized" by someone less then intimately acquainted with a hacksaw, and /or also without the means to clean it up.
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Since the bore was also not "C0-incident" with the outside OD of the barrel I had to fiddle around with odds bits to allow the lathe to put a decent champher on the bore ID. Setting up the barrel in a steady rest was no bueno. In any event the deed was done.
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Side view of the little begger ................................................Cl oseup of the interesting parts.
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Just a photo of some loaded stuff for range testing .........................................And another batch. I was done trying to get conicals to shoot.
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Magtech (CBC) brass. First batches had those horrific Berdan primers. I altered them to accept shotshell battery cup primers. Not too long after that they came out with the large pistol primed cases.
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Fired at 50 yards off the bench. Load was Magtech 24 ga hulls LPP, Lee .600" round ball of WW alloy and a lube disc over a .080" cardwad 24.0 grs of Unique. The group size is 1.875 and a velocity of 1475 fps. Not a SINGLE BP load worked, and I do have just a teensy bit of experience with 58 cal mlers.
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This is a 5 shot group at 50 yards using NEI 500gr Target Minie's out of a Parker Hale P-58 Naval Pattern Enfield
..................Buckshot