I have never heard of it tried that way but I suspect that the thin pointed end will fail to impart enough energy to fire off the primer compound on the other side of the primer cap metal and quickly...
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I have never heard of it tried that way but I suspect that the thin pointed end will fail to impart enough energy to fire off the primer compound on the other side of the primer cap metal and quickly...
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The stock design was used in service across the world in many armies and over literally decades without complaint. It is just to be held differently to US ones like Springfields.
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First you would need to have a Metford type Snider bullet with the hole in the nose and the base cavity. Initially the holes were filled with a sycamore peg. Then that cost was saved by spinning the...
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Snider Cavalry Carbine. I have had three through my hands in the past. Yours appears to be Portuguese. Not the most common Snider version but they regularly appear on the market. Handy in close...
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I am so glad that my BPCR is a Martini Henry so I can just throw 85 grains into it followed by a greased cannalured bullet leaving air to fill the gap and back home for tea and biscuits.
However;...
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I used to have that problem when I began with Sniders. I went on to use xringservices brass and 0,600"bullet mould but then I simply rolled the ball with a piece of steel strip on my vice flat until...
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Save yourself all the trouble and get the cases from Martyn at xringservices at xringservices@yahoo.com. Not that much more than the bare cases and cut and formed to fit. I have used nothing else and...
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The Monkey Tail seems to have worked fine in service and with Boer farmers with the wad before the bullet.
I came back to this and had the same thought of the felt wad with a hole in it for the...
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Works a treat in my Monkey Tail Carbine.
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I am not a Sharps user but it occurs to me that a Terry type paper cartridge would seal and clean it in use.
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Essentially a paper tube with a closed end with a thick greased felt pad glued to...
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The Chassepot needle, for original ammunition, has to pierce a natural rubber disk to reach the primer and to let the disk slip off the needle when the reverse pressure behind the bolt post blows the...
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xringservices@yahoo.com will do you moulds and cases very reasonably priced and well thought of.
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There was more than one way to obturate a Chassepot. See (German) http://dingler.culture.hu-berlin.de/article/pj184/ar184013
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As.303 has been mentioned I will note that:
1. It was designed for smokeless and only used a cored solid pellet of black powder temporarily until smokeless production was sorted out.
2. The...
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A brief note of caution. If you use sawdust ensure it is totally dry. Dropping damp sawdust into molten lead is NOT a good thing.
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On my Mac it would not open the file as it is RAR but 'Unarchiver' did the trick when I had downloaded it. https://theunarchiver.com
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Whilst there is no doubt that the drawn brass case is the ideal, and still the norm today, the Chassepot was far superior to the Dreyse and kept in French service until the Lebel. Albeit as a second...
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Yes a Gras would solve all your problems.
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Could someone explain why compression is a good thing? I can understand squeezing more powder into a small case but the the big user, the military in the day, did not compress their powder. In muzzle...
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For the information of those using the proper paper cartridges. Accurate Molds do moulds for 3 Monkey Tail bullets covering carbines, rifles and target rifles. 47-400B, 47-453B and 47-510B. I have a...
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All the Westley Richards bullets for their Monkey Tails, whether breech or muzzle loaded, were cylindrical for the octagonal Brunel rifled bore. They were smooth sided (bar the rear, being bore...
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Measures should be made from a weighed charge of known powder and sized to match the volume of that powder of required weight. Once you have a weighed charge you can thus make a measure to match and...
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As Steppenwolf says. The email is xringservices@yahoo.com
I use nothing but his cases and moulds for my Sniders. The 'Pukka' SWC for 100 metres and the heavier for longer ranges. 0.600" bullets...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |