gunnut14
07-03-2011, 10:56 PM
I recently purchased 2 43 Mausers.
I want to shoot them both.
One with smokeless the other with black powder.
I do not want to shoot matches as I cannot afford the required rifles for BPCR matches.
I want to shoot for the knowledge gained and for the fun of it but haven't a clue.
I have read all the books I can find and altho I have gained a lot of info I am still at a loss to do it right.
What I have learned so far is.
1) I I want to shoot a P/P boolit it must be patched to bore size ,On my rifle .446 and expect it to bump up to groove size on firing.
2)load the powder through a drop tube to 65 grains by weight.
A card wad,grease cookie, and second card wad.
3 ) seat boolit so there is no air space in the case.
4) no crimp required if single loading.
What I do not know will fill a couple of volumes but most of all I need to know.
1) using the above data do I need to increase to powder charge and compress powder.
No 2 books give the same data and that makes it even more confusing.
Cartridges of the world says 75 grains of BP
All of the articles on the 43 Mauser I have read say 70 grains of BP
Mike Venturino in Lymans Cast Bullets Handbook says minimum of 85 grains of BP
So who is right? If no one where and how do you start?
There are no BP shooters anywhere around me and the ones I talked to when I drove several hours to see them kinda shrugged it off as I was not shooting a BP cartridge rifle.
This is something I promised myself I would learn and bought the Paul Mathews series of books which gives me a reasonable insight as to BP shooting but no particulars that I can wrap my mind around as far as the 43 Mausers are concerned.
I do not intend to give up and need some positive guidance.
gunnut14
I want to shoot them both.
One with smokeless the other with black powder.
I do not want to shoot matches as I cannot afford the required rifles for BPCR matches.
I want to shoot for the knowledge gained and for the fun of it but haven't a clue.
I have read all the books I can find and altho I have gained a lot of info I am still at a loss to do it right.
What I have learned so far is.
1) I I want to shoot a P/P boolit it must be patched to bore size ,On my rifle .446 and expect it to bump up to groove size on firing.
2)load the powder through a drop tube to 65 grains by weight.
A card wad,grease cookie, and second card wad.
3 ) seat boolit so there is no air space in the case.
4) no crimp required if single loading.
What I do not know will fill a couple of volumes but most of all I need to know.
1) using the above data do I need to increase to powder charge and compress powder.
No 2 books give the same data and that makes it even more confusing.
Cartridges of the world says 75 grains of BP
All of the articles on the 43 Mauser I have read say 70 grains of BP
Mike Venturino in Lymans Cast Bullets Handbook says minimum of 85 grains of BP
So who is right? If no one where and how do you start?
There are no BP shooters anywhere around me and the ones I talked to when I drove several hours to see them kinda shrugged it off as I was not shooting a BP cartridge rifle.
This is something I promised myself I would learn and bought the Paul Mathews series of books which gives me a reasonable insight as to BP shooting but no particulars that I can wrap my mind around as far as the 43 Mausers are concerned.
I do not intend to give up and need some positive guidance.
gunnut14