Johnch
10-31-2005, 09:57 PM
A freind inherited a 50/70 trap door rifle .
He wants to shoot it .
I looked at it and it's rifling is OK but not great with some pitting .
He ask me to cast up some bullets .
He scronged 19 cases and a set of dies .
Being cheap as he is , he hoped I had a mold to use.
I have a TC 370 gr Maxi and a Maxi Hunter mold for the front stuffer .
I would cast them out of 40-1 .
I was thinking of reaming out a old sizing die to size a few to .510 or what ever the rifle slugs out to , or the max the chamber will allow .
The Maxi should hold enough lube . [smilie=l:
I looked up loading data and found a start load of 27 gr of AA5744 with a 425 gr bullet ( I have 5744 )
I dought he will shoot it much , so he wants to do this as cheap as possible .
Do you think this will work ?
Any other ideas
Johnch
He wants to shoot it .
I looked at it and it's rifling is OK but not great with some pitting .
He ask me to cast up some bullets .
He scronged 19 cases and a set of dies .
Being cheap as he is , he hoped I had a mold to use.
I have a TC 370 gr Maxi and a Maxi Hunter mold for the front stuffer .
I would cast them out of 40-1 .
I was thinking of reaming out a old sizing die to size a few to .510 or what ever the rifle slugs out to , or the max the chamber will allow .
The Maxi should hold enough lube . [smilie=l:
I looked up loading data and found a start load of 27 gr of AA5744 with a 425 gr bullet ( I have 5744 )
I dought he will shoot it much , so he wants to do this as cheap as possible .
Do you think this will work ?
Any other ideas
Johnch