Beekeeper
11-17-2009, 11:35 AM
In all honesty I have read all I could find about these rifles including what little I could find in a couple of black powder books.
I have a 577 snider short rifle!
It came from the Nepal cache and I have spent several months restoring it
The barrel slugs out to 580 and a .600 round ball from a lee mould seems to be the best boolit for it.
It is definately a black powder rifle and my knowledge of black powder and its holy grail could be put in a humming birds brain and he would fly upside down and backwards.
That said I want to take the plunge and fire this weapon at least once to say it belched fire one more time.
Has anyone here ever loaded for one of these rifles?
Know of a load that would be safe for one.
I talked to a black powder shooter at the range yesterday who said just fill the case with 2F , compress it .100 thousands, seat the ball and fire it.
Ain't so sure that is safe!! Having never shot black powder( being a smokeless shooter all my life) the idea of filling a case and compressing it just doesn't sit right.
I need help from anyone who is willing to help.
Thanks in advance.
Jim
I have a 577 snider short rifle!
It came from the Nepal cache and I have spent several months restoring it
The barrel slugs out to 580 and a .600 round ball from a lee mould seems to be the best boolit for it.
It is definately a black powder rifle and my knowledge of black powder and its holy grail could be put in a humming birds brain and he would fly upside down and backwards.
That said I want to take the plunge and fire this weapon at least once to say it belched fire one more time.
Has anyone here ever loaded for one of these rifles?
Know of a load that would be safe for one.
I talked to a black powder shooter at the range yesterday who said just fill the case with 2F , compress it .100 thousands, seat the ball and fire it.
Ain't so sure that is safe!! Having never shot black powder( being a smokeless shooter all my life) the idea of filling a case and compressing it just doesn't sit right.
I need help from anyone who is willing to help.
Thanks in advance.
Jim