A french Gras rifle came home with me from a gun show this past weekend. It needs some stock work but otherwise looks to be in good shape for a rifle coming up on its 138th birthday. Information for this cartridge is a bit on the slender side. The plan is to use the .43 Mauser RCBS mold that i have access to and open up a set of Lee .43 Mauser Dies. I plan to drive this with Black power or perhaps fun loads with trail boss. For cases i have on back order some of the reformed cases from Buffalo arms. What other options do i have? 8mm lebel gets me brass that is too short. .348 gets me longer brass but is too narrow at the case head and i need to file all the rims to fit the extractor.
So who here loads and shoots for this old round? What kind of method do you use for brass and dies .etc? Any source for safe load data that you have?
Thanks for reading.
Your input and help are appreciated.
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