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Surely no one shoots a musket prone ? To get the performance out of a .75 bore military musket you need a load that will be unpleasant prone but acceptable offhand.
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Gents In the early 80's I shot quite a bit of single shot cartridge competition and a considerable portion of the that was with black powder. Some of that occurred in British Columbia both at the...
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After some time away Ive began to re-create my wheel....for some reason my notes have disappeared into the ether, so I have had to read this tome again. I will say that it is good to feel like doing...
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Good to see you back. There's a new fellow making brass, PommyB. You can find his ad in the Vendor's Alley forum. I'm tempted to go make some Snider rounds now, after reading your post. Cheers, Michael
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Thanx Michael; I should add that it is still a thrill to shoot a 140+ year old arm and have it do well. Any gremlin would have been in some danger. I have no doubt that it would have been deer chops...
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I'd be happy to do your cases for you. For BMF'ers who send me their own brass I charge $1 a case & that includes return postage. Otherwise the cases are $43.50 per box of 25 inc. s&h within...
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Thanx for the offer, but I have the time to futz. If I didnt, or have a lathe to make a die and the arbor press, etc. I'd surely have you do it. Another load that worked this morning: Same cases, same...
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Hi gcrank. Good to see you'r posting again. Hope all is well. Cheers, Jock.
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We actually had a brief, sunny, dry spell here in "Little London" (Baltimore) on the Chesapeake Bay, so I took my Turner Snider to the range(rice paddy) and did rather well at 50 yds with my round...
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Could someone tell me what the diam. of the black is on Keyhole's outstanding target pictured here?
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I have browsed this section for the past two years as I, off and on, tried to develop a load that would be accurate in my Snider carbine. I tried some suggestions here and even had a mould made for me...
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I am sorry for the lack of format of this last, long post. All the paragraphs and spaces disappeared when it uploaded. Not intended to be one long blurb. Peter.
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Thank you Peter for sharing your experiences.My most accurate load in my 3 bander was with rolled card liners but I gave up on it due to some losing their liner and I was afraid that a liner might...
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Hammer, it seems to me that what you are saying makes a lot of sense. The original Snider and M/H cases being of coiled brass construction were found accursate enough for target, sporting and military...
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I have not tried this myself, and cannot verify if it does work. But a friend of mine claimed to have had reasonable success, using rolled paper soaked in potassium nitrate to reduce the case capacity...
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Thank you all for your kind remarks. John, yes I had that concern as to whether the case would lose its elasticity. I ensured the cases were fire-formed to the particular chamber, in my case the...
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Mmmmm. Just been browsing the M-H forum, Ammo, and the references there show the M-H drawn brass case was 'paper' lined in an early revision. The thickness was minimal but just enough to be able to...
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Good morning Peter, I too tried liners in my M-H & Snider cases, but all was not consistent. Tried nitrated as well a good long time ago. For some reason recoil was more pronounced. Tried base...
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