Thread: Dies

Originally Posted by zimmer

Maca49 - I shot a lot of goats with my MH. Dead on the spot, even with a mild load and solid slug. Also shot a few with my Musketoon. Never took the Snider out for goats and never trusted my arm to take any of them for deer. Should have done though whilst I had the opportunity. What model MH have you got?

Have a John Reeves London sporting rifle They are fun to shoot just getting some 86grain rounds together as have not fired a nose bleeder as yet. I have a Harrington and Richards 45-70, a 1904sxs Williams Evans 12 g just restocked by Ian Gaskill in Raglan, it came up a treat and a parker hale 2 band 54 cal Enfield. But like the cartridge guns better. Shooting Tauranga on Sunday.
Have the mh in bits building up the block pivots as the firing pin was hitting low on the primers and causing misfires, shows off my flinch real good!

Originally Posted by ebf

Hehe, I think my great-great grandpa may have bowled over a couple of red-jackets with one, we had a couple in the family, was a very popular rifle in the Anglo Boer wars. Big-ass projectiles huh

Some of those poor bastards must have died a horrible death after being pinged with a projectile like that!

You been using brasso?

Yup

The glare will scare the game when you load?

They cant see it when its in the chamber I loaded a heap more just now took 1 1/2 hours. Tested 10 shots and boy do they make factory ammo shit, all touching and only 27 fps difference in the loads. Is that good from the highland stuff we tried its better.

27 fps difference between 10 new rounds, or average diff between reloads and bought ammo ?

I'm assuming the first, which is very good, means you were being careful and accurate when measuring the powder

Very careful. Is 3-5min per round slow? Thats what I seem to average. The scales move easy like 1 pellet of the powder moves it. Pain in the ass with that part but seeing it finished is worth it.

Good, keep it up. Slow is good, easy to get distracted or careless, and blow up a barrel or worse.

That's the joy of doing it Precision and consistency

Fucking shit. Need more primers and projectiles now. But the good thing. I have done 100!!!! Still got powder left but should get more anyway. Thanks for the help guys.

So have you worked up a load or just picked one at random?

Nah I got one from that adi chart link someone gave me on here and just used 56grs since it was roughly inbetween the max and min. With my first test loads they were all touching each other in the paper so cant see reason to change

Originally Posted by Toby

Fucking shit. Need more primers and projectiles now. But the good thing. I have done 100!!!! Still got powder left but should get more anyway. Thanks for the help guys.

You could practice making blanks