Thread: breathing new life into a beautiful old girl

Your a clever bugger Greghud, damn good work.

Amazing.

Man that is amazing. What is the significance with the different colour front piece? Beautiful rifle mate!

Originally Posted by rs200nz

Man that is amazing. What is the significance with the different colour front piece? Beautiful rifle mate!

it is there as a aesthetic embellishment, no real purpose for it.

time for some shooting!
now for those not up with the 577 snider, its a black powder cartridge. so the reloading process is much more complex. I wont cover it all, but to cut a long story short, its a pain in the arse.
getting brass for a cartridge that has been obsolete since the 1930's is a little challenging.
so I used 24 gauge brass hulls from Magtec, shortened them and sized them down to 577 snider.
I have a 480g hollow based mini mould from lee that cast undersized. so I have lapped out the mould a few thou. I will try these and if that is no good then I will look at other options.
75 grains of triple 7 ffg with a card then a wax cookie before seating the bullet.

off to kiddies sport tomorrow and then if I can escape, I will put a shot or 2 through and see how close the sights are.



greg

Hey @greghud, congratulations to the achievement, you have done an amazing job overall, the rifle is stunning and the "special" work in the reloading is just another work of art.
All the best and good, very good luck during the test fire.

Mac

sweet thanks for that. Looks amazing!