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Ed,
You have a valid point. = I do sleep quite close to a certain lovely YL with blue eyes AND she can outrun me, too. ("Dee" is about 1/2 my age & quite petite. = Like dynamite, some powerful things come in small packages.)
Fwiw, I likely will shoot mostly smokeless in the DR. = Saves a lot of cleaning. (The 11.15x60R mm, as it is known abroad, was loaded between 1900 & "the end of the run", circa 1936, with a "bulky" smokeless powder.- I don't know what powder but I'm told that "the usual early 1900s load" was a case-full.)
Inasmuch as you seem to know considerably more than I do about .43 Mauser, I would like to "pick your brains" on MAKING cases. (I'm way too CHEAP to pay over 3 bucks each for cases, unless I have to. - I "heard through the grapevine" that reformed, trimmed & fireformed .300 Win Mag and/or .348 WCF cases will work.)
yours, satx
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Doc, just thought I'd let you know I shoot my double rife impeccably.
It's taken a fair amount of game from prairie dogs and cottontails to Cape buffalo. And,it's good out to 4-500 yards. At least on silhouettes. With iron sights.
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And what caliber is your impeccably shot double rifle, sir?
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Ed,
You have a valid point. = I do sleep quite close to a certain lovely YL with blue eyes AND she can outrun me, too. ("Dee" is about 1/2 my age & quite petite. = Like dynamite, some powerful things come in small packages.)
Fwiw, I likely will shoot mostly smokeless in the DR. = Saves a lot of cleaning. (The 11.15x60R mm, as it is known abroad, was loaded between 1900 & "the end of the run", circa 1936, with a "bulky" smokeless powder.- I don't know what powder but I'm told that "the usual early 1900s load" was a case-full.)
Inasmuch as you seem to know considerably more than I do about .43 Mauser, I would like to "pick your brains" on MAKING cases. (I'm way too CHEAP to pay over 3 bucks each for cases, unless I have to. - I "heard through the grapevine" that reformed, trimmed & fireformed .300 Win Mag and/or .348 WCF cases will work.)
yours, satx satx, you might look up 'sharps4590' here on the fire and send him a message. He's in Missouri. If I remember, he has/had a double in .43 mauser and made all his own cases, etc.
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You done good on that one, gunner.
I now have photos of the famous .303 Rodda I've heard so much about.
It's a bute.
DF Many Thanks DF, think I'll have Wifey chunk it and a coupla Sharps rifles in my pine box with me to go along for the ride.
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Satx, There are several YouTube videos and tutorials on making .43 Mauser brass from other cases. Any of the belted magnum cases based on the .532" rim diameter will work, but the simplest seems to be turning the rim off of .458 Win Mag brass and running them through a .43 Mauser sizing die. With appropriate applications of Imperial Sizing Die wax, of course. You could use .348 Win. brass, properly annealed and fire-formed, depending on your chamber dimensions, but keep in mind that .348 Win SAAMI allowable maximums is ~0.037" larger for the case diameter just head of the rim than the 1912 Winchester drawings for the .43 Mauser and ~0.038" larger than the 1884 Kynoch drawings. The Winchester and Kynoch .43 Mauser drawings show a case diameter just forward of the rim as 0.516" and 0.515" respectively with .348 Win brass showing that diameter as 0.553" .458 WM brass is nominally 0.513" just in front of the rim, which would be turned off to maintain that diameter all the way to the extractor cut. Granted, using any .375 H&H based rimmed brass will leave you with a ~0.035" thinner rim than original .43 Mauser brass, and using .348 Win brass will leave you with only a ~0.020" thinner rim. .458 WM brass ( 2.500") will have to be trimmed while .348 Win brass will be ~0.110" shorter than .43 Mauser specs of 2.365". Your chamber castings will tell you a lot about which brass to use. BTW, all of these specs come from Ken Howell's book "Designing and Forming Custom Cartridges". Or, do this; LINK Ed
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You done good on that one, gunner.
I now have photos of the famous .303 Rodda I've heard so much about.
It's a bute.
DF Many Thanks DF, think I'll have Wifey chunk it and a coupla Sharps rifles in my pine box with me to go along for the ride. That could turn out like an Italian funeral, where everyone drops cash in the coffin. Before closing the lid, a Wiseguy takes the cash, counts it, writes a check and drops it in the box. I think there are several here on the Fire who would be glad to do the same, take the guns, drop a check in the box... DF
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LOL, my crate will be a lot lighter with paper and ink instead of all that walnut and blued steel.
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LOL, my crate will be a lot lighter with paper and ink instead of all that walnut and blued steel. But, what if the check clears... DF
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It would all boil down to two triggers versus one for me, never fired a 2 triggered gun I liked!
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