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Actually I'm fireforming the last couple of dozen cases for this rifle - they had previously been fired in another with a very slightly smaller neck. The chamber mouth of most Sniders is .600", owing little or nothing to the original .577" diameter bullet of its progenitor, the P53 Enfield rifled musket, which fired a Minié-style bullet of anything between .577" and .585", depending on who made it. Rob of Britishmuzzleloaders on Youtube, along with Martyn Robinson of X-Ring Services in Spokane WA figured out some time ago that the best diameter for accuracy was a .600" flat-base, two-groove lead bullet of around 545gr.
As designed, this is the Snider case on the left, clearly necked, with a just fire-formed straight-sided case on the right - made to take Martyn Robinson's .600" diameter two-groove version.
The .600" bullet from X-Ring Services' mould/mold.
As an aside - I know some of you like my asides - on the left is what we used to shoot at the Taliban in the 1880's, and on the right, today's efforts.
Anyhow, here's a quick little movie showing one of my prize possessments - a gift from a friend. TBH, it would not have mattered if it had been a bent nail - a gift is a gift. Sharp-eyed among you might just notice that although it has a rack number, it lacks any kind of serial number, in common with every Snider ever made. This can be useful, so I'm told. Y'see, here in UK, so long as I'm over 18, and clearly in full possession of my faculties and not showing any outward signs of having ingested or being under the influence of any of the more commonly encountered hallucinatory 'medications', I can just walk into a store that specialises in such arms, pay and walk out with it suitably wrapped up. No documentation is necessary. This is because such an arm fires a cartridge that is not generally available for sale these days in the UK, and as such is classed as a Section 58 [Obsolete calibre] firearm.
Yes, I know that there are certain custom ammunition-makers in the US who churn Snider ammunition out for about five bucks a shot, but you are there, and I am here.
Soooooooooooooooo, you can buy it, freely, and take it home, freely, and hang it on the wall, freely. All totally legal.
What you can NOT do, everhow, is to shoot it.
For that, it has to be registered on your Firearms Certificate [AKA FAC], and obviously adding that first you must actually HAVE a FAC...I've posted before what you have to do to get one. Mine is now entered on my FAC. Hence my keenth in getting to shoot it
Enjoy.
As designed, this is the Snider case on the left, clearly necked, with a just fire-formed straight-sided case on the right - made to take Martyn Robinson's .600" diameter two-groove version.
The .600" bullet from X-Ring Services' mould/mold.
As an aside - I know some of you like my asides - on the left is what we used to shoot at the Taliban in the 1880's, and on the right, today's efforts.
Anyhow, here's a quick little movie showing one of my prize possessments - a gift from a friend. TBH, it would not have mattered if it had been a bent nail - a gift is a gift. Sharp-eyed among you might just notice that although it has a rack number, it lacks any kind of serial number, in common with every Snider ever made. This can be useful, so I'm told. Y'see, here in UK, so long as I'm over 18, and clearly in full possession of my faculties and not showing any outward signs of having ingested or being under the influence of any of the more commonly encountered hallucinatory 'medications', I can just walk into a store that specialises in such arms, pay and walk out with it suitably wrapped up. No documentation is necessary. This is because such an arm fires a cartridge that is not generally available for sale these days in the UK, and as such is classed as a Section 58 [Obsolete calibre] firearm.
Yes, I know that there are certain custom ammunition-makers in the US who churn Snider ammunition out for about five bucks a shot, but you are there, and I am here.
Soooooooooooooooo, you can buy it, freely, and take it home, freely, and hang it on the wall, freely. All totally legal.
What you can NOT do, everhow, is to shoot it.
For that, it has to be registered on your Firearms Certificate [AKA FAC], and obviously adding that first you must actually HAVE a FAC...I've posted before what you have to do to get one. Mine is now entered on my FAC. Hence my keenth in getting to shoot it
Enjoy.
