If you wonder how I re-primed the fired Berdan rounds, I would lay a large pistol primer on top of the anvil. 451" lead round ball into the mouth of the case. Later, I would charge a cartridge with powder and then put a. I would load a cartridge with black powder, place the loaded round in the chamber, half cock it and then load a round ball from the muzzle. Most of them fired.Īs I was already shooting muzzle loaders, I improvised my ammo a bit. I bought a few original cartridges as well. 43 Spanish carbine, bought at the Baltimore gun show in 1970. 45-70 trapdoor rifles, might help with accuracy. Great summary! Paper patching the bullets, as is commonly done for Springfield. The European military rounds have a thick lubed wad below the bullet, that makes up the major difference in powder capacity. The cases are of the same rim diameter and very close in length, If you have reloadable brass, you can form one out if the other! 2 1/4" or 57/58mm is the same range as the 45-90 (300 grain) Winchester or 45 2 1/4 Sharps. Instead they form it from 270 generally which gives them a chance to set back a new shoulder altogether. Many shooters don't even bother with factory brass as it takes such a beating in fireforming by stretching. The real bad ones are very obviously sitting low in the chamber that most anyone can clearly see. The Scandanavian copies of the RB have a firing pin lock on the hammer to prevent that.ĭrop a factory loaded round into the chamber if you don't have a headspace gauge and just observe where the base sits in reference to the back edge of the chamber. They can blow open if a head separation or primer lets go and gas slams the firing pin back hard driving the hammer backwards and out of the down and locked position. Smokeless in 1902 may not be what smokeless in 2018 is, and the history of many of these is murky at best. I've always told people to go easy on them in the first place,keep pressures in the 40K psi and under range for them. That'll blow the theorys about early cartridge specs being different or rifles w/ chambers cut purposely oversize to handle poor quality ammunition, ect. Then another one will come along and it'll be fine. 020 excess headspace is not uncommon to find in these. Many of the 7mm Mauser cal Rem RB have extra long chambers for some reason.010 to. This gun shoots 4 to 6 inches at 75 yards consistently and very close to the 1861 Springfield sight I put on it.ĬH-4D make reasonable priced dies for all these cartridges.Į.T.A.: your rifle looks a lot nicer than mine! I make cases from 50-70 brass, use a crude 425 grain mould and 50 grains of FFg Goex. The barrel was so huffed my gunsmith cut the barrel off even with the front of the action counter bored this stub barrel and silver soldered a Springfield barrel in 50 Carbine AKA 50-50 US. My other RB is a Remington contract for Egypt. I've been off and on trying to make ammo that shoots well for about 25 years, I'm still trying! The cases are of the same rim diameter and very close in length, If you have reloadable brass, you can form one out of the other! 2 1/4" or 57/58mm is the same range as the 45-90 (300 grain) Winchester or 45 2 1/4 Sharps. 439 Diameter and about 78 grains of Fg black Powder. the cartridge these were made in is 11.15 x 58R commonly called 43 Spanish. The Remington Rolling Blocks all have a Remington address on the top tang, even military contract rifles. 454" bullet of around 400 grains and 75 to 80 grains of FFg black powder. The cartridge is 11.5 x 57R, commonly called 43 Reformado. It is not a Remington, but a made at a Spanish arsenal. I know only a little about Rolling Block Rifles. The action is really strong, and the thing is deceptively light and well balanced. 43 Spanish if my limited reading is correct. The bore is filthy but I think it will clean up when I find a long enough cleaning rod. The rear sight and cleaning rod have left the building. Maybe this old boy served with Private Q P of Spain in the Philipines, or maybe it belonged to Billy Bob Roy Kasilawan of Doglick, Kentucky.
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The only reference I could find to "Kasilawan" is that it is a city in the Phillipines. It has some fine wood carving on the right side of the buttstock. I think it means it is a Spaniard (Oviedo?).Ī crown, smooshed together AR.0., and 1883 on the right side of the receiver. There is a faint cartouche on the right side of the stock. Lots of surface rust, but the action is good. It had been at a local shop for a year or two and they finally got tired of it and sold it to me for two hundred bucks.