I don't even own a Snider-Enfield, nor have I ever tried reloading, but I find this video absolutely fascinating. That's the mark of a good channel. Your passion for these weapons is infectious. I'm really glad Ian from Forgotten Weapons recommended this channel. I'll definitely be subscribing!
Firearms, history and instructional content; what a fantastic video. Another example of why you are my favorite youtube channel. I can't wait for part two.
This is incredibly helpful and as always, highly watchable. I think loading for my new Snider may not be as hard as I thought it would be. Looks like I'll be ordering some brass and a new mold fro X-Ring tomorrow! Thanks so much, Rob! Your passion benefits us all! :)
Finally some one is doing this right - so many people out there trying to shoot a 577 bullet out of their 577 Snider and failing. Hopefully this video will go to the top of the list when you google Snider Ammunition and shooters wont waste time and money trying to figure it out like me. Great Video looking forward to part 2
you saved me the mistake of buying dies I don’t need. Best of all, your brass cleaning tech is fabulous. I need to change that, and I’m thrilled with the idea.
Rob, I just wanted to say a big thank you for making such a helpful and informative video. I've been a muzzle-loader for a long time and have dipped into Black Powder Cartridge shooting every so often but usually switched my interest away because I had problems loading long range bullets into cartridges (such as Postell bullets into my Sharps). However ...you said something on this video which struck me immediately as to what I had been doing wrong. You mentioned how only when a bullet was fire-formed would the case accept the larger bullet...it then struck me that I had always used the decapper on my sizing tool so I was putting fire-formed cartridges back into its 'factory' state size! No wonder I couldn't get the rounds to fit the cases. Suddenly the solution was obvious - I tried it this evening and found I could just push the Postell rounds in to fire-formed cases without even having to size them first. So obvious perhaps, but until you pointed it out it hadn't occurred to me. Thank you so much for solving this problem for me. I shall use a universal de-capper from now on and not use the one on the sizing die.
Hi Jason. So happy that there was something here that was able to "flick that switch"... :-). The Snider round isn't very advanced as far as BPCR goes, but, as you've pointed out, there are some similarities. That Postell round is quite accurate in 45-70 the rifles, I have heard. I had reasonable success with it in my muzzleloading Volunteer rifle.
Rob, just wanted to drop you a "thank you" for showing me how to load rounds for my Snider Cadet (Simcoe Foresters) carbine. My son and I took the old girl out and let her rip. She has been christened "Thumper". Thanks again for all your work reviving Canadian Military Arms history.
That is great news! Thank you for sharing. You can always vary the load to get a more comfortable shooting experience... :-) as the Cadet is really a short range rifle anyway.
Great video as always! I put 80 grains FG blackpowder, a small piece of lubed patch, rice & millet, round card board behind a 478 grains .578 Minie bullet (handcast with Lee Mold). But, once fired, I have to either resizing the brass neck to receive the Minie bullet which is a pain in the butt or reloading with some larger caliber bullets/roundballs.
80 gr is a ton.... the service load, which tend to be a little on the stiff side, was 70 +/- 2 gr... Don't size anything after fire forming... get a bigger bullet.. :-)
Yet another excellent tutorial from your channel ! The Rebel 17 is the only way to clean brass, you can clean up the pins that spill with a magnet in a poythene bag, just pick them up, then pull the bag off the magnet.
I only reload WW1, WW2 and modern ammunition but this was an interesting video. I too have switched to using a wet tumbler with the stainless steel media and have not gone back. I use my food dehydrator as well but I have 5 trays that I only use for drying brass that I labeled "BRASS". I reload (so far) 11 different rifle calibers and 3 pistol calibers. The collection is always growing and so will my loading dies. Love the channel and video's.
Thanks for making this video! After following your example on getting started loading Martini-Henry brass, I wanted to wait till you created a video on .577 Snider before buying one. I've been lurking on the BM forum and kinda tend to get lost while looking for the piece of info I'd went there looking for. That's why I use your video's as they tend to be more concise and easy to follow. So, thank you again!
Glad that these compliment the forum nicely... Don't be hesitant to ask questions anyway over at the BMF... There is a ton of stuff there, and understandably, some of it is hard to find. Someone will direct you to it for sure.
Hi Rob, this is fantastic. Like with my own passion for steam engines, there is a whole range of skills and ancillary activities related to shooting old guns that maintain the interest long after the 'point and squirt' of anything modern.
Hi Martin, nice to see somebody call the bullet by its proper name, the Burton ball. I hate it when people call it a minié or a mini-ball. As to getting the right sized bullet for my Snider I've experimented with a .58 Lee REAL which seem to work in mine.
Brilliant video as usual! I really enjoy your reloading videos, especially when you detail the history and each individual step along with the reasoning behind the choices you've made on a particular cartridge. Again, well done! I would be interested to know what your process is for cleaning black powder firearms as well.
Great! I'd be interested in knowing how things go. There are some issues with the Nepali Sniders in regards to the chambers... This can, but not always, be an obstacle to overcome.
I got a snider but I can't find brass but 28 guage shotgun shells seem to work although the rim doesn't catch on the extracter. All I need now is a cast for the projectile. great videos keep it up 😁
Here it is Feb of 2022 and I'm just getting into reloading for my 1870 Enfield . Ordered 50 rounds of 24 ga brass today along with some other goodies . Need to find boolits yet since I don't cast and don't want to .My muzzle bore is .568 ...Wish me luck.
to lube the bullet's lube grooves, i use a pie tin, standing all of the bullets on their tails and filling the pie tin with the melted lube up as high on the bullets as you want. after you let it cool, just pluck the bullets out. less chance of dropping them in the jar of lube and dont need to put marks on the noses with pliers. just my two cents. excellent channel!
I've been washing my brass with 1/2 cup vinegar, 1 TSP citric acid and a generous squirt of dawn dish soap to a bit less than 1 gallon water. Don't know how that works with black powder but it works great on smokeless brass. I should tumble like you do. I will never go back to dry tumbling!
Dad and I have collected Sniders since the early 70's for him and the late 90's for me. We have 6 or 7 of them now. Both shotguns and rifles. I would love to get some more info on these if possible.
@@britishmuzzleloaders Where would I find some books on these/ There is not much info in the states about them. Dad literally searched for 20 years before he found our 2nd one, and am actually the one that found that one. We have since bought several others in various condition.
I have a Snider Enfield carbine, tower marked that I bought in auction. I have never fired it, so this video of parts 1 and 2 were very interesting to me I thought it used necked brass, but this doesn't seem to be the case. Although I can purchase the rifle due to its manufacture date, I am unable to buy ammunition without a FAC.
Another great video, well though out. So.... Putting my Tumbler next to a sleeping child could explain her insomnia eh.... Lol had a good laugh at that. Keep em coming 👍🏻
I enjoy your channel very much - extremely well done! Your Snider series inspired me to pick up a MarkIII carbine recently.The short barrel introduces a new set of variables. I think I will try 3F powder to start in order to allow for complete combustion in a shorter distance. Any thoughts you can share?
Nice! If there is one thing that I have learned in all this, it's to try everything in your loads... 2F, 3F, wads, fillers, cookies... the best example I have is when working up my P53, I found that the longer, heavier bullet with the shallow base cavity worked the best, when the conventional wisdom would have the shorter lighter bullet working better with the slow twist... Be comprehensive, try both powders with a good selection of loads... record it all and then you'll find your load.
You sir, make me smile. I'm sorry but your frustrations regarding using the mini-ball instead of "rolling your own" made me giggle probably way more than it should have
Fantastic videos, thanks for your work. Have you got any experience or comments on the use of a .600" round ball in a Snider? Was such a load ever used in action? Thanks for the X-Ring Snider bullet recommendation and I will look into that. What about barrel twist rates and their effect on bullet selection? Where sporting Sniders made with the same twist as the military rifles?
Hi Patrick. I have not used a .600 RB in my Sniders, but I have used smaller ones to fireform the cases. Snider ammunition always used the same kind of hollow based and hollow nosed bullet. Never the RB. I am not completely up on sporting Sniders but military ones were always either 1-78 for the Long Rifle or 1-48 for the Short Rifle. The same as the Enfields they were initially made from. Being sporting rifles, they could have been made with any combination of rifling, barrel length and twist...
Excellent video. Have you ever attempted using the 575 hollow base bullet with a reproduction wooden plug to match? Might require a lathe and certainly wouldn't be practical for frequent shooting, but it would make for an interesting performance comparison with the all-lead variant.
Thanks! No I have not. NOE make a mould for plugs that fit their Pritchett bullet but I don't know if their specs would fit, say, the Lyman .575 bullet.... That said, by doing that, you'd need the dies and such to squeeze the neck down again, part of the reason for shooting the .600 bullet... No sizing... As you have said, though, a great experiment to do...
It starts with a medley including The Road to the Isles... but after that, I can't tell you for sure. There are some Guards, some RM, some Corps of Drums too.... Sorry, I don't write them down... I agree though... Great tunes..
Is that a Momentum Format 4 Brietling "homage"? Nice!👍 I know its off topic but I have some of their watches as well. Its rare to find a company in Canada that makes watches nowadays.😅
2 things, First I recall reading somewhere that the Snider was capable of using the older muzzleoading ammo by taking a fired case, popping the primer and placing it in the chamber and then simply unscrewing the nipple and removing the firing pin and it would then be reverted to be a muzzleoading Enfield. If this is true, have you ever done so with any of your rifles? Second, I have found that using our washing machine on delicate cycle using hot water and dish soap with the cases confined to a large pillow case will get them nearly as clean as your tumble. Have you ever tried this? My experience is not with many self contained cartridge cases but with both brass and plastic Smith, Maynard, and Cap plugs used in N-SSA competitions but I have used the same method with 45LC and 44WCF cases after firing BP.
There was perhaps an initial idea that it could be so retrofitted in an emergency... then of course, you'd have to find ammunition for it... classic "good idea fairy" stuff...
Love the Star Wars lunch box. That could be worth some coin and was one that I wanted when I was in school. But my parents got me the Dukes of Hazard. Shoot, I still wish I had that one.
Beeswax and shortening? What sort of shortening? Would plain old Crisco work? Or do you have to get real tallow or lard? This was a lot of fun to watch - I wish I'd gotten into casting bullets. I was buying some from a guy who was casting them, and did experiment with shooting them unsized and pan-lubricated in unsized cases with cream-of-wheat filler. Also experimented with patching them with teflon tape.
@@iskandartaib Sorry,... yes,... Vegetable shortening is best as it lasts longer.. if you use lard or animal fat, depending on what it is, it can go rancid... Crisco is certainly available anywhere in NA if that's where you are.
Where can I find a color print of the BOXER AMMUNITION FOR SNIDER RIFLE in this video that is clear and legible so that I can read the smallest words and numbers , as opposed to unclear digital blurs? Your help would be most appreciated. Thank you for your continued work. Jolly good show!
The best bullet I ever found for the Snider was the Rapine Trashcan, they were about .581 as cast. Very accurate with 74gr. of FG in NDFS brass, but I gad to put the sight up to 400 to hit the 200m target. The regular Lee “minie” bullet also shot with satisfactory accuracy, when I filled the hollow bases with pure beeswax. I found them too tricky to cast, though. Mould was too thin and the bullets were often noticeably distorted. The Lee “improved minie” was absolutely dreadful. Didn’t even produce anything resembling a group.
great video as usual :) Also do you have any experience with ultrasonic cleaners? I hear they do the best cleaning job, but lack the buffing element of a tumbler.
Once you have used the wet pins tumbler you will not want to mess about with any other, the cases come certainly better than new, and without any effort.
You are definately the epitome of a living historian. Important skills. Thank you so much. On a side note, with these historical skills, its quite possible you could be hired by the Indian Army lol. Then again some of the stuff they have, you may well end up learning more from them lol
Hi Rob, I have a question about the action in Abyssinia. The image in the video shows British soldiers in Khaki uniform, I was wondering when the khaki field uniform came into use?
There was no universal issue khaki uniform at this time... The first British use of drab coloured clothing might be said to have come during the Cape War in the 1840s, where local made smocks were used. The Mutiny is where it became pervasive, though not "issued"..... Summer white clothing was dyed or clothing of local manufacture was purchased and the shades were anything but uniform or even brown with grey , and lavender coloured examples being used. Issued "drab" uniforms began to appear in the 1880s with famously, the issue of grey frocks for campaigns in the Sudan... khaki was also used at this time... here is a link to a diagram showing the different uniforms worn during operations in the Sudan in the 1880s... www.perry-miniatures.com/images/su/su_article_1_large.jpg and i.pinimg.com/originals/e9/27/c6/e927c662902fee986eb41579981c6ee5.jpg
Can you tell us anything about the 'shot' cartridges that the British Army used with the Snider up until (at least) the Great War? I read in "Old Soldier Sahib " (the memoir of Frank Richards DCM MM) that in India, night sentries were armed with Snider rifles and shot cartridges- as opposed to ball cartridges. inspired by your videos I've picked up a 'sporterized' Mkll**, the bore of which might charitably described as 'fair'...and as it would strain the limits of Charity to even remotely call me a 'marksman' (they posted me to the Mortar Platoon with good reason) I thought that this might make a good fowling piece!
I've found three .577 Snider-Enfield bullets in my parents' backyard. One still has wood in the top and all have the plugs inside - maybe clay or brass? 🤷 I'm wondering what the age could be for these ones having those specs. Found in the north end of St Catharines, not far from Niagara-on-the-Lake.
I modified my resizing die so there is no need to fire form with a .575" projectile, a 16mm(.630") reamer is the perfect size to open up the die. You will need to anneal the die to cut it with a HSS reamer or purchase a carbide one($$$$).
Good film, the .577 is a fine round. Question , the pop out the old primer in Berdan do that work for modern cases also, i have a Ruger nr 1 custom in .450 NE that i have an offer for some more cases for, trouble they are berdqn and i am more accustomed for using Boxers . Would it be good offer or skip them for Hornady ?
There are Berdan primer extractors that are a sort of claw arrangement that you can get... There is the problem that many Berdan primers are a special diameter... so you need a supply of those or it's a non starter. Thanks for watching. Cheers.
MrPh30 : The Berden primed cases are probably very old, don't waste your time with them,even if they are free, they really are not worth the effort, just get some Hornady or Bertram brass, you will not regret it.
Englishman French Sorry, forgot to answer you . I have thought about it , and i will order either Hornady or directly from BB , checked outnthe Berdan situation and it is little ofmthem, but better with F215 .
britishmuzzleloaders Yes i think i will skip the Berdan situation at all , and order Hornady or Bb cases . Better with f 215 primers to use that i have much of, than looking for a primer that is almost non existent.
I don't even own a Snider-Enfield, nor have I ever tried reloading, but I find this video absolutely fascinating. That's the mark of a good channel. Your passion for these weapons is infectious. I'm really glad Ian from Forgotten Weapons recommended this channel. I'll definitely be subscribing!
Thank you very much. Hope there is more here that may appeal to you! Cheers.
It's nice to see a man who takes his hobby so seriously.
Glad you approve. Cheers.
I'm glad I found this gem of a channel. The hard work and effort you put into every video is deserving of more subs.
Thank you for your kind sentiments. Tell your friends!... Spread the word... :-)
Firearms, history and instructional content; what a fantastic video. Another example of why you are my favorite youtube channel. I can't wait for part two.
Thanks very much!
Keep doing what you're doing my man, I love these kinds of history videos
Glad you do! Cheers.
As usual, well researched and presented. Thank you for all your hard work.
You are welcome. Cheers.
Thank you so much for making this video! Planning on restoring my great great grand papies snider Enfield and this video series helps a lot!
Glad to hear! Cheers.
This is incredibly helpful and as always, highly watchable. I think loading for my new Snider may not be as hard as I thought it would be. Looks like I'll be ordering some brass and a new mold fro X-Ring tomorrow!
Thanks so much, Rob! Your passion benefits us all! :)
Cheers! You can't go wrong with X-Ring!
The amount of time, effort and knowledge you put into the films you post here is amazing.
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers!
I have a Snider Enfield that belonged to my grandfather hanging in my office. Glad to learn so much more about it from your videos.
Glad to hear!
Finally some one is doing this right - so many people out there trying to shoot a 577 bullet out of their 577 Snider and failing. Hopefully this video will go to the top of the list when you google Snider Ammunition and shooters wont waste time and money trying to figure it out like me. Great Video looking forward to part 2
I am only standing on the shoulders of giants, here... Listened to advice, put it to practice, and things seem to be working out!.. Cheers.
Is this the case only with Mark III rifles? What about Mark I and II rifles, that started as muzzle loading 1853s?
This is my kind of cooking video! Nice work Rob.
Haha... Though the same thing once I saw the clip.... just need a pot of bullet lube bubbling on a hot plate off to the side...
As always, informative and entertaining....thanks for the tutorial.
Cheers!
Great video as usual!
Thanks!
you saved me the mistake of buying dies I don’t need. Best of all, your brass cleaning tech is fabulous. I need to change that, and I’m thrilled with the idea.
Great to hear!
Rob, I just wanted to say a big thank you for making such a helpful and informative video. I've been a muzzle-loader for a long time and have dipped into Black Powder Cartridge shooting every so often but usually switched my interest away because I had problems loading long range bullets into cartridges (such as Postell bullets into my Sharps).
However ...you said something on this video which struck me immediately as to what I had been doing wrong. You mentioned how only when a bullet was fire-formed would the case accept the larger bullet...it then struck me that I had always used the decapper on my sizing tool so I was putting fire-formed cartridges back into its 'factory' state size! No wonder I couldn't get the rounds to fit the cases.
Suddenly the solution was obvious - I tried it this evening and found I could just push the Postell rounds in to fire-formed cases without even having to size them first. So obvious perhaps, but until you pointed it out it hadn't occurred to me. Thank you so much for solving this problem for me. I shall use a universal de-capper from now on and not use the one on the sizing die.
Hi Jason. So happy that there was something here that was able to "flick that switch"... :-). The Snider round isn't very advanced as far as BPCR goes, but, as you've pointed out, there are some similarities. That Postell round is quite accurate in 45-70 the rifles, I have heard. I had reasonable success with it in my muzzleloading Volunteer rifle.
What a well produced instruction video for reloading the Snider rifle. I will be using these instructions for reloading my "new" Snider !!
Great! Good luck!
Excellent, informative and fun. Awesome video & channel. I am the proud owner of the 1853 Enfield, Snider & Martini - Henries.
Glad you enjoyed it and the Channel!
Rob, just wanted to drop you a "thank you" for showing me how to load rounds for my Snider Cadet (Simcoe Foresters) carbine. My son and I took the old girl out and let her rip. She has been christened "Thumper". Thanks again for all your work reviving Canadian Military Arms history.
That is great news! Thank you for sharing. You can always vary the load to get a more comfortable shooting experience... :-) as the Cadet is really a short range rifle anyway.
@@britishmuzzleloaders The thump is part of the charm and it was accurate to minute of 4 litre milk jug at 25 meters:).
Great video as always! I put 80 grains FG blackpowder, a small piece of lubed patch, rice & millet, round card board behind a 478 grains .578 Minie bullet (handcast with Lee Mold). But, once fired, I have to either resizing the brass neck to receive the Minie bullet which is a pain in the butt or reloading with some larger caliber bullets/roundballs.
80 gr is a ton.... the service load, which tend to be a little on the stiff side, was 70 +/- 2 gr... Don't size anything after fire forming... get a bigger bullet.. :-)
Yes...it kicked so hard. I'm going to reduce the load to 40-60 grains.
An excellent background and handloading tutorial. Very informative!!!
Cheers!
Yet another excellent tutorial from your channel ! The Rebel 17 is the only way to clean brass, you can clean up the pins that spill with a magnet in a poythene bag, just pick them up, then pull the bag off the magnet.
"Rebel 17 is the only way to clean brass"...... It is now!... :-)
Once again, thank you for your excellent & quite thorough videos!!!
You are very welcome. Glad you enjoyed it.
as usual, an excellent video! well researched and very useful information. One thing I would like to see is the Brown Bess.
It'll get it's day!... :-)
a snider just appeared in my cabinet and shotshells ordered many thanks for this amazing channel
Not a bad problem to have, if you ask me... :-)
Fascinating and informative, as ever. Thank you. Looking forward to the next part.
It's being cut together now!
Another great video, keep it up!
Cheers!
joy to watch and learn thanks from old blighty .
Great! Thanks for watching,sir.
Another great vid mate I like it reloading vid I find them informative and relaxing for some reason
Great! Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers.
Man, congratulations, these videos of yours are just amazing! Keep on the great work.
Thank you! Glad you are enjoying things... :-)
I only reload WW1, WW2 and modern ammunition but this was an interesting video. I too have switched to using a wet tumbler with the stainless steel media and have not gone back. I use my food dehydrator as well but I have 5 trays that I only use for drying brass that I labeled "BRASS". I reload (so far) 11 different rifle calibers and 3 pistol calibers. The collection is always growing and so will my loading dies. Love the channel and video's.
Thank you! Glad you found it interesting!
Thanks for making this video!
After following your example on getting started loading Martini-Henry brass, I wanted to wait till you created a video on .577 Snider before buying one.
I've been lurking on the BM forum and kinda tend to get lost while looking for the piece of info I'd went there looking for.
That's why I use your video's as they tend to be more concise and easy to follow.
So, thank you again!
Glad that these compliment the forum nicely... Don't be hesitant to ask questions anyway over at the BMF... There is a ton of stuff there, and understandably, some of it is hard to find. Someone will direct you to it for sure.
Excellent video as always. Lots of good information one could apply to any black powder cartridge.
Yes, there are lots of common points there, for sure.
Great videos on this and the Martini Henry .577/450. Keep going as us Frenchies in SW France enjoy your inputs.
Glad you are enjoying things! Cheers.
Great Video Sir, I'm so jealous about your guns.
You can't have them... :-)...
Hi Rob, this is fantastic. Like with my own passion for steam engines, there is a whole range of skills and ancillary activities related to shooting old guns that maintain the interest long after the 'point and squirt' of anything modern.
Indeed there is! Cheers!
good show! thanks for sharing the info on the rods I've heard of doing it but never seen it only hand scrubbed mine for hours at a time . great vid.
If you can afford it, do it.... no messing around... dump them in... rinse them off... dry.
Hi Martin, nice to see somebody call the bullet by its proper name, the Burton ball. I hate it when people call it a minié or a mini-ball. As to getting the right sized bullet for my Snider I've experimented with a .58 Lee REAL which seem to work in mine.
I hate it when some one calls Rob - Martin -- Sorry couldn't resist --- so funny - you are correct with the bullet though
Glad to hear that your Snider is shooting well!
Brilliant video as usual! I really enjoy your reloading videos, especially when you detail the history and each individual step along with the reasoning behind the choices you've made on a particular cartridge. Again, well done!
I would be interested to know what your process is for cleaning black powder firearms as well.
HI Ken. Glad you enjoyed it. Have you seen this? th-cam.com/video/Bn83QdYSwOs/w-d-xo.html
There is a Part Two as well. Cheers.
No, I had not seen that video, nor can I now either, it comes up as blocked due to being not available in my country
Looking forward to part 2 👍🏻
It's coming.... :-)
Another interesting and well thought out video. I am glad this was made as I have a Snider coming from IMA in the next week.
Great! I'd be interested in knowing how things go. There are some issues with the Nepali Sniders in regards to the chambers... This can, but not always, be an obstacle to overcome.
I got a snider but I can't find brass but 28 guage shotgun shells seem to work although the rim doesn't catch on the extracter. All I need now is a cast for the projectile. great videos keep it up 😁
Cheers!
The successor to this one was taking the MK II and converting them to the Dee Metford action. Creating the Dee Snider.
that explains the unique flavor of your beef jerky
Now how would other people reading this take that........
Black powder--a real man's barbecue seasoning.
Many thanks for this great video.
Cheers!
Can't wait for Part two. I hope to see that sweet Star Wars lunch box again.
Done. Look closely... :-)
Very good vid Rob. Been asked to shoot BP competition at the new club today including Sniders. Thing I will give it a try..............
Looking forward to hearing how things went, Duncan!
Here it is Feb of 2022 and I'm just getting into reloading for my 1870 Enfield . Ordered 50 rounds of 24 ga brass today along with some other goodies . Need to find boolits yet since I don't cast and don't want to .My muzzle bore is .568 ...Wish me luck.
Nice! Luck!
Excellent video!!
All the best
Ioannis
Greece
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers.
Aha....the Battle of Eccles Hill.
Perhaps a battle reenactment and rifle demo vid is called for mate.
"You there! Camera wallah! Staaaaaand To!"
Great suggestion!
to lube the bullet's lube grooves, i use a pie tin, standing all of the bullets on their tails and filling the pie tin with the melted lube up as high on the bullets as you want. after you let it cool, just pluck the bullets out. less chance of dropping them in the jar of lube and dont need to put marks on the noses with pliers. just my two cents. excellent channel!
Thanks! Pan lubing is covered in Part One of the Martini Ammo series.
Can't wait for part two, well done.
Thanks!
I've been washing my brass with 1/2 cup vinegar, 1 TSP citric acid and a generous squirt of dawn dish soap to a bit less than 1 gallon water. Don't know how that works with black powder but it works great on smokeless brass. I should tumble like you do. I will never go back to dry tumbling!
The wet alternative is peerless, for sure.
I do enjoy your videos, Rob.
I am glad! Thanks!
Dad and I have collected Sniders since the early 70's for him and the late 90's for me. We have 6 or 7 of them now. Both shotguns and rifles. I would love to get some more info on these if possible.
Nice! Lots of Snider content on the Channel, if you are interested.
@@britishmuzzleloaders Where would I find some books on these/ There is not much info in the states about them. Dad literally searched for 20 years before he found our 2nd one, and am actually the one that found that one. We have since bought several others in various condition.
@@britishmuzzleloaders I can take some photos and send to you if you like.
Excellent Rob, Cheers my friend.
Thanks Terry.
I have a Snider Enfield carbine, tower marked that I bought in auction. I have never fired it, so this video of parts 1 and 2 were very interesting to me I thought it used necked brass, but this doesn't seem to be the case. Although I can purchase the rifle due to its manufacture date, I am unable to buy ammunition without a FAC.
That's OK.. You can't really buy Snider ammunition anyway... :-)
Another great video, well though out. So.... Putting my Tumbler next to a sleeping child could explain her insomnia eh.... Lol had a good laugh at that. Keep em coming 👍🏻
Haha... will do! Cheers.
Beautiful video well done 😍
Thank you!
Been watch your videos, there great, thanks and I love the snider
Glad to hear!
I enjoy your channel very much - extremely well done! Your Snider series inspired me to pick up a MarkIII carbine recently.The short barrel introduces a new set of variables. I think I will try 3F powder to start in order to allow for complete combustion in a shorter distance. Any thoughts you can share?
Nice! If there is one thing that I have learned in all this, it's to try everything in your loads... 2F, 3F, wads, fillers, cookies... the best example I have is when working up my P53, I found that the longer, heavier bullet with the shallow base cavity worked the best, when the conventional wisdom would have the shorter lighter bullet working better with the slow twist... Be comprehensive, try both powders with a good selection of loads... record it all and then you'll find your load.
Thanks!
Just got a snider. Can't wait to reload.
Best of Luck!
You sir, make me smile. I'm sorry but your frustrations regarding using the mini-ball instead of "rolling your own" made me giggle probably way more than it should have
Not quite sure what you are talking about "rolling my own"?.... :-)
Fantastic videos, thanks for your work. Have you got any experience or comments on the use of a .600" round ball in a Snider? Was such a load ever used in action? Thanks for the X-Ring Snider bullet recommendation and I will look into that. What about barrel twist rates and their effect on bullet selection? Where sporting Sniders made with the same twist as the military rifles?
Hi Patrick. I have not used a .600 RB in my Sniders, but I have used smaller ones to fireform the cases. Snider ammunition always used the same kind of hollow based and hollow nosed bullet. Never the RB. I am not completely up on sporting Sniders but military ones were always either 1-78 for the Long Rifle or 1-48 for the Short Rifle. The same as the Enfields they were initially made from. Being sporting rifles, they could have been made with any combination of rifling, barrel length and twist...
Just an added tip, after rinsing in clean water I rinse in mentholated spirits, this absorbs any water and they air dry super quick
Thanks for sharing!
Excellent video. Have you ever attempted using the 575 hollow base bullet with a reproduction wooden plug to match? Might require a lathe and certainly wouldn't be practical for frequent shooting, but it would make for an interesting performance comparison with the all-lead variant.
Thanks! No I have not. NOE make a mould for plugs that fit their Pritchett bullet but I don't know if their specs would fit, say, the Lyman .575 bullet.... That said, by doing that, you'd need the dies and such to squeeze the neck down again, part of the reason for shooting the .600 bullet... No sizing... As you have said, though, a great experiment to do...
Excellent content as usual!
Thanks!
Excellent job on this video.
Thank you!
britishmuzzleloaders Your Welcome Sir
Thank you for nice English lesson!
Cheers.
Big request from a fan of British military culture, could you please annex a list of the marches used? they're all so wonderful.
It starts with a medley including The Road to the Isles... but after that, I can't tell you for sure. There are some Guards, some RM, some Corps of Drums too.... Sorry, I don't write them down... I agree though... Great tunes..
Thank you, don't mind coming back to these videos to listen to the music after learning about the topics displayed.
Hemimike426 Me too!
Fantastic videos
Thank you!
Is that a Momentum Format 4 Brietling "homage"? Nice!👍 I know its off topic but I have some of their watches as well. Its rare to find a company in Canada that makes watches nowadays.😅
Yes, I believe it is...
2 things, First I recall reading somewhere that the Snider was capable of using the older muzzleoading ammo by taking a fired case, popping the primer and placing it in the chamber and then simply unscrewing the nipple and removing the firing pin and it would then be reverted to be a muzzleoading Enfield. If this is true, have you ever done so with any of your rifles?
Second, I have found that using our washing machine on delicate cycle using hot water and dish soap with the cases confined to a large pillow case will get them nearly as clean as your tumble. Have you ever tried this? My experience is not with many self contained cartridge cases but with both brass and plastic Smith, Maynard, and Cap plugs used in N-SSA competitions but I have used the same method with 45LC and 44WCF cases after firing BP.
There was perhaps an initial idea that it could be so retrofitted in an emergency... then of course, you'd have to find ammunition for it... classic "good idea fairy" stuff...
Man I love your videos!
Glad to hear it. Thanks.
well done!
Thanks!
Love the Star Wars lunch box. That could be worth some coin and was one that I wanted when I was in school. But my parents got me the Dukes of Hazard. Shoot, I still wish I had that one.
Haha!
Great video!
Thanks!
Beeswax and shortening? What sort of shortening? Would plain old Crisco work? Or do you have to get real tallow or lard? This was a lot of fun to watch - I wish I'd gotten into casting bullets. I was buying some from a guy who was casting them, and did experiment with shooting them unsized and pan-lubricated in unsized cases with cream-of-wheat filler. Also experimented with patching them with teflon tape.
Shortening is shortening.
@@britishmuzzleloaders I suppose. They all give you cholesterol sooner or later... 😁 So I take it Crisco works.
@@iskandartaib Sorry,... yes,... Vegetable shortening is best as it lasts longer.. if you use lard or animal fat, depending on what it is, it can go rancid... Crisco is certainly available anywhere in NA if that's where you are.
A pleasure as always sir.
Thanks!
Another great video. I have simply got to replace my Snider!
Thanks Tom!
I hope this videos are archived for there historical content.
They are still here for the time being...
Where can I find the .575 sizer you used after lubricating the fire-forming bullets, as usual very well made and interesting videos
S&S Firearms sells them, I believe.
I find ceramics rod media wet tumbling in a Lymn turbo tumbler works rather well also.
Nice!
And that shows just why buying new Snider ammo is SO expensive! Fascinating though.
Not when you make it yourself it's not.
I would appreciate loading advice for Smokeless powder to be used in a modern high-wall action.
From Britishmuzzleloaders?..... Try the Channel next door, AmericanBreechloaders. 😀
Where can I find a color print of the BOXER AMMUNITION FOR SNIDER RIFLE in this video that is clear and legible so that I can read the smallest words and numbers , as opposed to unclear digital blurs? Your help would be most appreciated. Thank you for your continued work. Jolly good show!
Glad you enjoyed it! I don't know where to get a copy of the poster... If you find one, can you let me know?
I will, if I can find it.
Great video
Thanks!
Makes me want to get a Snider!
Oh yes, you should....
The best bullet I ever found for the Snider was the Rapine Trashcan, they were about .581 as cast. Very accurate with 74gr. of FG in NDFS brass, but I gad to put the sight up to 400 to hit the 200m target. The regular Lee “minie” bullet also shot with satisfactory accuracy, when I filled the hollow bases with pure beeswax. I found them too tricky to cast, though. Mould was too thin and the bullets were often noticeably distorted. The Lee “improved minie” was absolutely dreadful. Didn’t even produce anything resembling a group.
Cheers! Thanks for sharing!
at 5:08 would it be useful to cast the bullet than machine it into the specifications or would this be a to costly method?
Very costly...
@@britishmuzzleloaders thanks, ill do the easy way
great video as usual :)
Also do you have any experience with ultrasonic cleaners? I hear they do the best cleaning job, but lack the buffing element of a tumbler.
Thanks. I do not. I don't know what special ingredients you need, but the wet tumbling method is soooo easy... :-)
Once you have used the wet pins tumbler you will not want to mess about with any other, the cases come certainly better than new, and without any effort.
You are definately the epitome of a living historian. Important skills. Thank you so much.
On a side note, with these historical skills, its quite possible you could be hired by the Indian Army lol. Then again some of the stuff they have, you may well end up learning more from them lol
Glad you enjoy things! Cheers.
Hi Rob,
I have a question about the action in Abyssinia. The image in the video shows British soldiers in Khaki uniform, I was wondering when the khaki field uniform came into use?
There was no universal issue khaki uniform at this time... The first British use of drab coloured clothing might be said to have come during the Cape War in the 1840s, where local made smocks were used. The Mutiny is where it became pervasive, though not "issued"..... Summer white clothing was dyed or clothing of local manufacture was purchased and the shades were anything but uniform or even brown with grey , and lavender coloured examples being used. Issued "drab" uniforms began to appear in the 1880s with famously, the issue of grey frocks for campaigns in the Sudan... khaki was also used at this time... here is a link to a diagram showing the different uniforms worn during operations in the Sudan in the 1880s...
www.perry-miniatures.com/images/su/su_article_1_large.jpg
and
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Great Job! This is the best reloading enthusiasts video I have seen to date, are the british marches a key to success?
Glad you enjoyed the clip. Yes the marches and the fact that there is a Part Two :-) are the keys to success.
Wife's dehydrator? You are indeed a very brave man :D But it's a great idea!
Works like a charm... when she's not looking... :-)
Can you tell us anything about the 'shot' cartridges that the British Army used with the Snider up until (at least) the Great War?
I read in "Old Soldier Sahib " (the memoir of Frank Richards DCM MM) that in India, night sentries were armed with Snider rifles and shot cartridges- as opposed to ball cartridges.
inspired by your videos I've picked up a 'sporterized' Mkll**, the bore of which might charitably described as 'fair'...and as it would strain the limits of Charity to even remotely call me a 'marksman' (they posted me to the Mortar Platoon with good reason) I thought that this might make a good fowling piece!
If you email or FB, I can send you a diagram.
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I've found three .577 Snider-Enfield bullets in my parents' backyard. One still has wood in the top and all have the plugs inside - maybe clay or brass? 🤷
I'm wondering what the age could be for these ones having those specs.
Found in the north end of St Catharines, not far from Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Cool! The plugs are either wood or clay.
I modified my resizing die so there is no need to fire form with a .575" projectile, a 16mm(.630") reamer is the perfect size to open up the die. You will need to anneal the die to cut it with a HSS reamer or purchase a carbide one($$$$).
Great! One less step!
How did they create a hollow area in the point of a cast lead bullet?
They didn't cast them, they swaged them in a press...
Good film, the .577 is a fine round. Question , the pop out the old primer in Berdan do that work for modern cases also, i have a Ruger nr 1 custom in .450 NE that i have an offer for some more cases for, trouble they are berdqn and i am more accustomed for using Boxers . Would it be good offer or skip them for Hornady ?
There are Berdan primer extractors that are a sort of claw arrangement that you can get... There is the problem that many Berdan primers are a special diameter... so you need a supply of those or it's a non starter. Thanks for watching. Cheers.
MrPh30 : The Berden primed cases are probably very old, don't waste your time with them,even if they are free, they really are not worth the effort, just get some Hornady or Bertram brass, you will not regret it.
Englishman French Sorry, forgot to answer you . I have thought about it , and i will order either Hornady or directly from BB , checked outnthe Berdan situation and it is little ofmthem, but better with F215 .
britishmuzzleloaders Yes i think i will skip the Berdan situation at all , and order Hornady or Bb cases . Better with f 215 primers to use that i have much of, than looking for a primer that is almost non existent.