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Marrakai
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Re: W.Richards .577 Snider
09/11/07 11:18 PM

The .577 Snider is easy to load for if you 'bite the bullet' and obtain or have made a groove-diameter flat-base bullet mold. If you've been visiting the British Military forums, you will quickly learn this fact when you read their archives and resources pages.

Job no.1: slug the bore!

The Snider rifle in my collection is a Mk.III volunteer pattern 3-bander by Barnett of London, and its groove diameter is .598. If the chamber dimensions won't let you seat a groove-diameter bullet, you may need to shorten the case by an eighth-inch and cut a mold for a heeled bullet (like a .22 rimfire) but this is usually unnecessary.

A Snider double rifle with engraving of dogs is not unusual since the cartridge was a small-to-medium bore chambering in its day. Big game rifles were 8-bore (or perhaps 10 or 12-bore) at the time.

It looks like a nice double. You should have a lot of fun getting it to shoot!

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W.Richards .577 Snider	beleg2	09/11/07 08:10 AM
Re: W.Richards .577 Snider	88MauSporter	09/11/07 09:52 AM
Re: W.Richards .577 Snider	beleg2	09/11/07 10:11 AM
Re: W.Richards .577 Snider	DoubleD	09/11/07 02:38 PM
Re: W.Richards .577 Snider	Marrakai	09/11/07 11:18 PM
Re: W.Richards .577 Snider	beleg2	09/11/07 11:44 PM
Re: W.Richards .577 Snider	88MauSporter	10/11/07 02:50 AM
Re: W.Richards .577 Snider	DarylS	10/11/07 03:19 AM
Re: W.Richards .577 Snider	beleg2	10/11/07 05:24 AM
Re: W.Richards .577 Snider	mehulkamdar	10/11/07 05:45 AM
Re: W.Richards .577 Snider	DoubleD	10/11/07 06:26 AM
Re: W.Richards .577 Snider	beleg2	10/11/07 12:13 PM
Re: W.Richards .577 Snider	DoubleD	10/11/07 01:29 PM
Re: W.Richards .577 Snider	beleg2	11/11/07 01:22 AM
Re: W.Richards .577 Snider	DarylS	11/11/07 04:23 AM
Re: W.Richards .577 Snider	beleg2	11/11/07 08:43 AM

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