reloading for steyr peabody martini 1882

[jarmann]

I form my cases out of 50/90 sharps cases from bell and starlight ,
I do not anneal the bell 's but have to the starlight's ,I use a beaumond sizing die from the former fnds cy in UK ,
first I shorten the cases to 60 mm then do a full lenght sizing ,and trim them to the correct lenght 59,7 mm
next I expan the neck to accept a .458 /385gn lead bullet ,under 25/26 gn of vitha N110 and a cloud of dacron , this combination gives me very tight groups at 100 m
after the first shot ,the cases are fireformed ,and the next loads I have only to neck size
the rifle has no romanian markings ,
probably the rifle was a sample from steyr to other european customers ,
the CH4D dies for the 500/450 musket no2 are correct to reload the
11,43x 60r romanian which is exact the same case !!!!
also found a correct ex romanian bayonet for this rifle
greetings from
jarmann

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