Here is is cleaned and in operating condition:įinally, one of my Mk. back to the early 1890s chambered in the Morris cartridge and made by Francotte. Here's my Snider in "untouched" condition: Martini Cadet Front Barrel Band / Forend Retaining Pin (MCBBP) 10 00. It works out to about 40 cents per round. 58 caliber minie balls that I cast using a Lee mold. I load mine with 50grains of FFg black powder, approximately 25 grains (volume equivalent) of wheat bran to take up the extra air space, a thick cardboard wad and. They can be a lot cheaper to shoot if you make some "Plastic Snider Chow", using 24ga plastic shotgun shells cut to 1.9" in length. I did that on my last trip there, and am very pleased with it. Forming your own brass (as ceresco is doing) is the cheapest way to do it, as factory or custom loaded shells can run from $3 to $7 per round.Īnother good possibility from IMA is to get a P1864 Snider. 577/450 round is a fairly expensive round to shoot, even if reloading. 303 is far from cheap, these days, its a LOT cheaper than 577/450 I much prefer shooting my. It suffered from the Nepalese metallurgical abilities. I suspect the Francotte Tenon might be metric, but is close to a inch pattern and I have always been able to fit using inch dimensions. The Francotte however was an in house copy of, probably, a gun brought or captured. If the action is a Francotte the barrel trenon wil be even smaller. Get your Martini out and drop a loaded snider round in the chamber. A lot of this was caused by the great variance in bore size of the Gahendra and the fact that the Gahendra is a true 45 caliber while the Martini shoots a larger round. In 1878 the Francotte patent Martini System was granted utilizing a detachable mechanism fitted without the Cocking Indicator. The Snider and the Martini are only related by the use of the Boxers steel heads in. Having had the pleasure of examining many of these at IMA's Easton, PA location, I can say that the Mk.IV would be the best way to go as these seem to be in the best overall condition. I admit I am tempted to get a Martini rebarreled in. He also said the 577/450 was a necked down Snider, again wrong.
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