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450 Martini wrote:
Yes very much so. I had a conversation with a dealer last year who intended to get 577-450 put back into production as he thought it would be a good money spinner. I pointed out that it would make him rather unpopular as all of those section 58 Martini-Henry rifles would probably revert to Section 1. Most who take the time to shoot these old beasts would just be happy with decent cases and availability of moulds and dies.
There are plenty of ammo producers who really don't give a monkeys chuff about the UK's s58. Currently there are a fair few cartridges on that "obsolete list" being newly manufactured now. The Sword of Damocles hangs over this category as it is....
In 1978 I was told by my grand dad that the secret to rifle accuracy is, a quality bullet, fired down a quality barrel..... How has that changed?
Guns dont kill people. Dads with pretty Daughters do...!
I would like to renew my invtation to take part in our survey. At the same time, I thank those forum members who already have.
Prelim findings: apparently home reloading is the British approach to tackle this issue. Still very interested to find out which rare calibres are in demand in the UK
i shoot obsolete calibres almost exclusively. I don't want factory ammo and i don't know any of my fellow shooters of antiques who do. What we do want is a good supply of obsolete calibre brass at good prices and also obsolete calibre dies. In other words, european competitors to Bertram and C4HD.
Fred
FredB wrote:i shoot obsolete calibres almost exclusively. I don't want factory ammo and i don't know any of my fellow shooters of antiques who do. What we do want is a good supply of obsolete calibre brass at good prices and also obsolete calibre dies. In other words, european competitors to Bertram and C4HD.
Fred
There used to be a company called Le Hussard in France that made obsolete caliber brass.
And another maker called Lynx HR who made brass and dies.
There is a list of them in my Vectan manual.
To all who have indicated that making obsolete calibres available is fraught with downstream problems, well done. Remanufacturing these things would, under UK law, be a complete car crash. Please explain this to anyone thinking of doing or dealing in these.
I would like to renew my invtation to take part in our survey. At the same time, I thank those forum members who already have.
Prelim findings: apparently home reloading is the British approach to tackle this issue. Still very interested to find out which rare calibres are in demand in the UK
