You use a filler to keep the powder compressed so the smokeless doesn't mix? Don't think I would use Bullseye. It sounded interesting enough that I tried it. I read about adding a pinch of smokeless powder near the flash hole of cartridges in a book called “Loading the Black Powder Rifle Cartridge” by Paul A. Never thought of a touch of smokeless as a booster nor heard of it. I knew you wouldn't let us down this week! Good history & reloading data.
Many vintage firearms are unsafe to shoot and I do not advise use of this load data for other firearms since I do not know the specific firearm that may be involved or its condition. WARNING: Load data is provided for information only. Now it’s about 50fps above the original round, velocity is more consistent, and groups are slightly tighter. After that I tried a “duplex” load, adding 7 grains of IMR 4227 smokeless powder at the bottom of the case next to the primer, with 70 grains of Goex on top. In spite of being close to the original loads, by chronograph shows those reloads to be about 100fps slower than what my research says the original bullets fired (1443fps). From a rest I was getting 4” groups at 50 yards and 8” groups at 100 yards. I’ve also used 48.5 gains of Pyrodex RS to reasonable effect.
I used a 390 grain lead round nose bullet (originals were 385 gr) and I had satisfactory results with 77 grains of Goex fffg (an original I took apart had 77.6 grains black powder).
Antique 1914 german mauser rifle Patch#
I paper patch this round because the originals were, and it does seem to help reduce fouling.
08” and trimmed them to 2.370” to provide more uniformity. I don’t mix cases but I did re-drill all flash holes to. I have an assortment of cases Bertram, HDS, and even forty old Dominion cases (Dominion of Canada produced this ammo until, I think, the 50s or 60s). The 11mm Mauser (.43 Mauser) cartridges shown are original and not my reloads. Broke and maybe homeless, but happy.Īmmo: I’ll always put this at the end because I know it only interests a few. Moral of the story: marry a collector as crazy as you are and you’ll have a happier marriage. The sergeant major took out a home equity loan without his wife’s knowledge to buy the whole collection and was furiously selling off the guns he didn’t need to pay down the loan before his wife found out. Another collector passed away and the widow offered him the whole huge collection and was not interested in selling him only part. His collection was focused on Mauser model 98Ks. This is my first posting of several rifles I purchased from a sergeant major I once knew. The sling is a reproduction of an original German 1871 sling. The bayonet, ammo and pouches will be separate posts. I think the unit markings on the butt plate read “B8R (or B8B?).8.114” which I think may be the Bavarian 8th Regiment, 8th company, rifle number 144. (Although the Kaiser in Prussia was the German emperor, the various German states like Bavaria retained their royal families and equipped their own armies according to imperial standards). My ’71 Mauser was produced in Amberg, Bavaria in 1878, and bears the crown and letter L cypher of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. Fifteen hundred of them reached the hands of Irish Nationalists, many seeing action in the Easter Rebellion of 1916. Colonial German native troops, the Askaris, continued to use them through WWI. The Chinese were armed with them during the Boxer rebellion of 1900. Germany supplied them to the Boers fighting the British. The Model 1871 was used in conflicts long after it was obsolete. In 1884 the rifle would be produced with a tubular magazine inside the stock and be designated the Model 1871/84. There had been earlier bolt action rifles, but the Model 1871 introduced a bolt with most of the features still used in bolt actions made today: Self-cocking, self-extracting, flag-type safety, and of course firing a metallic cartridge. Mauser would go on to supply Germany and much of the world with his rifle designs through two world wars and beyond. This is Paul Mauser’s first successful rifle, being that it was the first Mauser rifle to be adopted by an army anywhere.