In comments here, Michael Z. Williamson dropped a link to an awesome French website that sells reloadable shells for old .32 and .41 rimfire guns and reloadable pinfire cartridges, as well as several other black powder calibers. They have a reloading kit for 11x59R Gras!
They'll even ship to the US, although international shipments obviously don't come with primers, but that's a minor obstacle...
French, eh?
ReplyDelete.22 blanks as primers, for the few chamberings they have images of. Berdan or Boxer for the others? (My bet is on the former...)
If you dig through the website enough, they seem to have images of nearly everything, it's just organized about as well as you'd expect "Jacque's Antique Reloading Shacque" to be. ;)
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Très jolie, mec! Beaucoup de plaisir et de vêtements sales vous attendent!
ReplyDeleteVervolgens wordt een 71-88?
Who let that furriner in here?
ReplyDeleteComme mon amie La Hon dit une fois à un Français à Nîmes,
ReplyDelete"Étrangère? Mais non, vous vous trompez.
Je suis Anglais.
C'est vous qui sont les étrangers."
I swear by 19 Rue St. Honoré, the captcha is LIQUE
Loved the links:
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You think civil re-rennactors are nuts, there's Napoleonic War re-enactors too... on horses, charging
"Is Tamara OK? She hasn't posted in DAYS!"
ReplyDelete"Oh, no, she's juts trying to decipher Froggish instructions for reloading ammo no one thought existed..."
WV: herwha. She's reloading her wha'?
is the .41 rimfire on that site what's used in .Swiss Veterlii rifles? My cousin has one, well, technically his wife does, and to my knowledge it's never been fired since she got it because of a serious lack of ammo. AS luck would have it, I've got him for the secret santa this year, so that would be cool it if would work.
ReplyDeleteSadly, no. :(
ReplyDeleteThose are the .41RF Short used in Remington-pattern derringers, I believe.
The most incredible!!!!!!!!:
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gandalf, there are ways to convert the rimfire Vetterli to centerfire.
ReplyDeleteOOOHH!
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna write that out on a post-it and give it to my dad. Thanks! He loves old pinfires.
Hey, I've got a friend with an old Remington derringer and maybe ten rounds remaining; I think he's already ordered the sample set to try out.
ReplyDeleteThere is a whole bulletin board with numerous threads on reloading the .41 cartridges in the Swiss Vetterli on WWW.theswissrifles.commessageboard.yuku.com.
ReplyDeleteThey give instructions on converting the rifle to .41 center fire, and thereafter reloading formulas.
Heh ... that end of the pool gets deep.
ReplyDeleteTime to collect euro pinfire revolvers. They are fairly cheap.
Dixie gun works does sell .32 rimfire reloadable shells. You shove .22 acorn blanks into the offset primer pockets, and load with black powder and roundshot.
Kristopher: I believe Dixie gets them from the guy in France...
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