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The Darksider's Den / Re: Which rifle for BP?
« Last post by Mako on Yesterday at 08:36:38 PM »All these newbies and new fangled ideas...Who are the newbies and what are the new ideas?
~Mako
All these newbies and new fangled ideas...Who are the newbies and what are the new ideas?
Well obviously I’m too old and senile to be posting here much less fooling with primers and powderI don't see why you couldn't use Starline .40-65 brass as a basis for .40-60 WCF cases. The .40-65 WCF (also known as .40-60 Marlin) was based on a necked down .45-70 case. I never had to do this as I had a bunch of resized and shortened .40-60 WCF cases made by Buffalo Arms. Give it a try and let us know results.
Tried to pose a question regarding a suggestion in Venturinos “Lever Guns” but I put it on the 45-60 site….(sigh)
To get to the point:
He mentions shortening 45-70 dies to use reloading the 45-60
If this works then is the same course of action possible: using shortened 40-65 dies with the 40-60…
45-70 shortened for 45-60 reloading IAW Venturino
40-65 shortened for 40-60?
Thanks……..