Yesterday's Weapons Forums

Great rifles the Martini Henry - I have either three or four in .450/577 and one of them I shoot now and again but only loose ammo I have here as my sealed packets I want to keep unopened and they are getting valueable now. I am still shooting large amountsof the foil cases though but now some go 'Fizzzz bang', some go 'pop', some go 'BOOM!', some go 'click.....bang' and some dont go at all. I have never reloaded for these rifles as I have had enough original ammo to keep me going but they are great fun. I also have a 310 cadet Martini but just shot off the last of my loose ammo for it as well though I have several full packets...I know I can used 32-20 in it as they are more or less the same cartridge and can also use the .32-20 relaoding dies to relaod. When I just want to pop off bullets at tin cans I still havemany live rounds for my cadet 297/230 so often shoot it off - I used to shoot off up to a hundred rounds a day with it as I had boxes and boxes of ammo but down tomy last thousand or so loose rounds now and a few full boxes.

Bertram is in Australia - you could get cases from him & hand load. My favorite 577/450 is a Gahendra from Nepal. Very accurate & uses the common .457 bullets.

I have a Francotte Martini I might never shoot - looks like a spiral-welded barrel. SW

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