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Thread: Help. Fun things you can build on readily available 45-70 and 45-90 brass

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    Help. Fun things you can build on readily available 45-70 and 45-90 brass

    There are lots of very nice British cartridges I would love to build or rebuild rifles in.
    But going British is a real struggle because
    1- Random bore and groove sizes
    2- Seriously expensive brass or parent brass ... even if you could find some
    3- Chamber reamers are custom only and expensive to buy or very time consuming to make
    4- Reloading dies ... as per 3 above

    So the obvious ( boring ) and sensible ( boring ) thing to do is make a 45-70 or 45-90
    Both very good calibers.
    I have several 45-70s and love them.
    I have a barrel, chamber reamer and brass for a 45-90 and will build one as soon as I find a suitable action.

    But what I have also been doing is making a rough list of less common cartridges that might be interesting and fun to think about building a rifle for based on 45-70 and 45-90 brass.
    These two cartridges seem to have bucked the trend lately and generally been in stock or only out of stock briefly.

    This is my very rough list from the 45-70 case
    236 Remington Lee
    38s there have to be some ?
    40-60
    40-65
    40-70
    40-72
    40-75
    44-70
    45-60
    45-75

    And my list for the 45-90 case
    38-83* My own wildcat that i have dies and chamber reamer for
    40-82
    40-90
    44-77

    So who can add some more calibers to this list ?
    I'm certain there are plenty more
    The Church of
    John Browning
    of the Later-Day Shooter

 

 

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