10.6 mm German Ordinance

[Ptreece]

Working on loading for my M1883 Reichsrevolver. I have a few original rounds to go off of. They originally used a .430 260gr heeled bullet. I was able to find .430 250gr round nose bullet. I figure it's close enough. I'm using 44 russian brass and 16gr of fff goex black powder. I'm going to take a trip to continental this weekend to test them out. Has anyone loaded for this before? Any advice?

 

[willtill]

Wear eye protection. Very interested in how your reloads perform.

 

[Ptreece]

Wear eye protection. Very interested in how your reloads perform.

They preformed better then I thought! I loaded some more but decided to see how American Pioneer Powder will do. I have BP loads and APP loads to compare.

 

[Threeband]

You were shooting black powder in an indoor range?

 

[Melnic]

You were shooting black powder in an indoor range?

my thought exactly as this is very often frowned upon

 

[Ptreece]

Elkneck outdoor range

 

[Threeband]

That's probably better than Continental.

 

[Doctor_M]

Looks like you did a good job with those. I'm a fan of making old warhorses shoot again. Kudos!

 

[Ptreece]

Looks like you did a good job with those. I'm a fan of making old warhorses shoot again. Kudos!

Thanks! I'm a fan of it too! Next on my list is to find a Bodeo and load 10.35 Italian Ordinance.

 

[tjiann]

They preformed better then I thought! I loaded some more but decided to see how American Pioneer Powder will do. I have BP loads and APP loads to compare.

Will be interested to hear your comparison. My experience in comparing BP to APP in my long guns is you need quite a bit more APP to match the BP power.

 

[Ptreece]

Will be interested to hear your comparison. My experience in comparing BP to APP in my long guns is you need quite a bit more APP to match the BP power.

I ended up bumping the load to 20gr of APP and it did much better. Clean up was much easier with APP too.

 

[tjiann]

I ended up bumping the load to 20gr of APP and it did much better. Clean up was much easier with APP too.

Yup. 20% more APP was what I used. Definitely easier cleanup.