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Help identifying a shell

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  • #32
    Dummy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Dummy


    Belfast wrote: »
    Snider-Enfield
    Use today
    Enthusiasts still use these rifles today, with the number in circulation boosted by the acquisition by Atlanta Cutlery and International Military Antiques of a vast quantity of antique weapons held in the Royal Nepalese Armory in the Lagan Silekhana Palace for over a century. Ammunition is reloaded into either modern production .577 Snider cases, or reformed 24 gauge brass shotgun shells. Black powder or modern black powder substitutes are used.[4]
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snider-Enfield

    A picture of the end of the round would help.577Snider.jpg

    http://www.atlantacutlery.com/c-88-antique-militaria.aspx

    http://knives.atlantacutlery.com/search?SearchTerm=.577&x=0&y=0
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    Belfast,

    The second shell from the left in your line up of those four shells looks very similar to the one we have.


  • #33
    Dummy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Dummy


    I had a look through the other shells that were found and they are all equally corroded at the bottom and impossible to read an numbers or letters if there are any.


  • #34
    Belfast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭Belfast


    The Snider .577 ammo might have been hand made by a gun smith.
    the cartridge may not have had any writing on the end.
    later cartridges were all machine made and would all have had markings on the end.


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