Finaly got my NWMP, couple qestions on reloading.

[will52100]

Well I finaly found time to go pick up my new NWMP, well new to me, it's a slightly used one from Oklahoma Dee.  Very nice rifle, a lot lighter than I expected.  Only cosmetic problems I see is I may do something about the odd colored loading gate and the stock could use some tung oil or true oil, though it's fit and finish arn't bad and the oil finish is a lot better than most varnished stocks I've seen, the wood to meatl could be better, but no worse than any Uberti I've ever seen and pretty darn good for what is esentialy a military rifle.

I only put 15 rounds through it to check funtion and it worked flawlessly.  I will need to do something about the sights, eigther replace them with something differant or better quality OEM's.  They overdid the buffing, and the front post is near imposible to see.  I get some loads worked up I'll try a little sight black and see what that does.  The front sight may only need a small bead siliver soldered on.

The springs were a lot lighter than I expected, almost like it had an action job, the safty worked well and was light enough I never noticed it.  The dust cover is a little stiff, may polish the track on it to lighten it up a bit, but it works without to much trouble.

A couple questions on ammo, All the rounds fired were from Buffalo Arms, there reformed 50-90 starline sharps brass, 350 grain bullet and swiss black powder.  I will have to break one down to measure the bullet and powder charge.  I notice a bit of leading, nothing that didn't come out with cleaning easily.  Also the case necks were sooted up about half the length of the case.  I'm wondering if they anealed the brass before final sizing and loading and if I need to do that?  There was no blow by on the rear of the case.  The bore is so smooth and polished if I didn't know better I'd think it was chrome linned.  After 15 rounds the bore was evenly coated with fouling, nothing bad, but it took some doing to clean up.  When I load my own cast slugs from the lyman mould I'm wondering if I need to add a grease cookie?  Also I've got 30 rounds of .348 brass that was fired formed and resized for this rifle, do I need to aneal the necks of them to seal better?

Thanks Oklahoma Dee,  I'm a very happy camper, or I will be when my #31 shell holder gets here and I can load some ammo!

Will

[will52100]

Almost forgot, what would be a good recoil pad?  I like the kick killer, but the one I've got it way too big.  Also where or what are my rear sight options?  and does the "spanish meter" sight have windage adjustment?

Thanks, Will

[larryo_1]

Well, here I go again.  I tested 72.0 grains of Swiss 1½ under a BA arms 350 grain bullet and besides getting whacked good and proper on the shoulder, it shot great.  If you will look back a few pages you will find the report that I made for everybody on the tests that I ran.  The two that I wound up likeing the best were the Swiss load and 2400 rifle powder.  Today, I did a dumb thing and found that I can put 75 grains of Swiss in those cases with only a very little amount of compression.  So I loaded up 5 rounds to see if I can get the crap kicked out of me.  According to my Barnes Ballistics program that I have, the 72 grain load puts out about 21 foot pounds of recoil so that 75 grain load should encourage me to put on a slip-on recoil pad?  I don't know if this helps you much but anyway for what its worth here it is.

[will52100]

Thanks, I'll look up your post on reloading.  I managed to reload some brass, found 72 grains of 2F graf's worked pretty good drop tubed.  I would have used swiss, but all I had on hand was 3f.  I though I had more, but got some more ordered now.

Did a little work to the front and rear sight, I ground a steel nail down square and filled a bit off the back of the front sight and drill and silver soldered it on, doubling the thickness of the front sight blade.  Filled the rear sight a bit neater.  Soon as I get a chance I'll see if I can hit anything.  I've got to say they realy over done it on the rear sight, not a bad design, but good God they had to have used 800 grit rouge and been wearing gloves to keep fron burning there hands.  It the only spot on the rifle that is realy overbuffed, the rest looks pretty good.