In the Netherlands I am reloading as well for my 1886 Martini-Henry mk4. Great gun with a great history. The cartridges are really large and big, on the gunrange people are amazed by the size haha.
The only reloading I ever did was 9mm, .38sp and .357mag. All very basic rounds. I did everything on a Lee single stage press. I grew to enjoy loading almost as much as shooting the rounds I loaded. I spent many hours having quiet time. One big difference I found was I could load rounds that worked better in my guns than any factory ammo. I could tailor the rounds for maximum performance. I had to give it up when I moved into senior housing (I'm 70 years old.) I do miss it and I recommend loading as a great rewarding hobby. Cool video Eric.
Eric, Although I am not a reloader I found this video very educational. I gave my son a 1875 Martini Henry rifle as a gift. BTW, We love the movie ZULU. I bought the rifle from Atlantic Cutlery and it was specially selected from the Nepal find. The rifle was cleaned and fired by a professional gunsmith. We had ammo from Ten X but it was all lost in a house fire in 2021, Now searching for ammo to replace what we lost. Fortunately, the rifle and bayonet are now in a gun safe.
Thank you for revisiting this topic. I was dismayed when you last video about this cartridge suddenly vanished. I like to anneal my brass again after the final sizing. I like the white cloud polyester fill produces. Much safer than glowing embers of cotton puffs too. Noting with interest your going for waxed lube bullets vs paper patched rounds. I find paper patched bullets leave a barrel that is easier to get clean, but then again paper patching each bullet is a lot more work. I did a video a few years ago about converting Kynoch brass to use 209 shotgun powders, but I agree brass with primer pockets already set up for standard primers is a lot easier, and old Kynoch cases sometimes split on their first firing anyway (also with extensive hang fires from the old primers and decomposed cordite) as well as getting harder to find economically
Just started reloading and I love it. Its like graduating to the next tier of the gun/shooting hobby. Learned everything I know from all the UA-cam reloaders. Very thankful for all of you sharing your knowledge. Now I'm getting ready for the next tier: bullet casting.
Thank you for your tips on forming the .577/.450 brass, it is very similar to my making 45-75 brass from .348 Winchester, I'm sure the annealing process is quite similar, as well as the the case forming. Great video!
I appreciate the video, brother. I picked up an Enfield Snider .577 and a Royal Kabul Armory Martini while in Afghanistan. I just recently bought dies for both and got my Magtech shells in the other day. My wife has never shot the Enfield I bought her. I did find some 1930's Kynoch 577/450 years ago. I never thought these two rifles would be anything more than a wall decoration in our living room. 😊
Every Sunday morning I go out to my reloading shed and do some reloading while watching Hickok 45’s Sunday Shoot-a-round, followed by your LLP. When you guys are done, so am I. Great videos, thanks.
@@paulvenn4447 me too, started with mosin reloads and watching the complete takedowns of the mosin and martini really got me into surp restoration and makin the old girls talk again. Latest reloads are 30-40 been a fun learning experience
I love reloading. I have never done black powder cartridges though. This makes me want to try it though. These type of videos are some of my favorites. As well as the gun restoration. Thanks Eric.
Good video I enjoyed it, I've been loading BP cartridges for quite a few years now but never the martini Henry. 45-70, 45-120, 45 colt, 32-40, 38-55, ect... One of nice things about black powder cartridges is that if you take proper care of your cases they will last hundreds of rounds, unlike modern smokeless high pressure cartridges.
Not sure if you know but this is actually an old video. Pretty much all of his reloading videos were taken down by UA-cam. So I'm guessing he's starting to get them back and they're backing off of him which is great
Very nice! I've tooled up with Bertram cases, FFg powder and I'm using the Lee 459-405-HB mold with wheel weights. It drops at .462" and seems to work just fine. Keep up the awesome work, hi from downunda!
Got the notification while jogging and for a second thought it said "Rollerblading for/with the .577/450 Martini-Henry". I kept picturing that for the rest of the run and chuckling.
I bought a Gahendra rifle because of you. I tried cleaning it up and make it look like the Zulu skin from Battlefield 1. Sadly I lost the guts and the wood when I moved out of my apartment and was never able to finish it. And now there aren't any more Gahendra rifles on IMA sadly. The stylized lever was my favorite part of that rifle. When I have more money I'm gonna get a proper long lever martini and hopefully get one that can shoot and then use this vid to start shooting.
Y’all should do a review of the .577-450 adapter to .45 Colt. It’s just a metal cartridge with a hole for the Colt round to fit so you can fire your martini a lot easier.
Very well done video on the loading for the Martini Henry. I have two of them and have actually shot some of the original Kynoch loads for it, not recommended. I like the bullet you cast for it because I am paper patching my bullets for it which is a whole nother thing. I have used black powder and smokeless loads for it based on load data I have found. The smokeless works really well because black powder is just now becoming available again. I load for this and the .577 Snider which is also awesome. I have also tried to form brass for the Martini but kept creasing the brass and I like your process which the key is annealing I think. This is one of the more difficult rounds to reload for and you obviously have a very good process for it. The video was very helpful.
That's a lot more work than using the Dillon Precision RL1100. But then again, I have no dies or brass for the Martini ... thank you, that was a lot of fun to watch
Great vid Eric, thanks for putting another one up. This is the type of content I love. If I didn't have Snider lust so bad I'd have a few Martini's but I can't seem to stop with the Sniders. One of these days.
I have never seen reloading other than shotgun. GREAT tutorial!!! I feel I could almost do this and I know how to run mills and lathes..attention to detail is where most fail. I will stick to the big box companies till then. Really good info!
Great stuff! Now do a comprehensive reloading video for the Schmidt Rubin M1889 :) I know you went through it in your video but a dedicated video for the reloading process would be so good.
Whoever's reading this, i pray that whatever you're going through gets better and whatever you're struggling with or worrying about is going to be fine and that everyone has a fantastic day! Amen
Great video, loved watching you form the cases. When I first got the itch to shoot my M-H's in 1982, only brass I could find at the time was I think from Australia and $100 for a box of 20. Lyman dies. I think my mold came from England and was sized to make a proper paper patched bullet. I've never seen a British military or even British commercial load that had a bare lead bullet without patching on the 577-450. Tried once with lead sized to the bore and accuracy was much worse, that rifling really does like a patched bullet. Be interested to see how your shooting goes. We used to take a press that would clamp to the table at the range, powder and pre-lubed and patched bullets in an old cigar box. Great job.
38:00 - Regarding "poly fill"... Which is basically a plastic, and can foul the barrel. There are several reputable reloaders that have recommended organic silk or cotton, for fill material.
I bought an extra Lee sizer die, cut it off right above the caliber stamping, and bored it out to .54". I use this die as intermediate sizer and it works perfectly. Anneal the 24GA case once, lubricate and run it through the intermediate die. Trim to length (actual case length should be 2.34") , lightly lubricate again and then run it full length through the normal unmodified sizer. This eliminates having to readjust the die during the sizing process and also drastically reduces the amount of force needed to run the case through the die. I have resized about 200 cases this way and have never lost a single case.
I have a martini and I want to make the ammo for it but I know you must get it right or things could go bad so I’m very excited for this been waiting a few years since your first martini Henry video came out
Here in UK, 577/450 brass is expensive at £9 ($11) each. The calibre is classed as obsolete so none is available off the shelf and rifles can be owned by anyone.
So nice to have some old-school IV8888 content. I first started watching you many years ago when this stuff was your main product. Feels like coming home again.
Every time I pull out the martini Henry and start lobbing lead at the range everybody comes over wondering what I'm shooting. It's not an easy cartridge to reload for but it sure is fun.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this video Erik! Thanks for the great content. One question, can you reload those shells after you fire them? Wondering how they look after they have been fired...
I really enjoyed this video, you may have said in the video but I was wondering how many reloads can you get out of one of the newly formed cases you just made?
Can y'all do a .41 Swiss reloading video? There's barely any information on my 1869/73 out there and I've been dying to find a reliable source on brass making and cartridge spec. Another one on top of that would be the .43 Mauser, but that's a whole can of worms in comparison since each 1871 Mauser variant varies drastically from one-another
They really need to bring back the 577/450 and manufacture it In higher pressures and standard smokeless powder. I'll be a beast of a cartridge. I'll be awesome in lever actions and double rifles.
I have a video request. I’d like to see how .17 HMR out to longer ranges. 100-500 yards or so. I think that would be super cool. You could also compare it to .17 hornet
Brass annuals at 600-800 degrees. Don't go by color unless you want to potentially blow up your guns. Buy a infrared thermometer for less than 100 bucks and save yourself the guess work and potentially ruining expensive brass.
Equipment Overview: 00:03:00
Trimming & Initial Setup: 00:08:36
Case Annealing: 00:10:39
Case Forming: 00:14:01
Final Case Trimming: 00:22:17
Final Case Forming Operation: 00:24:07
Testing Brass Fitment: 00:26:31
Bullet Sizing: 00:29:37
Case Neck Expanding: 00:32:17
Powder Charging: 00:33:08
Adding Polyfil and Paper Disk: 00:35:15
Adding Wax Plug: 00:38:55
Bullet Seating and Completed Round: 00:42:14
ERIC sir please watch my MELTDOWN BERETTA EPISODE 3 I made this video inspired buy you im your big FAN
You used the term impulse properly. What have you not told us Eric?
In the Netherlands I am reloading as well for my 1886 Martini-Henry mk4. Great gun with a great history.
The cartridges are really large and big, on the gunrange people are amazed by the size haha.
Not only the size of the cartridge.. What about the big bang and puff of smoke from one of these!
That's cool that you are able to do that in the Netherlands.
The only reloading I ever did was 9mm, .38sp and .357mag. All very basic rounds. I did everything on a Lee single stage press. I grew to enjoy loading almost as much as shooting the rounds I loaded. I spent many hours having quiet time. One big difference I found was I could load rounds that worked better in my guns than any factory ammo. I could tailor the rounds for maximum performance. I had to give it up when I moved into senior housing (I'm 70 years old.) I do miss it and I recommend loading as a great rewarding hobby. Cool video Eric.
Eric, Although I am not a reloader I found this video very educational. I gave my son a 1875 Martini Henry rifle as a gift. BTW, We love the movie ZULU. I bought the rifle from Atlantic Cutlery and it was specially selected from the Nepal find. The rifle was cleaned and fired by a professional gunsmith. We had ammo from Ten X but it was all lost in a house fire in 2021, Now searching for ammo to replace what we lost. Fortunately, the rifle and bayonet are now in a gun safe.
best rifle in Battlefield 1. hitting one taps when a wave of enemies comes over a ridge feels incredible
Thank you for revisiting this topic. I was dismayed when you last video about this cartridge suddenly vanished. I like to anneal my brass again after the final sizing. I like the white cloud polyester fill produces. Much safer than glowing embers of cotton puffs too. Noting with interest your going for waxed lube bullets vs paper patched rounds. I find paper patched bullets leave a barrel that is easier to get clean, but then again paper patching each bullet is a lot more work. I did a video a few years ago about converting Kynoch brass to use 209 shotgun powders, but I agree brass with primer pockets already set up for standard primers is a lot easier, and old Kynoch cases sometimes split on their first firing anyway (also with extensive hang fires from the old primers and decomposed cordite) as well as getting harder to find economically
Just started reloading and I love it. Its like graduating to the next tier of the gun/shooting hobby. Learned everything I know from all the UA-cam reloaders. Very thankful for all of you sharing your knowledge. Now I'm getting ready for the next tier: bullet casting.
This video is the gold standard of what it means to be passionate about the reloading science.
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Holy cow! Very excited to see the reloading videos make a return to UA-cam. Look at that youthful Eric 😉
This information will probably never be useful to me but man this is so interesting. Thank you for making videos like this. Makes my day
Thank you for your tips on forming the .577/.450 brass, it is very similar to my making 45-75 brass from .348 Winchester, I'm sure the annealing process is quite similar, as well as the the case forming.
Great video!
I appreciate the video, brother. I picked up an Enfield Snider .577 and a Royal Kabul Armory Martini while in Afghanistan. I just recently bought dies for both and got my Magtech shells in the other day. My wife has never shot the Enfield I bought her. I did find some 1930's Kynoch 577/450 years ago. I never thought these two rifles would be anything more than a wall decoration in our living room. 😊
Glad to see this video come back!
Every Sunday morning I go out to my reloading shed and do some reloading while watching Hickok 45’s Sunday Shoot-a-round, followed by your LLP. When you guys are done, so am I. Great videos, thanks.
Hell yeah man I miss the old IV8888 vids of reloading and deep cleaning. Comfy time
The OG vids, it's what got me into reloading 54R.
@@paulvenn4447 me too, started with mosin reloads and watching the complete takedowns of the mosin and martini really got me into surp restoration and makin the old girls talk again. Latest reloads are 30-40 been a fun learning experience
Glad to see this is finally back posted on UA-cam
I agree. missed this vid for a while.
im going to be doing a video on my channel this coming winter on loading 577 martini and snider. I do a lot of milsurp firearms content
GLAD TO SEE YOU RE-COVER THIS ONE
I will never turn down a niche reloading video!
i love reloading so much. i love learning about ballistics, calibers and cartridges. god bless and keep up the good work.
I love reloading. I have never done black powder cartridges though. This makes me want to try it though. These type of videos are some of my favorites. As well as the gun restoration. Thanks Eric.
Yeah I love the reloading videos you do Eric you should do more if you have the time
Sit back, relax, and enjoy the process. Thanks Eric.
Glad you reposted this info. I could not find your old one. I ended up passing on a nice Martini because I wasn't sure about making the ammo.
Good video I enjoyed it, I've been loading BP cartridges for quite a few years now but never the martini Henry.
45-70, 45-120, 45 colt, 32-40, 38-55, ect...
One of nice things about black powder cartridges is that if you take proper care of your cases they will last hundreds of rounds, unlike modern smokeless high pressure cartridges.
Hoping this one is backed up to Rumble or other platforms. I was hoping for a video on this topic after the Martini videos. Thanks Eric!
Not sure if you know but this is actually an old video. Pretty much all of his reloading videos were taken down by UA-cam. So I'm guessing he's starting to get them back and they're backing off of him which is great
Thank you for re-uploading the full version of this! Much appreciated.
Very nice! I've tooled up with Bertram cases, FFg powder and I'm using the Lee 459-405-HB mold with wheel weights. It drops at .462" and seems to work just fine.
Keep up the awesome work, hi from downunda!
Such a cool old rifle.
I can’t tell you how much I’ve wanted this video
FINALLY THIS VIDEO IS BACK!!! Have been asking about this for months! No idea why it disappeared last time but glad it's back. Thank you Eric!!!
UA-cam took down all of his videos pertaining to reloading for whatever reason. Happy to see it back and hope they back off in the future.
Fascinating. Thankyou
Love your reloading stuff. My favorite video of yours is the pumpkin ball slugs for 12ga. Easy to do.
The .577 Snyder is a beast. Even if it is a black-powder cartridge, it is still a monster.
Got the notification while jogging and for a second thought it said "Rollerblading for/with the .577/450 Martini-Henry". I kept picturing that for the rest of the run and chuckling.
I bought a Gahendra rifle because of you. I tried cleaning it up and make it look like the Zulu skin from Battlefield 1. Sadly I lost the guts and the wood when I moved out of my apartment and was never able to finish it. And now there aren't any more Gahendra rifles on IMA sadly. The stylized lever was my favorite part of that rifle.
When I have more money I'm gonna get a proper long lever martini and hopefully get one that can shoot and then use this vid to start shooting.
Man i usto really enjoy this channels reloading videos back in the day , didn't think they did them anymore so nice to see
Great video Eric. Love to see you doing content like this.
Hell yeah! I was looking for the video you did years ago as I just bought a MH a week ago. And now I see today you've posted this. Awesome!
Glad to see these coming back on UA-cam hope they get to stay up this time if not they’re still on bumble
Y’all should do a review of the .577-450 adapter to .45 Colt. It’s just a metal cartridge with a hole for the Colt round to fit so you can fire your martini a lot easier.
Very well done video on the loading for the Martini Henry. I have two of them and have actually shot some of the original Kynoch loads for it, not recommended. I like the bullet you cast for it because I am paper patching my bullets for it which is a whole nother thing. I have used black powder and smokeless loads for it based on load data I have found. The smokeless works really well because black powder is just now becoming available again. I load for this and the .577 Snider which is also awesome. I have also tried to form brass for the Martini but kept creasing the brass and I like your process which the key is annealing I think. This is one of the more difficult rounds to reload for and you obviously have a very good process for it. The video was very helpful.
Glad to keep watching your videos and seeing your influence on the community.
Thanks for your service as well.
What an awesome video! Thanks a lot for putting this together. I have enjoyed all the videos about this cool old rifle
That's a lot more work than using the Dillon Precision RL1100. But then again, I have no dies or brass for the Martini ... thank you, that was a lot of fun to watch
First Rate step by step process review with understandable detail when needed ... 10/10
I've reloaded this some, it's definitely a labor of love.
Love that LaRue sticker at 11:40!
Labor of love
Good to see this video come back. Nice work Eric!
nice job ,
This is awesome Eric, I've never had to fireform or do brass like that since I've reloaded. Great video as always
Great vid Eric, thanks for putting another one up. This is the type of content I love. If I didn't have Snider lust so bad I'd have a few Martini's but I can't seem to stop with the Sniders. One of these days.
Enjoyed this immensely. I think Ross Seyfried was using juice carton for wads for BP express loads back in the day, with wax in the stack, too.
I have never seen reloading other than shotgun. GREAT tutorial!!! I feel I could almost do this and I know how to run mills and lathes..attention to detail is where most fail. I will stick to the big box companies till then. Really good info!
Great stuff! Now do a comprehensive reloading video for the Schmidt Rubin M1889 :) I know you went through it in your video but a dedicated video for the reloading process would be so good.
Whoever's reading this, i pray that whatever you're going through gets better and whatever you're struggling with or worrying about is going to be fine and that everyone has a fantastic day! Amen
Thank you for that
Amen
Christ is King
Same back to you!
Peace be upon you and may God bless you.
you know we go to alot of trouble just to have something go boom
Excellent video mate. Very informative. Just what I was looking for. Cheers
Great video, loved watching you form the cases. When I first got the itch to shoot my M-H's in 1982, only brass I could find at the time was I think from Australia and $100 for a box of 20. Lyman dies. I think my mold came from England and was sized to make a proper paper patched bullet. I've never seen a British military or even British commercial load that had a bare lead bullet without patching on the 577-450. Tried once with lead sized to the bore and accuracy was much worse, that rifling really does like a patched bullet. Be interested to see how your shooting goes. We used to take a press that would clamp to the table at the range, powder and pre-lubed and patched bullets in an old cigar box. Great job.
38:00 - Regarding "poly fill"... Which is basically a plastic, and can foul the barrel. There are several reputable reloaders that have recommended organic silk or cotton, for fill material.
Saving this to watch tomorrow. But if I remember well you had an older video (or two) about this.
The history of the gun interesting con from Ireland 🇮🇪.
I bought an extra Lee sizer die, cut it off right above the caliber stamping, and bored it out to .54". I use this die as intermediate sizer and it works perfectly. Anneal the 24GA case once, lubricate and run it through the intermediate die. Trim to length (actual case length should be 2.34") , lightly lubricate again and then run it full length through the normal unmodified sizer. This eliminates having to readjust the die during the sizing process and also drastically reduces the amount of force needed to run the case through the die. I have resized about 200 cases this way and have never lost a single case.
Peabody invented it but Martini improved it and made it much stronger.
Thanks for putting out quality informative content.
Now let’s see the Martini-Henry melt down lol
You should make a similar video on making 577 snider rounds! Just a suggestion.
I have a martini and I want to make the ammo for it but I know you must get it right or things could go bad so I’m very excited for this been waiting a few years since your first martini Henry video came out
Very interesting, thanks for the upload
Here in UK, 577/450 brass is expensive at £9 ($11) each. The calibre is classed as obsolete so none is available off the shelf and rifles can be owned by anyone.
TAIG Micro Lathe? Thank you for sharing all the knowledge Eric!
As a member of the British Empire. I demand its return!!
So nice to have some old-school IV8888 content. I first started watching you many years ago when this stuff was your main product. Feels like coming home again.
Thanks!
Every time I pull out the martini Henry and start lobbing lead at the range everybody comes over wondering what I'm shooting. It's not an easy cartridge to reload for but it sure is fun.
Finally, some reloading content!
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this video Erik! Thanks for the great content. One question, can you reload those shells after you fire them? Wondering how they look after they have been fired...
Yes you can, Rob over on the British muzzle loaders channel uses a water tumbler with steel pins to clean his 577/450 martini henry cases.
Im sure someone enjoys this content but the vast majority of us do not have martini henrys. Hopefully youll do some more common calibers too.
Is this a repost? I feel like I’ve seen this before.
I was just wondering whatever happend to the video of you loading these rounds, good to see its back up
Great video thank you.
Love your reloading videos and gun smiting would love to see more of both your my by far favorites contact curator
A modern version/replicated model of this gun with a new caliber or the original would be so bad ass.
Awesome! I was wondering where this went
I really enjoyed this video, you may have said in the video but I was wondering how many reloads can you get out of one of the newly formed cases you just made?
What a lesson! Thanks a lot!
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the dutche brethren thank thee
This is a old video reposted about 4 to 5 years ago but UA-cam took it down.
Great video. I’m having to reload 7.7 Arisaka myself. You should do a collaboration w/British Muzzleloader.
the old rule...one hour on the reloading bench for every 10 minutes of shooting ;-)
Can y'all do a .41 Swiss reloading video? There's barely any information on my 1869/73 out there and I've been dying to find a reliable source on brass making and cartridge spec. Another one on top of that would be the .43 Mauser, but that's a whole can of worms in comparison since each 1871 Mauser variant varies drastically from one-another
They really need to bring back the 577/450 and manufacture it In higher pressures and standard smokeless powder. I'll be a beast of a cartridge. I'll be awesome in lever actions and double rifles.
Eric you never indexed the different parts in the description or comments? Very cool video and I appreciate it
I have a video request. I’d like to see how .17 HMR out to longer ranges. 100-500 yards or so. I think that would be super cool. You could also compare it to .17 hornet
Next video will be Eric forming new cartridges for his 88 FLAK gun. Problem is, he needs to pull it out of his local war museum for case testing. 😊
Is this new or a re upload? I could have sworn he did a video on this cartridge already. Regardless great video very informative.
Re-upload, original disappeared months ago randomly.
Wasn't this video released before? I could swear it came out back when you did the initial break down and degunking of the rifles
Brass annuals at 600-800 degrees. Don't go by color unless you want to potentially blow up your guns. Buy a infrared thermometer for less than 100 bucks and save yourself the guess work and potentially ruining expensive brass.
does that polyfill stuff melt or get stuck to the bore or brass?...
My dad used to own an actual Martini Henry rifle, but it was in .303 calibre rather than .577/450.
Hmm deja Vu. Feels like I seen this video years ago.