Yea, Martini rifling is wild! That's what my avatar photo is on here.
Short answer... A LOT! The casings have to be formed from straight walled 24ga shotshell brass, annealed, trimmed. Then the bullets need to be cast, the correct thickness and length of paper needs to be cut for the paper patch. Then the casings need to be primed, loaded with 85gr of 2F powder, then a cotton wool filler, card wad, grease cookie, two more card wads and the bullet in that order. It's definitely not for the faint of heart, lol. This is the video I watched to get me started...
You can watch it free on YouTube
It's on Peacock too. And since I just subscribed to Peacock to watch the race, I just may watch it tomorrow. (Work is slow right now.
) I have it on DVD too, but I don't have a DVD player out on the deck.
I believe that is the design of Alexander Henry , hence the Martini-Henry. Brits we’re known to name rifles after such things. Later on was the Lee Metford bolt action, which was a James Paris Lee action with Metford rifling.
I send my brass off to Martyn Robinson at X-Ring Services to form. He charges $1.25/casing to form, but it's WELL worth it to not have to deal with the headache of doing it myself. I was lucky enough to catch the brass on sale on Ballistic Products for half off ($19.99/box!) I bought 4 boxes. Wish I would have bought more!
