I'm selling my Nepalese P64 Snider-Enfield Mk III. The gun is fully functional and I have shot it.
I'm located in Brownsburg and I'm asking $800 for the gun and accessories.
This rifle comes with bayonet, Lee case forming die (this is a large series die requiring your press can handle a 1 1/4" die, instead of the standard 7/8"), 49 pieces of Berdan primed brass, 10 pieces of Boxer primed brass, and 20 .58 caliber Minié bullets.
The P64 was England's first majory breechloading cartridge rifle, intially converted from the P53 Enfield .577 rifled musket with the Snider action. Later guns, like this MK III were made brand new with steel barrels, rather than the iron of the original P53. While the P64 was replaced in the British army by the Martini-Henry within a decade, it saw plenty of action in Africa, in Ethiopia and Nigera.
Rudyard Kipling mentioned the Snider's efficacy in "The Grave of the Hundred Head"
A Snider squibbed in the jungle—
Somebody laughed and fled,
And the men of the First Shikaris
Picked up their Subaltern dead,
With a big blue mark in his forehead
And the back blown out of his head.
Brass is relatively easily made from brass 24 gauge shotgun shells (Magtech makes these), cut down and sized with a reloading die. It's pretty easy to load for, with a charge of about 70 grs of FFg black powder (or RS Pyrodex), a filler like kapok (or semolina) to take up the extra space in the case, and then the Minié ball on top. It's a pretty fun gun to shoot and makes a nice satisfying smoke cloud. I don't recommend using smokeless powder rounds in the gun, though there is some load data out there using IMR-4198.
I'm located in Brownsburg and I'm asking $800 for the gun and accessories.
This rifle comes with bayonet, Lee case forming die (this is a large series die requiring your press can handle a 1 1/4" die, instead of the standard 7/8"), 49 pieces of Berdan primed brass, 10 pieces of Boxer primed brass, and 20 .58 caliber Minié bullets.
The P64 was England's first majory breechloading cartridge rifle, intially converted from the P53 Enfield .577 rifled musket with the Snider action. Later guns, like this MK III were made brand new with steel barrels, rather than the iron of the original P53. While the P64 was replaced in the British army by the Martini-Henry within a decade, it saw plenty of action in Africa, in Ethiopia and Nigera.
Rudyard Kipling mentioned the Snider's efficacy in "The Grave of the Hundred Head"
A Snider squibbed in the jungle—
Somebody laughed and fled,
And the men of the First Shikaris
Picked up their Subaltern dead,
With a big blue mark in his forehead
And the back blown out of his head.
Brass is relatively easily made from brass 24 gauge shotgun shells (Magtech makes these), cut down and sized with a reloading die. It's pretty easy to load for, with a charge of about 70 grs of FFg black powder (or RS Pyrodex), a filler like kapok (or semolina) to take up the extra space in the case, and then the Minié ball on top. It's a pretty fun gun to shoot and makes a nice satisfying smoke cloud. I don't recommend using smokeless powder rounds in the gun, though there is some load data out there using IMR-4198.
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