Hightwelve
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I "bit the bullet" so to speak (bad joke, admittedly) and ordered a Dutch Beaumont from Royal Tiger Imports. I know that feedback on these guys is all over the place so I went the extra money for hand selection and told them not to ship if the rifle is non functional. The guy over on the Forgotten Weapons site bought one and did a YouTube video evaluating it. He was quite happy that his is in reasonable shape and could be a shooter with no problem.
Brand new cases should not be a problem. I could not be happier with the .43 Spanish cases that I bought from Northern Shooters Supply in Australia and they have 11.2 X 50 Beaumont cases in stock. They were glad to take my order for .43 Spanish, the price was great including shipping and the only snag was that it takes them six weeks or so to get an export permit from their government. Their website is worth visiting. I had no idea that there is so much interest in shooting the old black powder calibers in Australia.
I don't plan to spend a small fortune on dies, at least not yet. Hopefully I can figure out a way using my .45-70 dies and/or .43 Spanish dies to load the cases. If anybody by any remote chance has a set of Beaumont dies for sale let me know. I know that there are two 11.2 X 50 variations as the Dutch took the rifles back to the arsenal around 1879 for modification for increased case capacity by moving the neck forward. Whether my rifle got the reamer treatment to rechamber for 11.2 X 50 version #2 I wont know until I do a chamber cast. I plan to slug the barrel first thing, too. There is a rumor on at least one forum that these rifles were made with a very gradual taper in the barrel to the muzzle, amounting to perhaps five thousandths.
Bullets? Loads? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Brand new cases should not be a problem. I could not be happier with the .43 Spanish cases that I bought from Northern Shooters Supply in Australia and they have 11.2 X 50 Beaumont cases in stock. They were glad to take my order for .43 Spanish, the price was great including shipping and the only snag was that it takes them six weeks or so to get an export permit from their government. Their website is worth visiting. I had no idea that there is so much interest in shooting the old black powder calibers in Australia.
I don't plan to spend a small fortune on dies, at least not yet. Hopefully I can figure out a way using my .45-70 dies and/or .43 Spanish dies to load the cases. If anybody by any remote chance has a set of Beaumont dies for sale let me know. I know that there are two 11.2 X 50 variations as the Dutch took the rifles back to the arsenal around 1879 for modification for increased case capacity by moving the neck forward. Whether my rifle got the reamer treatment to rechamber for 11.2 X 50 version #2 I wont know until I do a chamber cast. I plan to slug the barrel first thing, too. There is a rumor on at least one forum that these rifles were made with a very gradual taper in the barrel to the muzzle, amounting to perhaps five thousandths.
Bullets? Loads? Any suggestions would be appreciated.