The Dutch Model 1871/88 Beaumont rifle fires an 11x52mm black powder cartridge. For those that want to shoot these rifles, proper brass is typically unavailable. However, it can be formed from a few other cartridges that are close in dimension, 5090 Sharps is probably the easiest of those to obtain. In this video, I show how to form it into 11x52 Beaumont without a proper die set. I then test shoot them in the rifle, and then discuss how to reload the cases.
The rifle featured in this video was previously restored here:
• Dutch Model 1871/88 Beaumont Restoration
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00:00 Intro
00:52 Brass comparison
02:42 Trimming
05:26 Annealing
06:16 Forming the bottle neck
12:05 Brass comparison #2
12:39 Trimming #2
13:57 Loading
16:31 Shooting #1
17:04 Problem
17:47 Solution
18:12 Reloading
20:56 Shooting #2