Equipment Overview: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="3">00:03</a>:00 Trimming & Initial Setup: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="8">00:08</a>:36 Case Annealing: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="10">00:10</a>:39 Case Forming: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="14">00:14</a>:01 Final Case Trimming: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="22">00:22</a>:17 Final Case Forming Operation: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="24">00:24</a>:07 Testing Brass Fitment: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="26">00:26</a>:31 Bullet Sizing: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="29">00:29</a>:37 Case Neck Expanding: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="32">00:32</a>:17 Powder Charging: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="33">00:33</a>:08 Adding Polyfil and Paper Disk: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="35">00:35</a>:15 Adding Wax Plug: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="38">00:38</a>:55 Bullet Seating and Completed Round: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="42">00:42</a>:14

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 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!

This video is the gold standard of what it means to be passionate about the reloading science. ⭐⭐🌟⭐⭐

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 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 KZbin reloaders. Very thankful for all of you sharing your knowledge. Now I'm getting ready for the next tier: bullet casting.

Glad to keep watching your videos and seeing your influence on the community. Thanks for your service as well.

Thank you for re-uploading the full version of this! Much appreciated.

Glad to see this video come back!

i love reloading so much. i love learning about ballistics, calibers and cartridges. god bless and keep up the good work.

Sit back, relax, and enjoy the process. Thanks Eric.

Holy cow! Very excited to see the reloading videos make a return to KZbin. Look at that youthful Eric 😉

Such a cool old rifle.

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!

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.

I will never turn down a niche reloading video!

Great video Eric. Love to see you doing content like this.

Good to see this video come back. Nice work Eric!

Man i usto really enjoy this channels reloading videos back in the day , didn't think they did them anymore so nice to see

GLAD TO SEE YOU RE-COVER THIS ONE

Yeah I love the reloading videos you do Eric you should do more if you have the time

First Rate step by step process review with understandable detail when needed ... 10/10

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.

I can’t tell you how much I’ve wanted this video

What an awesome video! Thanks a lot for putting this together. I have enjoyed all the videos about this cool old rifle

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. 😊

Hell yeah man I miss the old IV8888 vids of reloading and deep cleaning. Comfy time

I've reloaded this some, it's definitely a labor of love.

This is awesome Eric, I've never had to fireform or do brass like that since I've reloaded. Great video as always

Fascinating. Thankyou

Love your reloading stuff. My favorite video of yours is the pumpkin ball slugs for 12ga. Easy to do.

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!!!

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.

Excellent video mate. Very informative. Just what I was looking for. Cheers

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!

Glad to see these coming back on KZbin hope they get to stay up this time if not they’re still on bumble

Glad to see this is finally back posted on KZbin

Very interesting, thanks for the upload

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

Love your reloading videos and gun smiting would love to see more of both your my by far favorites contact curator

Saving this to watch tomorrow. But if I remember well you had an older video (or two) about this.

Great video thank you.

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.

Love that LaRue sticker at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="700">11:40</a>!

nice job ,

The history of the gun interesting con from Ireland 🇮🇪.

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 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

TAIG Micro Lathe? Thank you for sharing all the knowledge Eric!

Awesome! I was wondering where this went

Labor of love

The .577 Snyder is a beast. Even if it is a black-powder cartridge, it is still a monster.

Thanks!

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.

What a lesson! Thanks a lot! 🖖🏻🇫🇷😎🇫🇷😎🇫🇷🖖🏻

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

As a member of the British Empire. I demand its return!!

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.

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.

You should make a similar video on making 577 snider rounds! Just a suggestion.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2280">38:00</a> - 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 was just wondering whatever happend to the video of you loading these rounds, good to see its back up

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

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...

Very informative Video, Thanks!! Is the process of repriming a spent casing similar to the process of priming a new casing like what you featured here?

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?

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.

Great video. I’m having to reload 7.7 Arisaka myself. You should do a collaboration w/British Muzzleloader.

This is a old video reposted about 4 to 5 years ago but KZbin took it down.

Eric you never indexed the different parts in the description or comments? Very cool video and I appreciate it

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.

You should do this same type of video for 43 Dutch Beaumont I bought a Beaumont about six years ago after seeing your reloading video and shooting videos of one and I have not found a decent reload yet or source of ammunition and I don’t know if your original reloading videos are still available I haven’t been able to find them up

@iv8888 hey Eric, love the content. I was wondering if I could use some 7.62 nagant revolver bullets pulled from surplus ammo to fire form brass in any of my .311 bore guns? I remember you mentioning something to this effect before and I was just wanting to verify if this is a sound idea? Thanks 😊

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

A modern version/replicated model of this gun with a new caliber or the original would be so bad ass.

Is this a repost? I feel like I’ve seen this before.

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.

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

does that polyfill stuff melt or get stuck to the bore or brass?...

I can't find the video you did years ago on loading for the Dutch Beaumont. Can you re-release it?

Eric, the videos are great but I need to know why my cartridges are crimping. I have annealed mine and I go very slow but I keep getting the crimps at the start of the shoulder. Any advice?

I'm getting boer commando vibes from his bandolier in the beginning. Freudian slip?

Hello sir what die did you use to form the brass to the 577450 was it the decapping and sizing die in a set for the round or a differnet die and if possible can you provide a link. Hello from lake george ny btw

Great video very educational Can I use 85gr 2 fs schuetzen black powder instead of Swiss powder

Cool beans I would like to get a long lever .577/450 Martini -Henry and load for it would be a good Challenge

I don’t claim to know. However if like to know more about the “work hardening” when forming the necks??? It sounds possible, I just want some metallurgist to weigh in on it. I always thought after you heat treat the brass, you would have to reheat to harden it again. Just what read. However I’m curious exactly how this works???

Can you reload the brass you fabricated? Sorry if that's a dumb question but I'm totally new to handloading

are you able to get primers for a half sane price down there?

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

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.