Originally Posted by
Korium
It was a project I always meant to try, but never got around to! There's useful info to be found, such as
this on Gunboards, the
Swiss Rifles Forum, and
Cast Boolits has had quite a bit of discussion about it too.
There's a YouTuber called Bloke on the range (Englishman living in Switzerland) that does a lot of videos on older Swiss rifles. I expect he'd have some interesting insights as to how the Swiss load for the cartridge.
It's very popular for many older military calibres in the US. I haven't tried it in 7.5 Swiss, but from using it in other chamberings and reading up on it, it's not very tolerant of light loads in some calibres.
I've had various conversations with Mike about reloading for cast, he gave me this link if its any help I am still torn between loading cast in my K31 for gallery and putting my M1889 onto my FAC
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