Well, phooey guys! I love fooling with these transitional guns too. I owned a Maynard .50 and a .54 Merrill for a while and they were a lot of fun to shoot. The Merrill with its deep rifling was particularly accurate. I miss them both.
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Re: 1860 Gallagher Carbine made by ERMA in West Germany
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Re: 1860 Gallagher Carbine made by ERMA in West Germany
Bought a new Erma Gallager last month without the Erma brass. So I ordered brass from GEBU, has thinner walls than the Erma brass. Holds 50gr Swiss black powder #2 with a 3mm felt wad and a heeled .451 bullet (490gr) not compressed. The doughnut shaped bo...
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Re: 1860 Gallagher Carbine made by ERMA in West Germany
I like that bullet. Is that for Sharps originally?
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I purchased one of these moulds http://stifters-gunflints.de/shop/detail.php?item=2771&d=d_H_M54G_Hensel_Kokille_fur__54_Gallagher.php direct from Hensel and it works really well in my Gallager.Regards, Peter B.
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After making five cartridges I give it up, need a loading press because manual bullet seating/setting (?) is a pain...
Now I will try differend loads, maybe Swiss # 3 or othe black powd...
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I have a Gallager tool that I can use in my press, but the inside is not contoured to the nose of the bullet, and after pounding it to get the flared base of the bullet into the brass, the nose is deformed. That's why I want a heeled bullet. A press fit...
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Didn't read all the posts but I had one a few years ago.... Very hard to get to fire.. Too many twists and turns before fire gets to small hole in cart. Also gas leaks burned my forearm... If there is interest the thing is for sale.. A friend of mine sti...
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RSL,
Feel free to post it here in the Yard Sale forum, but your friend could probably get a better price on the N-SSA bulletin board at www.n-ssa.org. The Erma guns go for $800-1100 depending in what things you throw in with it.
Personally, I'd take a ...
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