The 40th Infantry Division

[Enfield]

Originally Posted by mpipes

Just as a side note, I was doing Cowboy Action Shooting in the mid-90s and one of the guys brought in a mint condition 1884 Springfield Rifle. A buddy of his helping clean out a warehouse at the Red River Arsenal found a full crate of carefully packed rifles! The crate left in his pick up and the rifles were distributed to friends and relatives.

That is awesome. So a question: ammo? A bit of research tells me that one would have to use cast bullets with blac powder. Is this true? Would PCs if they found such a crate have to make their own rounds?

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by Enfield

That is awesome. So a question: ammo? A bit of research tells me that one would have to use cast bullets with blac powder. Is this true? Would PCs if they found such a crate have to make their own rounds?

There are specialty providers of ammunition a person could order correct ammunition from for these. Most people would still hesitate to fire live ammo through something like this. You never know the quality and doing so degrades the collectors value.

There is alot of bullet molds, cases, case shaping methods, and gun powders for this though.