Continuing with my new Shiloh 77

[Eric Johanen]

Randy you will really like that rifle. Shiloh did a beautiful job recreating the 1877. If you ordered the standard Shiloh chamber it will be pretty straight forward as far as reloading. My 74 44-77 uses Loomer's paper patch chamber and I can use the brass fireformed and just load a bullet into the case with no resizing or a slight neck sizing depending the bullet I load. Target loads I just insert the bullet and go. Hunting I slightly neck size with a bushing die to hold he bullet so it will work under field conditions. The Match reamer I used is a minimum dimension chamber and calls for a different loading system. It is tight in the body and the neck. I size the initial case with the die down on the shell holder to be sure it will chamber with no resistance. After fireforming the neck is just right to insert and hold a patched .450 bullet. I do chamfer and deburr on each loading.