PWM: Here are the measurements off the Cerrosafe chamber cast: Length, 1.95 inches. Rim: .600. Base: .518 Shoulder: .524. Neck: .485 diamter and about .465 deep. Rifling is seven-groove Henry style, and .448 is the smallest I can measure with the odd groove.
Posts: 16729 | Location: Las Cruces, NM | Registered: 03 June 2000
I recently came into a little Belgian cape gun and the rifle barrel seems (according to the chamber cast) to be chambered for the 11.15 X 50R cartridge, which is essentially the 11.15 X60R ".43 Mauser" with a shorter neck. Anyone have experience with this old BP number? Do you just use .43 Mauser dies and shortened cases? Thanks for any comments or advice.
Posts: 16729 | Location: Las Cruces, NM | Registered: 03 June 2000
I could be wrong but I think you might have an 11x50R Belgian Albini M67/72. Albini rifles used "lift block" actions. Another similar round was the 11x53R Belgian Comblain, but these were used in falling block type rifles employed in some South American countries.
Posts: 8169 | Location: humboldt | Registered: 10 April 2002
bill, this is a case for a kraut, we know over hundred different cases made from 11,15x60 R.yours is maybe one of this. please give more measurments, have you made a chamber cast and slug the barrel? 11,15x50R is maybe the old werder rifle cartridge,in fact the mother of the 11,15x60R. of course a blackpowder number. this is a rare chambering,allmost any of the werder rifles are rechambered for the mauser cartridge.
