.351 wsl

[redshooter]

I just picked up a Win SLR 1907 and am looking for a way to shoot it now and then and not go broke. I see that bullets and brass are available but the brass is steep and the bullets aren't much better. I'm thinking it's time to start casting or swaging my own bullets and if it's not to complex making my own brass from an existing cartridge such as .357 Max.

If any of you have been doing the above for this or another obsolete cartridge I'd welcome any source for moulds, dies, and other stuff (I travel to the US often so US suppliers in Mid-West/NE is good too). Any advice would be welcome as I prefer to learn from others folly since I'm so prone to get crazy ideas myself .

 

[Win Shooter]

I will say it first before the regular finger pointers lite there hair on fire, you can't bring back componets legally without permits, but do as you must.
But on a easier note I have just sold my 1907 and still have ammo, bullets and brass, unless you want to be called a smuggler

 

[farmnut]

I will say it first before the regular finger pointers lite there hair on fire, you can't bring back componets legally without permits, but do as you must.
But on a easier note I have just sold my 1907 and still have ammo, bullets and brass, unless you want to be called a smuggler

Nice, good think we have guys like you, otherwise we would all be in jail.
I would suggest you go and pedal your wares in EE.
OP send me a PM for shooting opportunities, unless somebody on here suggests some.

 

[redshooter]

I was thinking of dies, bullet moulds, and other tools to make the components that I can't take across the border. If I found some brass, bullets, or a good supply of loaded ammo I'd send it to a friend untill I get the proper paperwork done.

 

[Win Shooter]

Nice, good think we have guys like you, otherwise we would all be in jail.
I would suggest you go and pedal your wares in EE.
OP send me a PM for shooting opportunities, unless somebody on here suggests some.

You need to get a little more fibre in diet! I was offering the Op a home grown solution which he may or may take me up on. Like it or not the state department is screwing us over and there is nothing we can do about it without jumping through there hoops.

Bullet mold- NEI
Brass- Mystic precision

But it sounds like you are a tinkerer so mill down 357 max brass and shave .357 bullets down on a sizer from Buffalo arms or hone one up from a 338, readily available.
Theres not much allowed up from the states without the paper work, I've even had molds turned around, your luck might be smoother. It was just a friendly heads up without knowing your true intentions but it ruffles some peoples feathers

 

[smellie]

I am using a mixture of 50-year-old DOMINION brass and turned-down .357 Maxis in my 1907 with no problems.

One thing I did discover is that my rifle will chamber a case loaded with a 151-grain .355" plated lead slug (of which I have a tubful and nothing that requires a silenced 9mm), so I will be trying this combination. I know the bullet is oversize but it is also very soft in comparison to the factory heavy-jacketed .351 slugs which nobody seems to stock.

If you find bits and pieces of me and a 1907-built 1907 in your back yard, you'll know that the experiment didn't work out!

 

[sunray]

The .351 uses .351" jacketed bullets, .352" cast. Nobody makes 'em. Lyman makes or did make a mold for a 171 grain cast bullet, though. Bullet # 350319.
Quality Cartridge, Stateside, makes brass. Runs $65.99US per 50 from Midway. Midway doesn't export.
"...send it to a friend until..." Requires a U.S. licenced exporter.
I have data, if you want it.

 

[redshooter]

I've been scouring my ref for alternatives. Hornady lists a 200 gr flat point for the Win 348. Dia is .348", is .003" too large of a gap? Accuracy isn't an issue unless it endangers the guy beside me on the firing line.

 

[beargun]

I have been using 357 170gr swc sized in .356 sizer. My old 1907 maybe loose, but works good. Also make my brass with 357 max. 357mag start loads work and no bad signs on cases.