The 411 bullets from Hornady and Northfork shoot well in my Winchester model 95 reintroduction rifle.
But keep in mind that the 405 brass is pretty long and unless you can come up with 405 brass, reformed 30-40 and the like will fall pretty short and may or may not cause some leading problems with cast bullets.

If you could solve the brass problem for 405, getting a 405 blank from Douglas probably your best bet.
I believe in Ken Waters book, he describes turning 9.3x72 brass into 405, but I'm betting that would be pretty hard to find at affordable prices now as well.

beltfed wrote on Mar 6^th, 2024 at 4:34pm:


Agree 40-65 solves a lot of problems.
I've made 405 from 9.3x74R but they're a little short.

Used to have a 405 1895 but always wanted a highwall in it

Might consider a 9.3x74R as brass is plentiful now, and reamers are easy to find also. Wouldn't be an elephant gun, but would be appropriate for your beautiful rifle.

Thinking of a rebore, the smart move would be sell it or rebore to 30-40 Krag. The twist rate on the McGowan 6mm barrel is the old 6mm Remington twist, so it doesn’t stabilize longer bullets. I don’t need another deer rifle, I was just thinking of something different. 9.3x74r might be the way to go. If I rebore, I can use the existing scope mount, and if I stay with a rim size that is near .545, no extractor mod or fitting is necessary.
Mike

What about. 303 British that's a caliber that saw use in Africa and the case head size is close to the krag.

About 7-8 years back I had C. Sharps build me an 1875 model in 405. I didn't get to shoot it though, a friend would not give me a rest and gave me twice the purchase price for it.... Always thought I would get another but too many other projects are in the way 

When Hornady brought back their .405 brass I was very excited and bought every 25 pc. bag I could find. Back then they ran about $30 a bag, and I built up a good supply. Then suddenly Hornady dropped it with no warning!
But a few years back Gary Reeder Custom Guns got in a back order that they had ordered long before Hornady stopped. His order was 20,000 cases and he sold them at the old price before they went crazy. He had a 500 pc. maximum, and I ordered 500 pcs. I told some friends the next day, and when they called the entire 20,000 pcs. were already sold.

yamoon wrote on Mar 9^th, 2024 at 11:26am:


I've never lost a case yet. Mine are all shortened to .40-63 Ballard or .40-70SS and none have split. But my pressures are down around 18000-19000 and velocities around 1350 with 4198 smokeless powder. 
If I ever lose a case it will likely because I damaged or dropped it, not from reloads.

craigster wrote on Mar 9^th, 2024 at 11:51pm:


The cases Donelly mentions as a compromise are the .30-40 Krag he states are short. But BACO was somehow stretching them to be as long as .40-70SS or .40-63 Ballard, but never to .405 length that I know of. Those stretched cases were pretty thin though.