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Greetings, I own a winchester model 1893 40-60 wcf and I don’t reload. I would like to know if anyone out there would reload for me? Happy to pay for the service? Thanks
April 15, 2005
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Hello Charles,
The Winchester Model 1893 was/is a slide-action 12-guage shotgun. Winchester manufactured two different rifle models in the 40-60 WCF cartridge… the Model 1876 and the Single Shot (a.k.a. Model 1885). The reloading technique is different depending on which model rifle you actually have.
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
September 19, 2014
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If I may add to this, paying for reloads is not good practice on anyone’s part. The person being paid to reload a cartridge is open to liability and should have a license plus liability coverage to do so. The person using reloads someone else made is also a potential fool if some aspect is not done correctly and a misfire, hangfire, squib or over charge happens. Best scenario is to find someone local who can help you by teaching you to reload your own, maybe using his dies as well as his guidance. My opinion only. Tim
September 19, 2014
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For Charles as greater details. Buffalo Arms lists .40-60 WCF as being out of inventory, but you can subscribe for notification once its back in stock. They are licensed and insured for commercial loading and sales. They are not cheap but they are licensed and insured and load quality loads in new brass (often reformed from more available sources). You would be better served if unable to load yourself or with a knowledgeable person to help to use them. When they make another run of loaded, black powder, .40-60 WCF, that is. Tim
December 9, 2002
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I agree with Tim, as I’ve had great luck with Buffalo Arms. ammunition over the years! 
Anthony
January 20, 2023
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Concur with Tim. The license isn’t the problem as much as the potential liability of the loader if your rifle should turn into a rapidly expanding cloud of sharp, high velocity pieces. For reasons entirely outside the loader’s control.
If you should be only maimed and blinded, you could still take the witness stand (in the case brought by your wife against the loader for loss of consortium because you are too ugly, joined in by your minor children through their attorney ad litem for loss of support) and testify it was all your fault because you left a wad of cleaning patches in the bore.
If you should be rendered brain-dead or incompetent, much less well and truly dead, your testimony ain’t happening and the loader is up a gum tree with a jury unlikely to be fascinated by the technical niceties the loader says he observed while making up your cartridges.
It doesn’t cost very much to get an ammo-making license from BATFE but I would guess the Holy Grail Insurance Company’s insurance premium would be attention-getting.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
