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I have several .45-70s trapdoors, sharps, and Marlin lever actions, with all but the trapdoor rifle (32 inch bbl) I use 405 cast. I have killed everything from deer to elk and a lot of rocks. My...

Of all the old guns I reload for, the .43 Spanish seems to be the most persnickety. After I get through reloading, I find that half of them won't chamber all the way in without excessive force -...

You might want to look into some duplex (a few grains smokeless under a main charge of Black). I had one I used several years ago with my 500 grain .45-70 bullets out of my trapdoor rifle. Seems...

I have an LC Smith double barrel hammer gun with Damascus bbs and I have fired it a lot, mainly with black powder loads (75 grains FFG and 1 1/8 oz shot) and it seems to do just fine. I have also...

I regularly shoot my 94 (its actually a model 64 rifle with the half magazine) with 170 grain cast at around 1500 fps, in fact a few years ago I took that very combination on the doe hunt. I shot...

I too feel a lot like many others on this thread, and all the input may be overwhelming, but it is nice to get a different perspective on something before you actually buy. I have owned and still...

I, like bikerbeans, will be taking my LC Smith 12 gauge side by side hammer gun into the turkey woods. I shoot approx 3 dram (80 gr FFG) black powder reloads with 1 1/8 oz of number 4 shot Velocity...

On my old guns that don't have much blue left, after I have shot and cleaned them, I put on a good layer of car wax (pretty much any kind will do), then after it drys, buff it off like you would your...

I've always had better accuracy luck with the solid frame revolvers like the 1860 Remington, however, that last 51 Navy .36 surprised me as I was hitting soda cans consistently at 15 yards. I have...

My Marlin .45-70 likes the 405 grain cast bullets better, it's not that it won't shoot the 300's but I would have to swap out my sights as they print about 8 inches high at 100 yards. The 405's are...

I make .38-56 cases all the time for my 86 win and have found for some reason the Hornady Leverevolution (sp) cases are about 1/16 to 1/8 inch shorter than all my standard .45-70 cases. Those are a...

I've been shooting the .50-70 ever since I bought one back in the 1970's. It was a Garrett Arms and since then I have acquired a couple more - 1868 Springfield and a Whitney Phoenix with Freund...

Rpludwig,
I too used a lot of .30-30 brass formed to .32-40, but they are too short to reach the crimp in the .32-40 die. I did use a factory crimp die I had in .32 SPL, which worked, but mostly I...

Ya I know Enfield, I did have a little Marlin 25-20, it had a very rough bore and the internals kept jamming, I got tired of fighting it. I have a .32-20 and a .218 bee so the .25-20 is pretty much...

I have been loading and shooting .45-70 cast and jacketed bullets for the better part of 40 years and for hunting, I always come back to the Lee 405 grain. I have all but worn that mold out over the...

MRGoodwin,
I have the very same Lee mold and I have been shooting it for years unsized. I have an 1868 Springfield, a Whitney and a Garrett Arms Sharps carbine all of which I shoot the bullets...

I have a bag of new .25-20 (50 or 100 can't remember) cases as well as 400- 500 already cast/lubed bullets I bought from Midway a year ago. I ended up selling the gun don't have any use for the...

Near as I can tell, it was pretty close. Seems like Carson got sued over that comment as well.

Sad thing is, I remember that Johnny Carson episode!

I remember reading a reprint of his article in a black powder/hunting magazine my first year in College back in 1975, my guess would be that he wrote it sometime during the 1960's soon after the...

I have both Pedersoli Sharps rifles and carbines and I find that, especially in the rifle that weighs 10-11 pounds, standard black powder velocity loads even with 500 grain bullets don't recoil that...

I agree with Marlinman93. I have several .45-70's from original trapdoors, Rolling blocks to modern Marlins and Repro Sharps. Especially in the originals, I keep the velocity down to original black...

I have several old 19th century military rifles, one of which is a Dutch Beaumont .43. I found some original cartridges and thought I would shoot a few for brass to reload, but two of the primers...

Kevin I have never slugged my Garrett bore, but the cast bullets I shoot (unsized) run about .511-.512.

I bought a 74 Garrett Arms carbine in 50-70 way back in the late 70's before they went out of business from Shotgun News. My dad owned a store at the time and had a firearms license. Cost me $200...