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OE gives more velocity and less fouling than Swiss, everything else being equal.

Great deer, great rifle, and great load. Congratulations all the way around.

Hossfly got it right. Southern Maid on Hearne avenue in Shreveport, La. has the best glazed donuts on the planet, hands down. They actually had three mynah birds there when I was a kid, but they...

Use the coathangers. It works. Trust me.

Mak--Listen to Lead Pot. He knows what he is talking about. In my experience, going back and forth between black and smokeless will keep your barrel from settling in. Also, and I have gotten...

Brent, if that new Badger barrel is an 18 twist or faster, you won't get much better than what you are getting accuracy wise with a 410 grain bullet. It's too short to shoot well with that twist. ...

I don't know the neck thickness, as the rifle actually belongs to a friend of mine. He bought it at the Tulsa gunshow with no dies and no brass, and brought it by my place looking for help getting...

A saeco 640 works like a champ on a Shiloh 40-70 BN. Cases were formed from Starline 45-90. It hammers hogs and deer.

Agreed. Capt. Robert Rogers of Roger's Rangers required that his men carry a pound of powder and 60 balls with them. I examined mountain man Mariano Modena's rifle and bag in the Denver museum over...

I have quite a few empty Goex black powder cans. What do you consider antique?

The poly wad is the problem. It expands radially and grips the case wall tight enough to stretch the case on the way out. Try a Walters wad or one cut from a milk carton or cereal box and you will...

Oh, boy........

$100 is way too much for an entry fee to shoot a no name BPCR match. And you wonder why attendance is down?

Not much. When your eyes start to go, GET GLASSES. Don't go drilling a bunch of holes in the barrel.

A lovely lady with a very nice buck taken with a 45-70 and a common sense load. And she rattled him up to boot! Congratulations to both of you.

My experience is the same as Kurts'. Drop tube and no compression or drop tube and compression, depending on the rifle/caliber always gives me the best results. Add vibration to the mix, and...

Congratulations on a very nice cat. Likely the trophy of a lifetime. He appears to have been eating extremely well, for sure.

I would recommend what I use in my 1895 Marlin 45-70, and have used it for years. It is a 457121 Lyman, now frequently called the Parker Hale. Weight is 475 grains at 20-1, has a generous meplat,...

The drawback to an 18 twist is that it doesn't shoot lighter bullets well at all. My 18 twist rifles start to shoot at about 475 grains bullet weight. My 20 twist 45's will shoot anything between...

Moose-check your PM.

Moose--What kind of rifle are you shooting? I think we may need to talk. You are setting yourself up for a train wreck trying to hunt elk with a BPCR and a scope. Seen it happen, trust me.

The 513 grain RN will shoot all the way through a buffalo at 1000 yards with a muzzle velocity of 1139 fps. I have killed three elk, two with a 45-70, and one with a 45-110, using black powder and a...

You want a through and through WITH an exit wound in front of the diaphragm. The entrance wound will often fill with fat and tissue and thus not give a good air leak. The internal pressure inside...

I'm not really an expert on elk, but I have taken three of them, one with a Shiloh 45-110, and two with a Shiloh 45-70. Based on my results, and watching a couple of my friends take elk, I will say...

Two grains is a LOT of weight variation. Think more along plus or minus two tenths variation.