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...
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Forum: Single Shot Guns
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...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
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 -...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
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...
Forum: Leverguns
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...
Forum: Leverguns
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...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
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...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
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...
Forum: Leverguns
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...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
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...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
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...
Forum: Leverguns
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...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
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...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
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...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
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...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
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...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Near as I can tell, it was pretty close. Seems like Carson got sued over that comment as well.
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Sad thing is, I remember that Johnny Carson episode!
Forum: Muzzleloading.
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...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
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...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
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...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
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...
Forum: Single Shot Guns
Kevin I have never slugged my Garrett bore, but the cast bullets I shoot (unsized) run about .511-.512.
Forum: Single Shot Guns
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...
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