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I've killed a lot of deer with the 405 gr. lee dead soft over 65 gr. bp. Good load for my 1895C.

.45-70. It was one of the Shiloh rifles that was ordered but not picked up. 30" heavy octogan barrel. Hartford model. Metal shotgun buttplate. Nothing real fancy, but the more I shoot it, the more...

New rifle.

I'm smiling.

Shoots like a dream.

Happy, Happy, Happy

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Yep, I called Shiloh yesterday and bought one the the rifles they had in stock.

A Hartford in .45-70, plain wood, Metal shotgun buttstock and a 30" heavy octagon barrel. No cheekpiece, double set...

Thanks for all the thoughtful replies.

I do think I'll opt for the .45-70. It's become my cartridge of choice for the last 5 years, both for the many plusses and overcoming the minuses it...

I shoot bp exclusively out of my 1895cb now, but have also loaded and fired "shoulder ripper" smokeless loads out of mine too. Dang fine gun. I have a bunch and the the weight and balance of this...

The last couple years I've done almost all my shooting with my 1895CB in .45-70 using the Lee 405gr over 62 grains of compressed Goex. With the Williams peep and bead front sight I can regularly...

Thanks everyone. I'll let you all know how I do next week. Have a good season and enjoy yourseves. The info is great.

Tnx for the info, and yeah, I'll let everyone know how I do.

I hope this isn't OT, I wanted to share.

If you guys remember, last year I was asking a bunch of questions about loading BP in my 1895CB.

It only seemed right to shoot BP this rifle. I cast a...

I have 5-tumble lube molds. A couple of them are RD's and the others are lees. Even the non-gas check bullets (.38 cal) shoot great thru my 1894 at up to 1300 with no leading. Wonderful accurate...

I'm using my time right now gunsmithing a rusty rescued 336 in .35 remington. I'm cutting it down to 16". I've already taken a lot of wood off it and shortened the pull to about 12.5"

Last weekend...

I use plain water on mine. It drys a short time later, and I haven't have any die leading problems...........

No flak from me, bishopgrandpa. The first thing I do to every lever gun I get is follow the Marshall Stanton firelapping proceedure.

All u need to clean any of them after you do it is a patch...

I came across this website a couple years ago by accident while doing a websearch for some odd thing or another.

I was immediately taken by a group by for the 180-359 buy going on and got in on...

I've hunted like crazy this year for something with antlers, but no luck. The only buck I saw all season was a really nice 4-point right in my front yard the weekend between regular deer season and...

I'm going to experiment with most of what you guys have sent me. I have AA-5, Unique, and W-231 (recommended in that write-up) and I can pinch some bullseye from a fellow reloading friend to try out...

Thanks guys you've all been a big help.

Thanks a lot guys. Jimkim that article is great.

I'm looking to make up some .444 plinker loads (1,000fps) for my .444 with plain base 240 gr. cast boolits. Can a person load up small doses on AA-5 for something like that, or do you have to go to...

I'm looking to make up some .444 plinker loads (1,000fps) for my .444 with plain base boolits. Can a person load up small doses on AA-5 for something like that, or do you have to go to unique or...

WBH,

Hee-hee that is not a house. It's the shape of the cardboard the targets are stapled to. I'm lucky that at work we get parts shipped on that stuff every week and so I'm privy to a huge supply...

Charlie, you are correct, it is pretty tall. What it does accomplish, is to let me sit straight up and shoot some fairly hard hitting loads without getting beat up. You are right though. I should use...

Exblaster, those sights are really interesting. What's the background on those??

Actually Charlie, that's the plan. I think I'm going to 1) mount the new sights and 2) shoot groups about a 1/2 hour apart cleaning in between each group. I did notice that after they got a certain...