All this has done is to make me want a .50 something! I wish .50 B'wolf barrels were not so expensive. Maybe I'll reline a 12 ga. Topper to .50-70. I've let my .50 muzzleloaders go, I'm switching to .54 there to match my pistol.
All this has done is to make me want a .50 something! I wish .50 B'wolf barrels were not so expensive. Maybe I'll reline a 12 ga. Topper to .50-70. I've let my .50 muzzleloaders go, I'm switching to .54 there to match my pistol.
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We shoot a 50-95 with a 350 grainer. With a case of 3F that 40-1 FN cast is chugging along at 1460fps. A 30 pound 10" gong at 300 yards gets smacked with enough force to make it swing back near horizontal. Off cross sticks an easy target with that heavy 1876 repro.
That load is easily duplicated (velocity) with 5744 and near as accurate with the same 40-1 cast.
That is what I would use. FN 350 grainer cast of 40-1 at 1450 fps. Lots of smokeless rifle powders will get it there.
Mike in Peru
"Come unto Me, all you who labor and are heavy burdened, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28
Male Guanaco out in dry lakebed at 10,800 feet south of Arequipa.
I killed a pair two years ago with an AR Beowulf using Alexander Arms non fragnible factory load . They were flat point well as I can remember and they did an ok job . I made handloads for the gun using Hornady rubber tipped bullets but as of yet none of us have plunked a deer with them . To be honest I'm
Not quite sure I wanna run cast thru any of the AR platforms at my disposal but that's just me .
Parker's , 6.5mm's and my family in the Philippines
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |