Heavy wadcutter rounds for 45-70

[Brass_dog]

Last hunting season I had the opportunity to shoot my friends Ruger No.1 chambered in 45-70. The rounds were loaded with these very heavy almost cylindrical bullets that looked strikingly similar to AccurateMold's 45-330g. These things devastated deer at the ranges we were shooting them from which was about a hundred yards and are in my opinion very well suited to the heavily forested area that I live in. The problem is that my friend picked up the bullets at gunshow and has no clue about the mold. I did talk to Tom about the 45-330g mold but he was fairly that it would have feeding issues in my firearm of choice, a new production Winchester 1886. He convinced me to get the 46-340V and I'll see how it works but it's a little light at 340 grains and the meplat is a little small. Ideally I'd like at least a 400 or 450 grain projectile of hard lead.

I'm sadly pretty ignorant on just how round the nose of a bullet needs to be to properly feed in a 1886 of if what I want will be greater than the OAL that will feed into my rifle. Do you guys have any ideas or suggestions?

[NSB]

I've owned or own at least seven different 45-70 rifles in Sharps, High Walls (my current favorite), 1886, and an Encore. ANY bullet out of a 45-70 is devastating on a deer. I have yet to recover a bullet from any deer shot within a hundred yards and at any angle. I probably will at some point, but so far at least a dozen have been all pass throughs. Shoot any bullet that shoots well out of your gun. Note: One of my guns, a Win/Miroku, like all Win/Miroku guns has a very short/non-existent throat that would not allow using blunt ogive bullets to chamber. Even the factory Rem 405 JSP would not chamber. I had to have it reamed (Turnbull.....they're pretty close) and after adding .250" more throat it feeds everything. A cheap repair, and the gun shoots lights out at 100 yards.

[Flailguy]

If you like the the design of the 46-340v, he also makes a 350, and a 405grain version