.50-70 Sharps, straight walled chamber, 450 grain bullet, and a heck of a lot of fun to shoot.
.50-70 Sharps, straight walled chamber, 450 grain bullet, and a heck of a lot of fun to shoot.
Whatever cannot be remedied, must be endured.
If you don't mind a JSP ( ), then a 200 grainer might be the ticket.
With H110 or 296 you can reach over 2000 FPS easily with a 20" barrel.
Flat shooting and lots of shock.
To continue, I once easily killed a buck at 70 mph with my Silverado. The problem was that the buck also killed my Silverado......and I hate the taste and smell of airbags
Shot a domestic sheep once with that boolit in a Rossi 92. Probably ACWW and 6 grains of Promo. Maybe 1100 FPS? He was a wiley one I couldn't get close to, but a shot presented when he put his head down to eat facing me. I shot him in the neck right behind the head. The boolit traveled the full length of his neck and exited his brisket. No doubt you will get plenty of penetration.
Amen! The 429215 has been my go-to boolit for about as long as I've shot a .44, out of SBH's and carbines and I never recovered a boolit from the deer. clean holes in and out. All penetrated completely. The slow twist is an advantage with a 1:1 WW:soft lead expandable alloy, though generally they don't expand.A GC'd bullet will best serve your needs. I found the GC'd 429215 can be driven to 1800+ fps safely out of 20 - 24" barrels with excellent accuracy and deadly effect on deer out to 200 yards.
I have a 1 in 38 twist, I launch 180gr cast bullets faster than Mark2.
RPMs with specific alloy is what is important, not the velocity alone.
RPM Threshold
There was a page with that info condensed, but I can't find it.
Also, I have shot deer with the 45-70 well below mark 2 and have turned the heart inside out; purely from hydrostatic shock.
after many years shooting 44 mag, with several different molds out of rifles and handguns I've come to realize why the 240 grain bullet is the most standard fare. it just works. I guess there is a balance between energy and speed that is just about right with this load. I'm not much of an accomplished hunter so can't really say if the semi wad cutter or the round flat is better but, my most favorites for accuracy is the hg503 design and 432640. I'm sure that with loaded over a full complement of magnum pistol powder like the h110, 296, aa9, 300mp, 2400 will kill just about whatever is within 100 yards as long as you place bullet in vitals.
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 |