I suppose you might google 45-70 blank ammo and get a lot of hits. Try this one. It shows several samples in the first few replies.
https://forum.cartridgecollectors.or...70-blanks/1705
Navy used 45-70 blanks for line throwing gun. Someone gave me a bunch of the brass.. Didn't like the brass.
When I was mining, they used a 45-70 ram set laying track. The track went from the mine to the mill. Had a few fired brass and they loaded, shot fine.
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In 1972, I was in the Navy. On the USS CH Roan DD 853 we had a H&R line throwing guns.
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http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...2441-Ron-in-PA
One of the most prized rounds I have in my collection is a blank .45/70 that was one of the blanks used in the movie `The Last Samurai`, had a friend working on the set at the time.Robert
Robert,
I also worked on some film sets. The most exciting was as Brad Pitts's stand-in on Killing Them Softly for about three weeks. There was a scene where Brad's character shot someone with a semi-auto pistol from a passing car. I picked some of the casings up, and when I was traveling to visit Mom - who's a huge Brad fan - they wouldn't let me take them on the plane. Empty casings. ********!
I was thinking I may like to sell these to re-enactors.
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The action is the same, but it had a spool on the barrel.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
-Theodore Roosevelt
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...2441-Ron-in-PA
Navy from '64 to '67 and they are line throwing blanks M32's I believe for the H&R line throwing single shot rifles. Even though I worked in the engineroom always seemed to get stuck when replenishments came around. Frank
Yes, had a couple of the fired cases from those line throwing H&R rifles. I lost them and weidener's had them on sale some years back. Got about 500 or so and no crimp. I'm assuming that they had some sort of wad either glued in place much like the old brass shotgun shells that had the shot charge printed on them. Mine are headstamped WCC 67 M32. OK, just looked in my copy U.S Army small arms identification book which lists this cartridge. Appears there was a crimp and the mouth of the case was sealed with red lacquer. So based on the above info the crimp was straightened out when these cases were demilled way back when. Cases look just like regular 45/70 cases except for the headstamp. Have resized a couple and stuck a 500 grain hornady softpoint in them. Fit just fine in my Ruger #1. Frank
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Aren't M32's loaded with black powder ? I have a couple of emptys in my collection WCC53.
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 |