Most accurate 45-70 load

[30calpal]

Sorry if this is a re-hash, I tired the search under 'most accurate', 'favorite', and '45-70' at the end but I kept getting a mixed bag of 800+ hits on the search. So, I say...
I'm looking for yall's input on the most accurate load with a cast boolit in the 350-400 gr range. I have the NOE 460-350 and I'd like to start load work up in a couple months. By that time I should also have the NOE 4 cav 379-235. Thanks for all your suggestions.

[45 2.1]

Here is one shot by BABore some years ago. It's quite possible to do when you know how.

[41 mag fan]

How about for the 405gr and 425gr molds also. I'm in the same boat, tried all sorts of variations of wording for loads with no luck

[Doc Highwall]

What gun are you going to shoot them out of and what distance?

[41 mag fan]

For me a Browning 1886 and new Marlin 1885

[knifemaker]

My most accurate 45/70 load consists of the Ranch dog 350 gr. cast boolit sized .460 with white Label BAC lube in front of 43 grs. of IMR-4891 for about 1800 fps in my Marlin 1895 LTD-V. I seat the boolits where they just touch the barrel lands and get consistant 3/4-1 inch 3 shot groups at 100 yards.

I also have the NOE 350 gr. mold and accuracy "IN MY RIFLE" is not quite as good as the ranch dog boolit, but very close, 1-1/2 in groups. In your rifle the NOE boolit may prove to be very accurate. You just have to try it with different powders and seating distance. 44 gr. of IMR_4198 was also accurate, but going above that and the groups starting opening up and I settled on the 43 gr. load as my standard hunting load. That 43 gr. of IMR-4198 was also very accurate with the Hornady 350 jacket FP bullet, which is a .460 sized bullet.

[btroj]

I get very good results from 24 gr 2400 and a 420 plain base in my Marlin. Regularly goes under 1.5 inches at 100 from a bench. I can't ask for more than that.
I get similar results from 22.5 gr of 2400 if I use a bit of Dacron as a filler.

[runfiverun]

i basically use the same as brad.
from 22grs on up.
lately i have been at 24.8 grs sometimes with and sometimes without dacron.
the dacron is for hunting and without is for the range.

[NickSS]

I have several loads that have proved to be very good to excellent. My old hunting load used in both a Marlin 1895 and a Ruger No 1 rifle was very accurate and usually resulted in a clover leaf 3 shot group was a Lyman 457124 385 gr RN over 42 gr of IMR 3031.

A good all around target load that provides black powder ballistics is 27 gr of AA 5744 and any 325 to 425 gr bullet. This load usually will shoot 5 shots into under 1.5 inches in several single shot rifles I own.

I also get excellent results with any 400 gr bullet and 24 gr of 2400.

[wolfe28]

Not to hijack the thread, but does anyone want to share a favorite load with a 325g cast (lee) projectile and varget? I've got a 24" Encore barrel that I haven't shot yet, and I'm putting new sights on it as well, so I'd like to start off with something reasonably consistent so I can at least sight the thing in.

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[lastborn]

Here's mine. 1" @ 100 yds. measured outside to outside from a 1895 Marlin guide gun.
NOE 460350 13.4 bhn, sized .460, speed green.{ air cooled WW + pinch of tin }
26 gr. SR4759, starline brass, seated just touching lands. { 1500 to 1600--I think--don't have a crony }
Mild recoil and fun to shoot and will knock a deer DRT.