45 70 muzzleloader

[two dogs]

might be a pipe dream but how hard would it be to take a tc contender 45-70 barrel make a breech plug and turn into an inline?

[John Taylor]

It can be done. Might need a long breach plug to fill most of the chamber. Bullet diameter should be .449" . If you were planning on making the barrel shorter you could use a chunk of barrel for a bullet sizer. It would need to be shrunk down a bit but you would have a mechanical fit to the rifling. extend the ejector for the 209 primers but don't look at the primer when you open the action, hurts the eye when it hits.

[two dogs]

what if you made the breech plug to use shortended cases for the primer holder like they do with 25 acp cases?

[Good Cheer]

Have you tried muzzleloading it with a primed case? Been threatening to do that with a break over H&R 45LC and just haven't got around to it.

[pietro]

You don't need to make the breechplug, it can be storebought - and it doesn't need to fill the .45-70 chamber.

Just for chuckles one year, I turned a .45-70 Ruger #1-S into a .45 muzzleloader via drilling/tapping the rear half of the .45-70 chamber for a Remington 700ML breechplug I ordered from the Remmy Parts dept.

I made the threads deep enough so that I could seat the Remmy breechplug (and adjust the depth) deep enough so that the Ruger #1's firing pin would ignite large rifle primers held in the lower half of a primer conversion kit for caplocks that I screwed into the Remmy breechblock ILO the nipple.

The normal 70-90 gr Pryo or Holy Black charges fill what remains of the old .45-70 chamber, allowing seating the lubed boolit just ahead of the old throat area.

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