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Hi guys! Sorry, Ive left this thread unattended for a bit. Im glad to see reports of people successfully taking game with the 45-70 and various 400 gr class bullets at speeds from mild to wild. Its...

Hi guys - I had a big weekend, I took my first ever cast boolit big game animal. I took a small doe at about 45 yards with my 1895 with irons and the rcbs 405 bullet at about 1750. Ive taken lots of...

Wow guys! Thanks for all of the advice. I have the rifle loaded with the RCBS 405 load, hopefully I can sit in the woods over the north Ga cold snap this weekend.

BLAHUT - Thanks! Black bears or...

Hi guys, Im hoping to work out a deer/hog/black bear all purpose 45-70 hunting load for my Marlin 1895.

The barrel slugs 0.458. I picked up a 46-405V mold from Tom at accurate, and 459 and 460...

I thought he was talking about the 158 RF, which is practically a WFN. Looking back, it seems like he may have meant the regular round nose, which I wouldnt want for anything but possibly small game.

Ive often thought the Lee 158 round nose flat point would be a good hunting bullet. It has a large meplat for the caliber. Ive never gotten it to produce loads that duplicate the accuracy Ive seen...

All,
Thanks for the posts and recomendations! I believe I will try out a few more options with the rcbs bullets (alloys, velocities, lubes, etc) just to verify that I really cant get them to shoot....

725,
Do you have any experience with this boolit with "marlin only style loads" at roughly 1800 fps or so? Do you use the plain base, or the gas checked version, or both? Any advice to help me make...

Thanks guys! Ill probably go with the NOE mold, but I may throw in a lee mold as well seeing as they are pretty afordable. Ga is having a May 16-31 "hog season" where centerfire rifles will be legal...

Bikerbeans,
Thanks! Ive never done any powder coating. I should have specified the alloy. The rcbs mould drops about .4575 with straight coww.

Johnch
Thanks for the reply! Ive had really great luck with NOE, and they are always the first place I look for aluminum gang molds. The bullet you are describing was actually my first pick out of...

Hi everyone,

Im looking for recommendations for a 45-70 hunting bullet. I believe what I want is a 400 (+/- 30 or so) grainer with a large blunt meplat. The bullet will be used for south eastern...

Thanks for all of the advice folks! my email notification wasnt working, so i didnt see all of this until just now. good luck!

Bluejay,

are those 158 and 180 grain cast, or jacketed? thanks!

MT Chambers,
ill try to find that article. thanks for the heads up!

Howdy folks,
Im going out to the bench next week to do some load work with the chrono, and my 686. Ill work with several powders, but the real wild card is 300MP. Ive only found two sources for...

Ill do some reading on Longshot and 300MP. Hick, thanks for the info from your speer manual. I left a voicemail with a technician at Lyman today about the primer question. this method has worked for...

Thanks for all of the replies. I picked up a copy of the speer book on amazon, and saw that the lee was on $16 bucks, so I threw it in the art as well. That should give me a relatively healthy...

you all arent going to believe this, but just today I found two pounds of 2400. That being said, I will likely still do a little bit of experimenting with blue dot, 4227, and AA#9. Thanks to everyone...

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I am searching for a suitable powder to replace H-110 as my primary magnum handgun powder for 357 Magnum. I am concerned about flame cutting, and potential for failure to light at low...

Howdy Folks,

I am looking for a good second manual to supplement the data from my Lyman 49th edition. My dad already has the Lyman cast boolit book, so I probably wont spring for a copy of it. Im...