Hi Everybody, I've got a new young man that I'm helping getting started casting and reloading.
He bought a Henry All Weather 45-70 lever action. It's at the gunsmith's getting slicked up, but hopefully will have it back by this weekend.
We cast up a small pile of the Lee 457-340s out of range scrap and have them lubed with 2500+ and sized to .459".
I'm wondering what the max cartridge length is for the Henry?
Also does anyone load the Lee 340, and does it shoot okay in the Henry?
I'm thinking about starting with around 26-28gns of SR4759. Hoping to get around 1400fps-ish. Just enough to let him get started without developing a flinch right off the bat
TIA for any input.