Ted I would be interested since I have one of those rifles.
Ted I would be interested since I have one of those rifles.
EDG
EDG ... I will start nother thread with details and photo's. ill name it "JAPCHESTER 1885 ACCURACY"
I had a Browning B78 45-70 that I got to shoot better by getting the cast bullets sized and lubed at .460 and adding two wraps of Teflon tape over the lubed bullet. The speed was about 1750 fps, I was clover leafing shots at 100 yds. The RCBS 405 grain mould was used and a gas check was used.
303 ... so you are saying that AFTER the .460 size ... you then wrap the Teflon tape over the lube grooves? so then what is the final diameter?
I read about some guy (Buffington?) shooting a 45-70 at a MILE! He was using ammo for his day. I am not certain what his alloy was, BUT his VELOCITY was no where near 2000FPS! I shoot a couple 45-70's and a 15" TC Contender handgun. Alloy and velocity will definetely change accuracy results. Your gun is certainly good enough for HUNTING, but may need some changes to become a viable BENCH REST gun.
indeed ... seems like we are all caught up in hunting loads for the venerable 45-70 trying to make it something it never was intended for. not saying that these heavier loads wont deliver and do so very well ... but we tend to forget that the lower velocity blackpowder loads did everything needed to do in the day. responsible for killin anything that walked or crawled for many a year. forgetting as well the very long range shooting these are capable of with just some care and trigger time to adjust for the added shooting yardage.
this round will take any game in America with 400ish grain boolits of fairly soft metal mix and mushrooming in such perfect shape that jacketed bullets just now are catching up with the perfect performance of these boolits ... and in the game fields they do just excellent on the game hunted.
it will also do all in the long range shoots with little to sufferable recoil of the slow 1000 to 1200 fps loads in 500+ grain boolits ... pushed along with the archaic powder that has been with us for just a bit longer then this grey/white looking powder we seem to like now-a-days.
good reminder "jhalcott" ...
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 |