Today being Presidents Day, I took the day off to celebrate.
I cleaned and trimmed all the 45-70 brass that I had on hand to load some 300gr pills for the 1895 Marlin.
When I pulled the load data from Hodgdon's site they had 3 categories for the 45-70:
Trapdoor, Lever Action and Modern rifle.
I selected a starting load from the Lever Action section and worked up to some teeth shattering loads that almost got some blood from my eyebrow.
I was sitting here tonight looking at the load data again and selected the load data for Modern Rifles, just being curious as to how much higher the loads were over the lever action loads.
To my surprise the max data for the Modern Rifle loads for a 300gr bullet was lower (53gr of IMR4198) than the listed start data (53.7gr IMR4198)for the lever action data.
The COL is longer for the Modern rifle loads but something just doesn't seem to make sense.
Maybe I just assumed the load data for the modern rifles would have a higher charge/velocity listed.