Originally Posted By: ROMAC
My 45-70 shoots well enough for me.


Mine, too. I had a #3 in .45-70, too, that I bought used. My son and I killed a ton of deer with that little thing. My usual load for it was a Rem. 300 gr. FNHP at about 2100 fps. The previous owner had put a whiteline Pachmayr on it to tame it a bit. When my son was 10 years old he would shoot it off the bench. I conveniently forgot to tell him about recoil, and he never noticed it.

After I bought my #1 .45-70 I sold the #3. I once loaded 500 gr. bullets to about 1850 fps and shot them offhand at the range. It bucked and roared but they were fun to shoot in that little gun.

SRH

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