Originally Posted By: Stan
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


Dad's No. 3 was my introduction to the .45-70. I was about 12 at the time and he held nothing back and I was hooked. Brought it down to Arkansas one year for our annual shoot and it was deemed to be "that damned rude Yankee gun".

Pity on the No. 1's. They are a favorite. Between Dad and my brother and I there is a fair pile of them and we're always on the hunt for another.