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500 hundred grains? you must be shooting heavy cast in the Marlin 45/70 with the cut rifling...but god...500 grains? What rifle are you shooting?

The first time I took out the Springfield 45 ACP pistol I pointed it at a pile of trash in the Southern Calif foothills and the slug hit the pile and a trash can lid flew into air. It flew. I thought, - weight and modest velocity. All my 44, 45 Colt warm, and 41 mag would have zipped through the pile. Maybe several peices of junk displaced.

Then one day I took my new Marlin SS 45/70 with the micro groove into the Ca fields and shot at a log. The log jerked and moved around.

There is a place for big, large face, heavy and modest velocity. I had a lot of fun.


munk
 
I'm happy my third-grade daughter is able to go around without the half-cast she had on her arm anymore. Everything healed OK. (She broke her arm in school arm-wrestling with a girl two years older than she.)

James
 
munk said:
500 hundred grains? you must be shooting heavy cast in the Marlin 45/70 with the cut rifling...but god...500 grains? What rifle are you shooting?
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Yup. 1895 Guide Gun in stainless, 45-70. Evidently Marlin listened to the shooters and got rid of the microgroove in most rifles. No one seemed to like it but Marlin. This one has Ballard rifling, although I suspect that with a bullet with this much bearing surface it wouldn't matter.

For the amount of warnings that I've heard about how hard the 500 grainers kick, it really isn't bad. Granted my loads are fairly light -- I'm using 55 grains of WC860 (pull down) which burns slightly faster than AA8700, so the ignition is soft and sustained with a bit of unburned powder left over. The recoil is more of a firm push than anything. My chrono shows them departing at a hair under 1000 fps out of an 18" barrel. One box of factory 405's and 40 rounds of my 500 grainers didn't leave me with a flinch, pain, or bruises.

But man, they make some noise on those plates. :) If shooting at 50 yards and there are targets in line at 100 and 150, you can actually hear the bullet rip through each target and targetback and finally impact the backstop: whapwhapwhapTHUMP!

Now I gotta find me a new source of wheel weights. My supplier sold out to Interstate Batteries.
 
I'm happy it's nice out so I can take a walk.

And Dave,munk you ought to try a .338 mag sometimes...sending a 225gr. slug at close to 2900fps is bloody amazing!! :D
 
If you're driving them at 2900 fps, you may want to take another look at your load data. That sounds slightly on the warm side of hot.

I'm not a fan of the big magnums. They have their uses, but those uses aren't mine. A .45-70 is probably better for my needs.
 
Dave, sounds like a nice Levergun. :D Congrats. I've wanted a Full rifle in .45/70 for quite a while. Wish Winchester would bring back the 76 in .45/70. Though Cabela's in Lehi had some nice used Leverguns in .45/70 last time I was there.... Maybe I'll check them out.
 
I'm at Blade show and I just had dinner with a bunch of great guys!
Story and pics to follow when I can.



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