I've breachseated many bullets in my 40/65 and it works just like a .32.

I also have a tapered Ron Long .45 mold made for fixed ammo or breachseating.   

It works just like it would in a smaller caliber. 

Theres always those who say it wont work.   

Is it practical? Not to me.

                                 Joe. 

Ed, 
it's not practical for me because there are no over forty cal bench match's in my area. If there were, and I wanted to win, I would certainly BS .45 bullets to do it.
If all one has is the venerable 45/70 by all means BS and do your best. Trouble is the recoil will get to you no matter how tough you think you are.  

Oh, I forgot the fun factor. It is very satisfying to win a match with something out of the norm. Especially when the doubters have you counted out. 

                                              Joe.

Redwing wrote on May 20^th, 2009 at 2:06am:


        HUH!   

Read my first post Ed.    



                         Joe.

Years ago I had a Shiloh 45-70.  The only matches for single shots in those days were scheutzen matches at a local club.  A friend gave me a copy of Ned Roberts' book and I had a mold made to cast 385 gr PP bulets.  Made a breech seater.  Used one case, filled to the top with FFg aand covered with a card wad.
The old Farmingdale shot close to MOA and one year a friend of mine used the rifle and load to win the Boyd Hilton trophy, shooting against
32-40's and such. 
I now have a Saeco mold for a 500 gr tapered bullet which breech seats just fine, but it shoots so well in fixed ammo that there's no point in breech seating.
Steve K

Well Ken, I guess we dont count on this thread. We have been told to buzz off.  And we didnt even get disrespected either!

I dont know who's more full of crap, me or you Ken. Lol 

Redwing, when I was young I shot silhouettes with an original hiwall in 45/70. The barrel had a slow twist so I breachseated my bullets so I could get more powder in the case so I could reach the rams. Oh but thats just an old story and it doesnt apply! I'm probly making it all up. Lol. 

       Good luck.

                                     Joe.   


 



                 

The smallest group I ever shot with a 45-70 was with a breech-seated bullet. Ohaus 45-405, not sized. Under .7", 5 shots, 100 yards.
Bench shooting a 45-70 hurts my head/makes my brain feel funny. I don't do it much. Offhand, yes, but then the breech seating accuracy difference, if there is one, matters not to me.
I have made some very silly-looking Sharps recoil reducers, too silly looking for me.
Good luck;
joe b.

Joe, you’re a Hoot !!!

I have always enjoyed your sense of humor and I hope you continue to be a resource on this site for many more years to come… 

Now quit trying to highjack my thread and embarrass yourself anymore… 

8>))

Okay, but I really am gonna start my own thread!   



                                              Joe. 

A friend of mine and I went to the range with the .458WM, 45-70-500 and the 375 ouch and ouch (300gr).  Max loads.
I shot about 50 he shot about 30.
Both of us were shooting from the left shoulder towards the end, as the right was too tender.
Fortunately I don't bruse - slight yellowing of skin.  He was black from elbow to chest.

So one would do much better with muzzle breaks, but I wonder about merely a recoil delaying device.

When I first started shooting ASSRA at Etna Green a few years back the ONLY rifle I had was a 45-70 Browning sporter---not one of the long heavy Creedmoor/BCPR versions--  it was the 1878 one with no tang and a light short tapered barrel.

I was breech seating the original Lyman Matthews 500 gr tapered bullet with some fairly stout loads of smokeless.  alloy was critical as was a good solid breech seating tool.  I also used cork wads seated the wad's thickness off the powder--mostly to keep from spilling it as I chambered the case.

Yeah it beat me around some, but once I got behind the bench rather than alongside the gun---and did the Dale-job on the trigger.  the thin sporter stock was a PITA off the bags.  but in spite of it all I managed a few low 240-s in the Schoyen----which I've had a hard time beating since with nominally more appropriate equipment.   Maybe I ought to did it out of storeage.

One thing for sure---it was a LOT less wind sensitive --in fact when I was shooting it I had no flags, probes or any other such doo-dads.

I see no reason it shouldn't work for you---given it is a bigger horse, kicks harder and is more expensive to feed.   It's just a matter of finding the right balance of the bits'n pieces.

Good luck