40-70 is a good round. Have one in a High wall. I shoot 28 gr IMR 4198 with a RCBS 400 gr bullet in my local "buffalo" match out to 350 yards with normally good results.

Hiwall55 wrote on Jan 15^th, 2020 at 7:13pm:



That's real close to what I use in my 40-65 with 5744 and it does very well out to 600.  Thanks Hiwall55   
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I was hoping by now to have my new MVA sight with Hadley eyepiece but it is still several weeks away so I decided to go shoot up my blackpowder hunting loads so I can start serious load development with 50 empty cases.  I shot this 10 shot group at 50 yards with an apperature front and a Marble's folding tang sight using a 400 grain bullet and a duplex load of Re-7 and Swiss 1.5 powder.  Now I am wondering what I might gain going with smokeless and continue using black!  There were some pretty good winds blowing left to right and maybe the group indicates that as I did not shoot in conditions, just firing as I got set.  Back in the day when I shot 6PPC out of a dedicated bench rest rifle that was the kind of group you would get when not using flags.  Hopefully I can move out to 100 yards when I get a better rear sight to help my old eyes.  Tom

Tom, 
I think you're having too much fun.  I just got my 8 pounder of Buffalo Rifle but the 40-70 is nowhere near ready to shoot.  I'm going to try it in a 40-65 maybe even the 40-60 BN.
Greg