Do your bullets have a virus?  They look pretty green.  How did it shoot?  It sure looks nice.  Tom

.45-70 shot shells?  Nah!

Bill Lawrence

All right, all right , quit makin' fun of my zombie killer bullitts. 

I bought a bunch of different bullets from a couple of local casters one of whom is very into the 'coating' thing'. Pretty much used up all I had and will be casting my own going forward.

As for the gun I spent a lot of time fiddling with the sights, front and rear, so only got out to 50 yards - 1" group 3 rounds. Going back next week to get it out to 100 which is the max. for that particular location. But, I joined another club not to far away that has a long range bay set up for 200, 400, 600 , 800 and 1000 yards.

One thing I did was swap out the post in the front globe sight for a small aperture - the post had a little ball at the top which hid a lot of the target.

Retreever

Range Day - Take 2, was able to get out to 100 yards - pleased with my results so far but need to focus on my trigger pull , really have think about just 'squeeze' and let it be a surprise/ 

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Retreever

oneatatime wrote on Oct 4^th, 2020 at 3:46pm:


So far I have shot (4) different loads 55g and 70g of blackpowder as well as 43g and 55g of Triple 7 all under 405g bullets some of which were purchased (flat base) and some I cast (hollow base). I plan on casting 500g bullets (flat base) this week and load those over 70g blackpowder .

Thanks for the tip on bag position,  will pay closer attention in the future. Only other powder I tried was 19g of Trail Boss under a 350g bullet, only because I had them on hand.

Retreever

Beautiful rifle!

I've been meaning to try some BP cartridges in my Browning 1885 45-70.   But first I have to get some issues worked out with my cast bullets.   First time at the range with cast bullets and I couldn't even get on the paper for a while.   
When I finally did, here is what happened:
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I had to get my gunsmith to open up my mold because it was dropping way too small.  And my bullet sizer is too small too.

But in the meantime, I've been having very good success with a mild load using 300 grain HPs and 51.5 grains of IMR 3031.   It's actually a trapdoor load, but SHHH! don't tell the deer that, they think it's a super duper hot load!  It's only tooling along at around 1650 fps but hits like the Hammer of Thor.