45-70 plinker loads

[TomADC]

These were 480.1 grs on my scale powered by 10.5 grs of Unique going to try htem out Monday in my Sharps, but of course I have 40 rounds of BP to run thru it also.

[spitpatch]

Is that a published load from a good source? Be carefull!! A guy I have shot with blew the action up on a sharps playing around with light loads and pistol powder. It was one of the expensive ones from Big Timber, Mont. I know this 1st hand. Forget exactly what the load was.
NRA life
RET US Army

[PetahW]

When I had a .45-70, I used a commercial (Speer) .457" lead RB over an Ox-Yoke lubed wad & 35gr Goex FFFg as a plinking load w/o issue (except for cleaning).

There was an entire article, covering these gallery loads, in an issue of Guns Of The Old West a few years ago.

I notched the rims of the brass used for the BP gallery loads, so they wouldn't be used for anything else, though.

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[TomADC]

I have is old 1973 Lyman Cast Bullet book this page is from it:

http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL174/1021972/18168454/384221935.jpg

[Ralph Allen]

Do a search and try Trail Boss powder. These published Trail Boss loads are a real pleasure to shoot!
Ralph

[darkgael]

+1 about Trail Boss. There are quite a few threads on different fora about how well it works.
Fill the case with TB to the base of where the bullet will be seated. Dump that and weigh it. Take 70% of that; it is the start load.
I have read of it's use in cartridges from .38 Spl. all the way through 8mm Mauser to .416 Rigby. Look in this forum - in the Handloading and Reloading section for a report about the use of TB in the .416 and the .375 H&H.
All positive reports. The stuff is so fluffy that you cannot put enough in a given case to surpass SAAMI max. pressures.
4.2 grains fills a .38 Spl. case to the bullet.(158 gr. LSWC, 804 fps, 13700psi)
Pete

[B.L.E.]

I use 15 grains of Trail Boss behind 300 grain cast bullets for my plinker loads. Recoil? About like a .410 shotgun.
If you want low recoil, a lighter bullet goes a lot farther in reducing recoil than reducing the velocity of a heavy bullet does.

[TomADC]

This was 11 grs of Unique with a 405 Magma bullet there are 4 rounds in the 10 ring, 1 in the 9 and one flyer I called after I started to turn blue from letting too much air out and waiting to long to pull the trigger. Wind was bad blowing left to right at 40 mph and gusting even worse. Iron sight no tang yet.

http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL174/1021972/18168454/384269415.jpg

[B.L.E.]

15.7 grains of Trail Boss and 300 grain Meister cast bullets shot at 100 yards with a tang peep sight, Remington RB1 sporter rifle. This chronographed at around 1300 fps.

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