Posted on 07/01/2022 5:46:35 PM PDT by circlecity
I need advice on a potential trade
I run into this nonsense when talking to African hunters too. I guess everyone forgets that one time a single generation of American hunters damned-near exterminated the North American bison with 45-70. We went from horizon-to-horizon oceans of moving flesh and fur to "ya don't see em no more" in less that twenty years.
It was just reported that the FBI has monitored over 2,000,000 American citizens without cause or warrants. I call them SuperSnoops. Go to the best encrypted sites you can find or create your own encryption. There's always the Dark Web. You guys are putting a target on your back if the SHTF. Be cool.
Heck, I thought you were talking about your run-of-the-mill standard reticle 4x hunting scope. Even I can shoot a 4 MOA target at 500 yards with a .22 with less scope than what your talking about above. I used to do it regularly.
Where are you hunting that the squirrels are that big? LOL!
A glance at the elevated iron sights on the Springfield “Trapdoor” should point the way.
Good advice
I have an AR-.45-70 to trade. Interested?
Yeah. With vernier tang sights, 600 yards is doable. And if you’re shooting into massive herds, with no regard for what you hit, or where, and you have hundreds of acres of grass to locate your kill in, or don’t care how many wounded animals escape, it’s great bison round. Around here, a marginal hit on an elk in steep terrain, possibly raining, means you’ve likely wasted your hunt.
Much of Africa mandated solid copper bullets because they got tired of wasted game, and scraping Fudds out of buffalo hooves when their “buffalo guns” only succeeded in pissing off dangerous game.
1884 model. They’re worth some more than the 1873 model.
They make revolvers in 45-70 https://www.classicfirearms.com/hand-guns/revolvers/45_70_government/
Someone used to make a Derringer in .45-70. I heard about a guy that got a spiral fracture of the ulna from one.
Never trade, never sell!!! Just buy the new one. You will feel much better about yourself in the future.
They made fun plinking targets when the hunting was slow. A rather immature practice I came to realize.
Heck, we are talking about old cowboy guns here.
He’s Gone,,,
I mean really!
Keep what you have, buy what you want.
I am not worried bout reloads. This guy reloads ammo sweet. His reloads are probably better than factory.
I'm pretty untrusting about that.
I picked up a .44 Magnum revolver last year, and half a thousand of the previous owner's handloads. Not knowing him technique, I took to diasssembling. Good thing I did, some of them were, ohh, let's see. "Inconsistently" loaded. So, now I've got a pile of primed brass, to load up my way. (.44 Special and light magnum is appropriate for this gun).
Anyway, Between the two you're looking at, I think the .357 lever gun/revolver combo is going to be a more broadly useful thing.
Your call, anyway.
I’ve had trouble with factory loads at times. Had a PMC brand 45 ACP hardball load fire with primer power only so the round lodged halfway down the barrel. In the old days I never seem to have 22 rimfire duds or at least not more than one in one thousand. These last few years I’ve had several dud rounds per thousand and all had hard firing pin strike marks on the rim. Sometimes rotating the round would get it to fire with the second or third attempt.
Of course, my handloads are of the highest quality.
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