Good points. The 45-70 within its range gives up nothing to any of the whizbang calibers. With heavy cast bullets it will take out anything on the planet.
Also have to agree with EKM about the ballistics within 250-300 yards. With the bullets we have available today there are a bunch of calibers that will do the job to those ranges which are the ranges that probably 90 percent of our big game is taken. Add in the good optics available and we are in the best of times for sure. I tried most of the Magnums and just plain come to the conclusion that at the ranges I shoot they just are not any more efficient than some of the old standards. I have a small herd of 45-70's.
