i never wanted to start a war of words of whether it is or should not be used in primitive weapon season. After that said can some of you guys that have used the 45-70 with modern shells tell if they are better than a inline front loader as far as accuracy ,distance or power using the same 300 gr.bullet. I don'thave a problemabout the chore of cleaning frontloaders thats just part of using a frontloader. Plus a few days after the primitive season starts i get 5 to 20 guns aweek to clean from the lazy hunters at 10 dollars each.