ORIGINAL: bigcountry
I was shooting my 45-70 this weekend, and was reading teh loads from Sierra, hodgdon and others, and was shocked to find out they recommend 60+ gr for 300gr bullet. I can barely fit 58gr in there before I am crunching kernals, and can't seat further than 2.54" with sierra HP.
I called sierra, and of course they said they had no issues getting 61gr in thier case and loading the bullet to 2.53".
Anybody else????
In my Ruger No.1, I developed a load using the 400-grain Barnes Original Semispitzer (B.C. .389)and IMR 3031. The most powerful, yet acceptably accurate load I came up with was exactly that-60 grains! Yes, the powder is compressed-so what?
MV of this load was 2270 FPS, believe it or don't believe it!! Recoil, 58 foot-pounds. I had to loop my left forefinger over the barrel when firing this load from sandbags to keep the rifle from jumping off the bag! Needless to say, I did NOT adopt this particular load for all-round use. But I would not hesitate to use it on a BIG bear! I put a Limbsaver pad on this gun to help take some of the bite out of the recoil. Naturally, this load would NOT be recommended for the Marlins!!