ORIGINAL: ryker
i was wondering if anybody reloaded 45-70. i was wondering if there was any way you could reload smaller than 300 grain bullets, i'm shooting a marlin guide gun. right now i shooting the winchester 300 grain hollow point. for some reason i dont think i'm getting the expansion i would like. i already thought about the hornady leveralution but didnt wont to waste the money if i could just reload my own.
Aren't getting enough expansion on what size animal?
A friend of mine shot a brown bear with 400 Speers... Expanded waaaay to fast with poor penetration... He also shot a brown bear with the 350 Hornandys, not enough penetration even though they didn't expand too fast.
If your talking smaller animals, your either going to have to speed your 45/70 up quite a bit and live with the recoil and muzzle blast, or use soft bullets like "pistol" bullets, and not over speed them...
DM