Originally Posted by
fritz1
I have been wandering how those Hornady Leverolution 44's would shoot. When I bought my latest 45-70 Marlin Guide gun, I bought a box just to try them, they shot great, especially for factory loads. I guess I will have to buy a box of 44's and try them. I wasnt sure wether the overall length would be to long to work in a revolver.
We've had a little time to play with the Leverevolution .45-70 325grn FTX's, and I just thought I'd mention the results. These were for my wife's gun, a Marlin 1895 Guide Gun. Very manageable recoil, even for her 5'3" 125lb frame. VERY accurate, I've only shot 2 groups with these, while my wife has shot several. A "bad day" at 100yrds is 3/4" groups, a good day puts 3 shots under a quarter (of .458" bullets mind you). We're pushing 1792fps average with an ES of 21.
This evening, I dumped a 192lb dressed weight 11pter at 250yrds. 12MOA drop (30") but the bullet smashed through both lungs and heart, and I recovered the slug, lodged beneath the hide on the far side, very well mushroomed. The buck ran about 10yrds, jumped a fence, and hit the ground dead. Pretty hard to complain about that.