All you gorrilla sized guys say that, but the reat of use have a different view. But it is damn fun to shoot isn't it?LOL you have a point. Maybe I should just get one of those Ruger .45/70 single shots and keep max pressure loads for it, plus the recoil is very managable
I am tempted to buy one myself. They are a hoot! I want a marlin guide gun first, so I can have a quick follow up shot... Or if I could find one, a Siamese Mauser rechambered for .45/70sv_libertarian wrote:All you gorrilla sized guys say that, but the reat of use have a different view. But it is damn fun to shoot isn't it?LOL you have a point. Maybe I should just get one of those Ruger .45/70 single shots and keep max pressure loads for it, plus the recoil is very managable
Hunt with a 20mm? I suppose you could, if all you wanted to make was sausage and burgers...
Bear 45/70 wrote:Hunt with a 20mm? I suppose you could, if all you wanted to make was sausage and burgers...
If my 45/70 Government 405 grain hand loads won't do the job I need to be somewhere else and I don't shoot down planes or at tanks.Bear 45/70 wrote:Hunt with a 20mm? I suppose you could, if all you wanted to make was sausage and burgers...
Not even (and I know you know better smiley face boy), I would like to add one to the gun room, however I do know for a fact that the 45/70 is enough gun (Marlin leverguns and above pressures)for any animal on earth. The big six has been taken in Africa with a Marlin Guide gun with Randy Garrett's (located in Chehalis, WA)specialty loads, 420 lead hard cast bullets in the 1600 to 1800 fps range. Besides that a terrorist is a person with no moral values and there is no such thing as a terrorist weapon. If there were, box cutters would be class three weapons.Why Bear, are you perpetuatingt the myth that a .50bmg is a terrorist's weapon?
What????? You've never seen a MA Duce pistol? Just what have you done with your life? Wasted it on boats and working?
Sunshine getting to you a bit much there Bear?What????? You've never seen a MA Duce pistol? Just what have you done with your life? Wasted it on boats and working?
I'll have you know I have seen a .50bmg pistol. Right after Just_A_Car posted the link.
...or anything dumb enough to try and hunt you.
All I use is a 405 LFN over 40 grains of H-4198 for 1600 fps out of the Marlin 1895SS or the Ruger #1 and the only reason it's that fast is it is that is here it ismost accurate. Never had anything but pass thrus and I know it will stop anythingI run into in the woods. I used up to 560 grain bullets but decided I just didn't need that much and the 405s are cheap compared to the bigger bullets. I do use 500 grain bullets in my oringinal 1873 Springfield "Trapdoor" over 70grs FFg for the old time look but prefer the 405s over 55 gns of FFg there to.Trigger Dr wrote:...or anything dumb enough to try and hunt you.
...Cougar, Black Bear, Grizzley, Sasquatch, etc...
