45-70 for Long range

I shoot NRA long range matches with .45 cal cartridges, but I use a .45-90 rather than a .45-70.

I certainly wouldn't pick a levergun with a short, slow twist, barrel and blunt bullets meant for leverguns though :).

Chris.
 
Years ago, I used to shoot reactive steel rams out at 500 yards (older range) with my Shilo Sharps #3 Sporting rifle in .45-70. Longer ranges in this area are hard to find. Never a problem taking them down, if I did my part.
 
This has always interested me.

I'm wondering if anyone here has ever see a western movie where at the very end the villain rides his horse about 1000 yards away and stops atop a hill on the horizon and looks back. It seems as though he has gotten away. The good guy dials up his ladder sight and fires, knocking the bad guy off his horse and that's how the movie ends. I wish I could find that scene again.
 
Garand said:
Years ago, I used to shoot reactive steel rams out at 500 yards (older range) with my Shilo Sharps #3 Sporting rifle in .45-70. Longer ranges in this area are hard to find. Never a problem taking them down, if I did my part.
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Yeah, finding ranges in Canada is a problem. At least here in the west. All of my long range shooting competition has been done in the states. Other than Ottawa I'm not sure where you can find a 1000 yard range with pits. We can shoot steel gongs to 800m in Heffley Creek, but it's just not the same as shooting targets on a range with a full set of wind flags.

Chris.
 
gunlaker said:
Yeah, finding ranges in Canada is a problem. At least here in the west. All of my long range shooting competition has been done in the states. Other than Ottawa I'm not sure where you can find a 1000 yard range with pits. We can shoot steel gongs to 800m in Heffley Creek, but it's just not the same as shooting targets on a range with a full set of wind flags.

Chris.
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Lots of long ranges in Alberta and Saskatchewan...
 
You've likely heard of this before but if not read up on the gunfight at ADOBE WALLS. A VERY LONG SHOT was made by BILLY DIXON using a Black Powder cast bullet rifle. Interesting history of a very long shot.
 
propliner said:
This has always interested me.

I'm wondering if anyone here has ever see a western movie where at the very end the villain rides his horse about 1000 yards away and stops atop a hill on the horizon and looks back. It seems as though he has gotten away. The good guy dials up his ladder sight and fires, knocking the bad guy off his horse and that's how the movie ends. I wish I could find that scene again.
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Did you ever find the scene in question? Sounds very similar to the ending of one of the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns.

Here's what wiki says

The Dollars Trilogy (Italian: Trilogia del dollaro), also known as the Man with No Name Trilogy (Italian: Trilogia dell'Uomo senza nome), is an Italian film series consisting of three spaghetti Western films directed by Sergio Leone. The films are titled A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). Their English versions were distributed by United Artists, while the Italian ones were distributed by Unidis and PEA.
 
Well I was just digging around the vault and pulled out a Mk III Martini with a +30" heavy barrel chambered in 45/70. Barrel is like a truck axle.

I guess now I will need to do something with it. I know that the Martini action limits the length of what cartridges you can use and the longer the case the more tapered it needs to be to fit, so I don't think rechambering to 45/90 or a longer case is possible.
 
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