Question about 45-70

[ipscgraz]

With a very tall rear sight, and keeping the axis of the bore plumb.
Artillery folk do it all the time.

Yeah...with a correction of "Add 40, left 30" from a spotter with a radio.

Not exactly the same thing as hitting your target on the first shot by yourself.

 

[10x]

Yeah...with a correction of "Add 40, left 30" from a spotter with a radio.

Not exactly the same thing as hitting your target on the first shot by yourself.

Ever been to a black powder silhouette shoot? Shooters get "sighting shots" that are called by spotters. When a shooter is satisfied he (or she) starts the run on the chickens, turkeys, pigs, or rams. Sighting shots are needed because atmospheric conditions vary from day to day and those have to be compensated for. A big bore B.P. gun sighted in and shooting perfectly one day may be a few inches or feet off the next because of atmospheric variables.

 

[ipscgraz]

Ever been to a black powder silhouette shoot?

Not requiring a holdover of 240 Feet.

 

[10x]

Not requiring a holdover of 240 Feet.

At 500 meter sight zero the highest point of the bullets flight is some 85" over the line of sight.
At 100 metre zero the drop at 500 meters is over 250" inches.
so you wouldn't be holding over 240 feet....

 

[senior]

i have shot 2000 '/sec 400 gr. bullets in my ruger no.1 ....

it is not fun.

Try 500gn at 1950 out of a #3 Ruger, it'll make that load seem like a pussy

 

[ipscgraz]

so you wouldn't be holding over 240 feet....

And what was my original comment?

 

[10x]

And what was my original comment?

If you are shooting at 1600 yards like the charts, a 240 foot hold over is required. 500 yards is a different story.

 

[jumper]

Range of 45-70

200 yds in hunting, max. My 1898 Springfield manual quotes 3300 yards extreme range for the 500 gr. service load. 2" penetration in sand at that distance.

 

[ipscgraz]

My ex-wife liked to have the last word, also.

 

[10x]

My ex-wife liked to have the last word, also.

The difference is your ex wife was always wrong....

 

[ENIGMATIC1]

The difference is your ex wife was always wrong....

I don't know the story, or if there even is one, but I can't stop chuckling at that comment.

 

[ipscgraz]

The difference is your ex wife was always wrong....

And thank you for making my point. Nighty-night.

 

[10x]

And thank you for making my point. Nighty-night.

My pleasure...

 

[Pancake81]

i have a CB marlin in 45/70 with a 26 in barrel. I keep it sighted in at 100 and it drops arounf 2.5 in at 200 for me. MY numbers arnt matching up with the others, but it consitantly shoots that for me.

 

[10x]

i have a CB marlin in 45/70 with a 26 in barrel. I keep it sighted in at 100 and it drops arounf 2.5 in at 200 for me. MY numbers arnt matching up with the others, but it consitantly shoots that for me.

Wow! That is much flatter than my 35 Remington that is zeroed at 150 yards and drops 5 inches by 200 yards. (MV of 2250 fps and 200 grain bullet.)

 

[bunny]

i have a CB marlin in 45/70 with a 26 in barrel. I keep it sighted in at 100 and it drops arounf 2.5 in at 200 for me. MY numbers arnt matching up with the others, but it consitantly shoots that for me.

What load do you use in your C.B. Marlin I own and load for five 45-70 rifles and iam picking up my new CB. tomorrow.