Should've said "favorite."
The 348 Winchester Improved would be hard to beat for me.
What are some of the fav's around here?

Bwana-be
For rifles I've been working with the 45-70 for a lot of years and I've just recently been explring the 45 Colt in the Rossi 92.
The Rossi with a 300 grain Saeco does a fair imitation of the 45-70 factory stuff.
Jim

Any cartridge that maxes out at 2400 or less fps using a max charge of medium to slow speed powder for the caliber. ... felix

250 Sav gets my vote. Easy to load, inexpensive to shoot,and ohh so easy on the shoulder in shirt sleeve weather!--Shuz

Very difficult NOT to say "45-70" reflexively in answer to this question. The more I shoot this caliber with poured boolits, the more I like it. 12 years, and nothing but great results so far.

Just about any of the straightwall revolver "Special" or "Magnum" calibers do well with cast boolits. It's hard to choose between 32 SW Long/H&R Magnum, 38 or 44 Special, or 357/41/44 Mags.

I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but as a 35 fan, the 358 win sounds about ideal. The 357 maxium is a great round in it's own right, and for some reason I find long straightwall cases apealing.

Thuty-thuty.

My favorite cast bullet cartridge is the 30-40 Krag. It headspaces on the rim doing away with possible shoulder set-back concerns. It also has a very long neck to contain the grease grooves. The powder capacity that allows cast bullets to be fired to full potential and with heavy 30s, full factory specs can be had with cast bullets. A 220 grains cast bullets at 2,200 fps is nothing to be sneezed at. With todays technology and materials, there is no need for any more powder capacity than the 30-40 has, at least in a 30 cal cartridge.

The only downside are the rifles chambered for this round. All that I know off have the military chamber with the looooong throat. This limits bullet choice.

My ultimate rifle is a Ruger 1 rebarreled with a good Hart barrel and chambered for the 30-40 round, but with a standard .308/30-06 throat. I might even go with a 1-12 twist and limit bullets to under 200 grains.

Pissola - .45 ACP or AR

Rifle - 25-20, .32 Win Spl, 35 Rem

Don't forget 12 guage slugs and buck (home cast, but of course!). sundog

.44 special .44 mag, ditto for the .38s .45ACP, 9MM.....could you imagine NOT casting for pitol shooting? It'd be like leaving once-fired brass for someone else to pick up.....I couldn't do it...I'd pull my hair out and then go catatonic.....

Regards.....

Hard to pick a farorite because I like quite a few of them. I will agree with Chargar about the 30-40 Krag. It is definately one of my favorites and they seem to shoot cast boolits very well. All the pistol rounds are definately great cast shooters, I too couldn't imagine not shooting cast from them. The 45-70 is another of my favorites.

I load and shoot a lot of 30-30 out of about 6 differant rifles and they all like a good 170gr. cast slug at full factory equivilent loads.
This has to be one of the most under-rated cartridges ever made. It'll do anything you need done! I even make regular hits on a 300yrd gong with mine. Not that you should ever hunt that far with it but it sure is fun and cheap. Everybody should own at least 1 30-30! It's just plain American! I've just about hung up my higher power rifles for hunting, but then I like more of a challenge than a scope sighted, hi-power rifle gives me anymore. I use a handgun when I can, with a good cast bullet!

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Shooter973, won't argue over the 30-30, BUT for cast boolits the .32 Win Spl is 'mo betta'. The reason is that in most cases twist is 16 and you can really hammer a 170 grain boolit without stripping it. The reason I won't argue over the 30-30 (and I have one and shoot ONLY cast in it) is that most stock 30-30 is 10 twist. I think I might include .38/.357 Mag and .44 Spl/.44 Mag on my pissola list, too. Hard too argue success, eh? sundog

45/70 is very fine as commercial cartridge but I prefer 40/65 with 400 gr

as wildcat the 35/30.30 WIN ( not the 35 WCF ) is very fine with cast bullet , long neck , small powder capacity ( cast bullet doesn t need ultra mag case ) low cost ...

good shooting

DAN TEC

For me it's hard to beat 8mm mauser, only drawback is those itty bitty sights. Also having a ball with my 30-30. Thanx to you guys my wife now likes the 30-30 when I load up those lee 113 grainers...Gary D aka Fuzzy Sights

Shooter, I'm still in the learning stage with my win 94 with lyman 311041 and am currently using 4198 in it but would like to know what other bullets/powders your're using. Always open to new suggestions. Thanx

I forgot pistol rounds. I'm a huge fan of Rugers 480. Part of it was the challenge, when I got mine there was very little loading data. I've tried 310, 320, 335, 350, 390, 400 (2), 435 and 460 gr cast through it, and all shot into 5 shot 1" groups at 50 yds once I found a load the bullets liked.

I've also tried 50 cal round balls sized down, and Lee 50 cal REAL bullets sized down. Neither of the sized 50's have been as accurate as I've wanted, but the round balls have no recoil with mild loads.

I've basically settled on a 400 gr @ 1200 fps as a hunting load, but still want to get a Keith style SWC made of ~270 gr for plinking and small game. The 310 works well for that, but I believe the Keith will be more accurate at reduced velocities.

.44 Mag /Spec and 45/70 gets my vote.

45/70, 45Colt and just for grins, 43 Mauser. S/F...Ken M

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