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Pigman if you want penetration I suggest you try the woodleigh 405 grain fn which they have designed especially for the 45/70. They hang together real well and retain heaps of weight. They mushroom perfectly as well, I recovered one from a redgum tree that penetrated around 10 inches and still weighed 385 grains. The sambar shooters here in Australia are having good success with them. I reckon that projectile loaded to 1850 fps would pretty much put anything belly up. I load 46 grains of AR2207 for around 1850 fps aprox. AR powders are equivalent to Hodgens I beleive. I have shot pigs but I do not use the 405 gr woodleighs I use the 300 gr sierra HP's there dynamite, I get enough penetration and I get explosive expansion. Hit with the woodleighs they penetrate right through end to end but I reckon they are suited to bigger stuff. The fastest opening 400 grainer I have used to date is the speer FN. Regards PC. ------------------ | |||
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I have heard that there is a new 350 grs JFn especially for the .45-70 in stronger chamberings from Hornady, suited to LA�s. Any experiences? Has somebody loading data for a Browning 86 / new Winchester 86 ( shorter throat than Marlins )? Good shooting! Hermann ------------------ | |||
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The 400 grain FN speer is my favorite 45-70 bullet. It opens up to silver dollar size and blows bigger holes than a 7mm mag. I don't get good accuracy with the light bullets. | |||
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| <Paul Dustin> |
Pigman I would go with the 300gr grain Partition. I use them this year in my boys Remington 1100 20ga. This is the new 260gr Par. slug from Winchester. I shot 2 deer openen day at a 125yds the exit hole was about 21/2" the deers only ran about 20yds | ||
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500 grains funny you say that my marlin likes the heavier bullets better as well, I wonder why???. Any ideas??? ------------------ | |||
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quote: The 350gr JFNs are of Interlock design. Hornady uses them in their 450 Marlin loads. I've loaded some "Level II (new Marlin 1895/Winchester 86)" 45-70 rounds with them, but I haven't evaluated them yet. As far as penetration goes, these JFNs should be ideal for "piggin'". I've just received some 460gr WFNGC hard-cast from Cast Performance. These should penetrate from here to eternity if properly motivated! ------------------ "Did you use excessive force?---I HIT IT WITH EVERYTHING I HAD! | |||
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Cast Performance also has new 405 gr and 420 gr LFNGCs not listed on their website. The 420 grainer looks real promising as a general do-it-all "thumper" bullet.