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Buffhunter, actually the difference is your bullets onviously didnt work well and his did

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Originally posted by Atkinson:

I feel the same for the 45-70, its a short range caliber, and dependent on proper bullets and proper placement..



Any caliber works if used properly..but there is no room for mistakes with a light for animal caliber within reason.

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Originally posted by tradmark:
Buffhunter, actually the difference is your bullets onviously didnt work well and his did. Use the right bullets for the job and the 45/70 will do everything thats asked of it. Ive killed waterbuff, 2 capebuff, eland and over 20 other african animals. So far 24 large bovines over 1000lbs with expandables like the swift aframe and barnes xbp. They were from a revolver and none except the 460 smith even approach 45/70 loads. Go ahead and stick to the little flatpoint cast bullets but you will continue to lose game at times. Just get some barnes or swift aframes and go kill anything i listed above definitively, let alone a little black bear. Ive already killed several black bear with revolvers and had none run whatsoever. 45/70 is just more of a good thing. It’s in the bullet, period. Best example of this is my buddies bison he shot with a 50bmg bullet. Never opened and the herd closed in around the wounded animal and it lived for over 15 minutes. Its not the ME its the bullet doing damage.