Lennyjoe
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Guys, gals, I've finally entered the 45-70 group with the recent purchase of a Marlin 1895 with 22" barrel. Found it used, in great shape with scope mounted and sling for $475 OTD. Its an MR coded rifle so that being said, I'm gonna gear up and start tinkering with some loads. I've been working up loads with my .50 Beowulf for deer hunting here in Ohio (the whole straight wall case dealeo) and have a nice 350gr XTP load with LilGun but always wanted to add the lever action 45-70 so here I am.
I've been reloading for years now and have quite a few powders that may work so I thought I'd tap into your past experiences and see if anyone had success with more than just Reloader 7 and H4198 out of the 22" rifle with 350gr Hornady bullets. The powders I have sitting in the safe are 8208 XBR, 4064 and H-335. Have some others but they don't show up in any manual's that I've been reading up on this weekend.
Thoughts on what to use, where to start? Thanks in advance.
I've been reloading for years now and have quite a few powders that may work so I thought I'd tap into your past experiences and see if anyone had success with more than just Reloader 7 and H4198 out of the 22" rifle with 350gr Hornady bullets. The powders I have sitting in the safe are 8208 XBR, 4064 and H-335. Have some others but they don't show up in any manual's that I've been reading up on this weekend.
Thoughts on what to use, where to start? Thanks in advance.