Hunting black bear with a 45/70.

[teddy12b]

I'm hoping that my rifle and shoulder like this next batch of ammo.  If it's accurate I'll be hunting with it this year, and I assume it will be.  I have 100 pieces of new remington brass ready to go, but I do need to order more of the bullets soon.

Since I last wrote this I had taken the rifle to the range a couple more times and never found a load it would shoot accurately.  I got fed up with the rifle and sold it figuring that somehow I had gotten a lemon.

Oddly enough I recently came across a great deal on a used 1895G and bought it.  I still don't have it in my hands yet, but I'm really hoping to have much better luck with it than I did with the 22" barreled 1895 I sold.  Something about a 45/70, I just had to have one.

[Redhawk1]

I have owned 4 of the 45-70 Marlins, and all of them shot great. I sold my last 45-70 GG to a buddy of mine, and it is a tack driver, all I have left is my 22 inch Marlin 45-70. I did how ever pick up another 444 Marlin 18 inch GG.

[fknipfer]

Barnes Bullets says its .458 for 45-70, 400gr Semi-Spitzer has a bc of .389 and MV of 2185fps of AA1680 and astericks that is the most accurate powder for that load.  It creates 4240lbs of Muzzle energy and that should be sufficient to take a black bear.  Oh I forgot you can only shoot that out of Ruger NO.1 or No.3.  I think that would just about take everything.

fkniper