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Offline alan in ga

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hunting with your 45/70 pistol?
« on: March 17, 2011, 04:18:17 AM »
Anyone been hunting a LOT with their 45/70 pistol? I've taken a few deer with 45/70 rifles but none with a pistol.
I have a 12 1/2" stainless barrel and enjoy toying with it and light bullets.
I just wondered who's smoked a few deer and or elk [coyotes?] with their 45/70 and would share the experiences.
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Re: hunting with your 45/70 pistol?
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2011, 05:34:51 AM »
In November I shot a doe with a super 14 contender 45 70 at 70 yards.  Hit her square in the chest the bullet starred on the hind leg and the rest of the bullet passed straight through the back leg DRT.  Shot another doe the year before at 100 yards broadside and had a complete pass through.  She ran about 70 yards and piled up.  Both were shot with factory Federal ammo with 300 grain speer hot core sp bullets.  Great caliber!

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Re: hunting with your 45/70 pistol?
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2011, 07:15:06 AM »
got my contender with 12" 45-70 at the end of last season though i tried the deer did not co-operate.  So far it has been fun to handload for and a real blast at the range.
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Re: hunting with your 45/70 pistol?
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2011, 11:39:37 AM »
I don't have a contender in 45-70 but will add from what I have found from shooting my Sharps rifle in 45-70. Even with cast bullets Lyman #457193 405 gr FN at 1400 fps or the RCBS45-500BPS 500 gr at 1100 fps I have never recovered a bullet no matter where it went into a deer. It lets the air out of them pretty quick and as the old buff hunter said. "You can eat right up to the bullet hole".  I have a friend that used a 16" Contender in 45-70 on deer with the 300 gr Sierra HP and the suggested hunting load in the #5 Sierra manual of RE-7 46.6 grs for 1700 fps. It was a hand full but it really did a number on the one deer I saw that he took at about 50 yards. I use a 14" 30-30AI Contender with 125 Noselr BT at 2670 fps. It kills them just as dead, mostly in their tracks, and does not have near the bone jarring recoil.
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Re: hunting with your 45/70 pistol?
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2011, 03:23:22 PM »
I have a 14"er that I have shot one doe with.  Right through the boiler room and it ran about 60-80 yards before expiring using 300 gr Hornadys.

Have not hunted with it lately since it has open sights on it and I am becoming visionally challenged and find myself needed scopes now days.
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