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Offline dixiedog

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Thinking about a 45-70 Guide Gun (ss) ?
« on: December 06, 2006, 02:56:36 PM »
Thinking about a 45-70 SS guide gun for next years Deer season most of my shots are under 200yds. Is this ctg. to heavy for 200yds. or less.--------Thank's.
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Re: Thinking about a 45-70 Guide Gun (ss) ?
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2006, 03:57:39 PM »
What do you mean by too heavy?
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Re: Thinking about a 45-70 Guide Gun (ss) ?
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2006, 03:53:33 AM »
Load up some 300 gr. bullets and go practice at the range you want to shoot at. Will the 45-70 do a 200 yards shot, sure it will, but you need to be up for the task.
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Re: Thinking about a 45-70 Guide Gun (ss) ?
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2006, 12:51:24 PM »
Thanks for the info. I will be using factory ammo as I don't reload. I shot a friends new guide gun recently and the recoil was not as bad as my 30-06 , I will have some 200 yd. shots on power lines and some shots only 25yds. I like the lever gun more than one shot also a larger ctg.
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Re: Thinking about a 45-70 Guide Gun (ss) ?
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2006, 07:32:05 AM »


Try some Federal 300 grain Unicore loads...or the Winchester Supreme Partiton loads...Both will work wonders on deer...The new Hornady loads are supposedly pretty good...but I didn't like the keyholing I got with them out of my XLR at 250+ yards...

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