Well, I can tell you how I found it*grins*
Back in the 1970's I went deer hunting with a friend, his brothers, and his Dad up to his Dad's cabin.
All I had was a single shot 12 gauge shotgun with a full choke and rifle sights on it and a box of 5 slugs for it.
His Dad talked me into using "this old rolling block .45/70" that his kids wouldn't use because it was long, heavy, and a single shot.
I missed a deer that first year with that rifle, but fell in love with it.
About ten years later the guy "gave" me the rifle, because his kids didn't want it, and he knew I did.
Back then military rolling blocks(#1 black powder actions)could be had for a couple hundred bucks, and this one wasn't worth squat because the metal was bare, as the guy that had it before he bought it for $10 stripped the metal and was going to reblue it, but never did.
He's gone now, and so is his son who was the friend that I went hunting with, and the rifle might be worth some decent price now...............but it's not for sale.
I'll have to dig through boxes down in the basement to find my old notebook with the "real" load data I used for that rifle. I know all I had was a can of IMR3031, a can of unique, and a can of FFFg for a cap n' ball pistol I had then.
I'll have to see if I can find my old Lee bullet molds too.
But I DO remember using a .32 S&W short case full of unique, and farina as a case filler with a .458 roundball out front, and it was almost silent, and in fact sounded like pulling a cork from a bottle.
The hammer dropping was louder than the report and with the sun over your shoulder you could see the ball fly.
Shot a LOT of pine squirrels a few greys and even a few shoeshoe hares with that load.*L*
Last time I was up at deer camp (my three dumpy trailer on an acre and a half, that butts up against federal forest land, earlier this year), I found a box of .45/70 with a big RB in magic marker on it that I left up there that has 8 405 grain reloads, 6 300 grain hollowpoints reloads and 6 340 grain lead bullet reloads that I loaded light for one of my friends son to use from a pit blind on the edge of a little clearing back in the woods that we put kids in.
It's not real clear with the passing of years, but I "think"(again I'd have to check my notes) that they're loaded with 29 grains of IMR 3031, and that they'd "casual shoot" into "minute of paper plate" at 100 yards, and that they didn't have much kick.
