I took my 45-70 to the range this morning. Got everything ready to sight it in at 25yds. I took a long look at the bullet before I put it in. Man, what a monster. I had my heavy coat on and a wadded up shirt inside of the coat. Pulled the trigger. I was expecting a jolt like my 12 ga. tracker. :eek: IT DIDN'T HAPPEN. I guess that the barrel is heavy it took alot of the recoil out :grin: Stepped it out to 50 yds and sighted it in. I'm shooting about an inch high but that could be that I'm just using the iron sights. I enjoyed shooting it so much that I will have to go get some more 300 grainers(coreloks) Of course, my POA might be just a little different. But all in all, I like this rifle a whole lot. Maybe just a little bit more than my 30-30. Now hopefully next weekend, Iwill try to go to 150 gr. coreloks and sight the 30-30-at 100 yds. Man that 45-70 is a fantastic rifle. Man I got to get some more bullets today. Well, going to clean it up. Oh, by the way, I turned some heads at the range shooting this morning. :shock: tommy