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45-70, to much pressure???
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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 222180" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>Sounds to me like you are over pressure for you action. The NEF's are not in the pressure range of a Ruger#1. With those Barns bullets you need to back off quite a bit on the powder from what you would use with a cup and core bullet. The NEF action may be flexing open a bit by too much pressure and causing the bulge on one side of your case. With the 45-70 you don't need a great deal of velocity to have a real killer on game. A 400 to 500 gr bullet at 1100 to 1300 fps will shoot through about any critter walking this earth. I shoot a lot of black powder loads in my Sharps 45-70. I once shot a deer at 110 yards that was look strait at me with 70 grs. FFG under a Lyman 420 gr. #457193 FN Cast bullet. I was aiming at the white patch on it's chest but the deer must have put it's head down between the time I fired and the bullet got there. The bullet struck the deer right between the eyes traveled down its neck making saw dust of its spine, broke the left front shoulder and exited behind the shoulder and went down and shot its left back leg completely off just above the knee. Then the bullet hit the hard pack ground of the logging road the deer was standing in and went down it for about 15 yards looking like a mole track then came out of the ground and went through a 4 inch tree and then kept going because I never found it. This bullet was only going about 1300 fps or so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 222180, member: 10178"] Sounds to me like you are over pressure for you action. The NEF's are not in the pressure range of a Ruger#1. With those Barns bullets you need to back off quite a bit on the powder from what you would use with a cup and core bullet. The NEF action may be flexing open a bit by too much pressure and causing the bulge on one side of your case. With the 45-70 you don't need a great deal of velocity to have a real killer on game. A 400 to 500 gr bullet at 1100 to 1300 fps will shoot through about any critter walking this earth. I shoot a lot of black powder loads in my Sharps 45-70. I once shot a deer at 110 yards that was look strait at me with 70 grs. FFG under a Lyman 420 gr. #457193 FN Cast bullet. I was aiming at the white patch on it's chest but the deer must have put it's head down between the time I fired and the bullet got there. The bullet struck the deer right between the eyes traveled down its neck making saw dust of its spine, broke the left front shoulder and exited behind the shoulder and went down and shot its left back leg completely off just above the knee. Then the bullet hit the hard pack ground of the logging road the deer was standing in and went down it for about 15 yards looking like a mole track then came out of the ground and went through a 4 inch tree and then kept going because I never found it. This bullet was only going about 1300 fps or so. [/QUOTE]
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