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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 2014814" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>I also have been shooting 45 caliber rifles for years and never heard of a bullet that heavy. For the past number of years I have shot a Sharps 1874 copy falling block in 45-70 mainly with black powder or Accurate 5744 with cast bullets. A case full (about 63 grs by weight) compressed about 1/10 of an inch, with a waxed card ward on top which allows you to properly seat the bullet, of FFG or Cartridge grade Goex black powder and the 500ish gr., depending on your mix, bullet from the RCBS 45-500-BPS mold. Lubed with either SPG lube or my home made 50% bees wax, 40% olive oil, 10% STP oil treatment by volume lube lit my Federal 215 primer runs 1100 fps on average and is super accurate and I have not shot a deer with it that would stop it no matter which direction it was put into one. Same load with Lyman's 405 flat nose or 27 grs Accurage 5744 smokeless runes 1400 fps is very accurate and no deer has stopped it either. I shot one at 111 yards the was facing me with the BP 405 gr. bullet load. I was aiming at the white patch in the center of it's chest. Dropped in it's tracks. Turned out that the deer must have started putting it's head down at the moment I shot and by the time the bullet got there it struck it between the eyes about 1 inch above eye line. Bullet traveled down the spine in the neck making saw dust of it and then deflected slightly to the right and exited just behind the left shoulder angling downward and hit the left back leg just above the knee and shot it completely off. The bullet then hit the hard packed sandy logging road and looked like a mole had gone down it for about 5 yards. Then the bullet came out of the ground and about 3 feet away hit a yellow pine tree about 3 inches thick and the exit took a slab the size of my hand off it. I don't know where the bullet went from there probably not far. A freight train don't have to be going fast to crash through a bunch of stuff. Good luck in your endeavors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 2014814, member: 10178"] I also have been shooting 45 caliber rifles for years and never heard of a bullet that heavy. For the past number of years I have shot a Sharps 1874 copy falling block in 45-70 mainly with black powder or Accurate 5744 with cast bullets. A case full (about 63 grs by weight) compressed about 1/10 of an inch, with a waxed card ward on top which allows you to properly seat the bullet, of FFG or Cartridge grade Goex black powder and the 500ish gr., depending on your mix, bullet from the RCBS 45-500-BPS mold. Lubed with either SPG lube or my home made 50% bees wax, 40% olive oil, 10% STP oil treatment by volume lube lit my Federal 215 primer runs 1100 fps on average and is super accurate and I have not shot a deer with it that would stop it no matter which direction it was put into one. Same load with Lyman's 405 flat nose or 27 grs Accurage 5744 smokeless runes 1400 fps is very accurate and no deer has stopped it either. I shot one at 111 yards the was facing me with the BP 405 gr. bullet load. I was aiming at the white patch in the center of it's chest. Dropped in it's tracks. Turned out that the deer must have started putting it's head down at the moment I shot and by the time the bullet got there it struck it between the eyes about 1 inch above eye line. Bullet traveled down the spine in the neck making saw dust of it and then deflected slightly to the right and exited just behind the left shoulder angling downward and hit the left back leg just above the knee and shot it completely off. The bullet then hit the hard packed sandy logging road and looked like a mole had gone down it for about 5 yards. Then the bullet came out of the ground and about 3 feet away hit a yellow pine tree about 3 inches thick and the exit took a slab the size of my hand off it. I don't know where the bullet went from there probably not far. A freight train don't have to be going fast to crash through a bunch of stuff. Good luck in your endeavors. [/QUOTE]
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