Thread: Improving 45-70 ammo with a mandrel

This next one is from the 1984 Lyman RL handbook (which a kind soul gave me recently) perfect for this stuff as it has cast loads in it. Keeping in mind these polymer jacket or pc bullets aren't to be found in reloading manuals. I take extra precautions when testing these. But there's no point shooting cowboy loads imo just because the break barrel falls into a 'grey zone'. But to be safer I'm using cci200 primers and the recoil I'm currently on is medium (it's a bastard if you go too high anyway)

My cbe mould knocks em out at 430gn using my bhn mix of 13-14 with no check (the checks only being needed to clean the barrel). The beauty of powdercoating is that it likes to fill any gap so you can shoot any profile unchecked if you like.