Thread: 45/70 Subsonic

Originally Posted by Cordite

The .45/70 is no sissy gun.

What must also have been some gun would be a Lee Metford .303/71.5 firing a 225grain bullet. They actually managed to get 71.5grains of blackpowder into the case - which was of similar dimensions to a 30/40 Krag - by inserting a solid, oblong BP pellet, slightly rounded at its ends and with a hollow through its middle (first instance of a single solid BP pellet?), and only then bottlenecking the cartridge. Obviously not with reloaders in mind.

I think from memory it had some 1800 fps muzzle velocity, whereas the much later cordite Mk 7 .303 fired a 174grain spitzer at up to 2400fps. Can't help thinking what velocity that 174grain spitzer would have flown at if it had its ancestral BP pellet behind it.

all i can say is you wouldnt find me around the potato gun . . . i would be admiring the .45

well done on the LR shooting . . . i can imagine the scene . . . BANG . . . wait for it . . . wait for it . . . Bong !

R.