Thread: 45/70 Subsonic

Not subsonic but I was going to pull some 300 gr Hornady's untill I found a more fun use. There is an old gumtree near a deer fence that was going to drop a large limb over the fence and Murphy's law says we will not be home when it does and the deer will escape into the wild. So 33 rounds later 1 branch fell inside and 2 outside the fence.









Will this new use make the 45/70 and ammo a tax deductable expense

several thoughts come to mind @john m


i am shocked . . . that no one thought of this sooner

are you sure about the tax deductable thing for ammo

very nice lookn rifle/scope combo

so many trees in the background to cut down . ..

good on ya mate . . . R


ps . . . . dont try this at home kids wihtout adult supervision

We'll the chainsaw fuel is tax deductible so----- Imagine a team of 45 70 shooters felling that block over the fence ��

I have shot pinecones and leaders with a shotty doing forestry (the bits are evidently used for testing). The shotgun beretta extrema had been bought as a business expence as well as a couple of slabs a year
The boss always seemed to have it over opening weekend.

The hunting with my Sharps will be pretty slowwww, the beast weighs 12 1/2 lbs, so if I can find one or two goats , but I do take it with me on hunts and if the lands a bit flat, you never know.
, Your right guys, just the thing for nocking down trees.

your rifle weights about the same as my heavy varmint rifle @homebrew.357 . . . after a day carrying it around the hills here i feel like I'm carrying a truck axle over my shoulder on the way back to the vehicle - having said that i like heavy guns when it comes time to pull the trigger on something.

for hunting thru the tight stuff i am appreciating the Marlin Guide gun, it weighs fck all, its short, balances well, points well, the nice thin slab sided reciever fits the hand well . .. just about the perfect bush rifle i have ever handled . . to me


hit this Stag at 60yds on the run last night . . . he went another 20yds then hit the breaks, fell over

a blood trail a blind man could follow . . . this part i especially like



bullet hit behind the right shoulder, went between the ribs, thru the lungs, out between the ribs, missed the shoulder/leg bones . . . no bones hit making a big difference to the size of the wounds . . but still dropped him in short order.

@homebrew.357 were you at the range on Sunday??

Yep, That was me making a fog over the range with old lead poison and the beast. Rossi you must like lots of venison sausages , this drilling large holes in small deer is becoming a habit, I`m dead jealous, I`m having to hunt my deer in pack and save. I can only carry mine for short walks as I have a meatal hip, so I mostly take my Marlin 3030, its only got a 16" barrel so nice and light for bush bashing.

thought i recognised that beautiful rifle and the stand you carried in. I was the young crazy guy in barefeet at the other end.
Tell you what homebrew your gun was much more pleasant than the guy with the muzzle break down the end sending shockwaves through anyone within 10m.

Yes they are fun guns to shoot and as Rossi.45 has shown sub loads get the job done . I`m just up a bit at 1.200/300 fps with black or nitro and with a 420gr slug it hits with the authority of flying bricks, well on my targets anyway, I have yet to get something for the table with it yet.

the DPT suppressor is now fitted . . . shown with 1 baffle on making for a length of 20 inches



the plan is to add 2 baffles at a time to see what kind of reduction i get, how it handles, POI changes as i change the amount of baffles . . . these modular suppressors are new to me but i do like the idea.



the work was done by Greg at Custom Guns . . . a really good guy to deal with, likes to talk guns, has a lot of experience with 45/70s suppressed and .45s in general.

showed me his personal Big hitter, a very nicely balanced rifle . . . a 458 based on the RUM case with the potential to go +3000fps with 350grn bullets, what the recoil is like i dont want to know.

also a little Bergara singleshot in .45/70 in the shop took my interest, stainless, fluted barrel, threaded already . . . quality looked n felt good.



waiting on the 25MOA rail to put the Mk4 on and the major stuff is done . . . may look at chopping the barrel/mag back later on.

Being a Quigley Sharps man and of the old school a muffler on the end of a rifle just doesn't work for me. Will it work with a large bore rifle?, that big hole would just let the sound carry on through, ok the subs could be alright , I would take care if shooting pp bullets, could gum up the hole a bit.

first shots thru the suppressor last night . . . fired over the bonnet of the truck, not the best for a true indication of precision but similar performance to what i can shoot in the field.



noise levels were ok with the pistol powder loads . . . outstanding with TrailBoss, a nice Boomff, POI was 2.00inches lower than the 1020fps load so at a guess somewhere around 950fps

later i will experiment with different amounts of baffles on . . . fine tune the load and barrel bedding



waiting on the canted rail now . . . R.

this is the TrailBoss load 12.5grns .. . nice round group, definitely will load up some more over the next few weeks adding more gas till i reach a noise level/velocity that i am happy with

71 yards . . . . heart n lungs both hit with bone fragments .. . smashed it.









i kept the back steaks, everything else i dropped off to my neighbours and some workmates.