Thread: 45/70 Subsonic

2nd Fallow for the day

111 yards . . . reared up and toppled over a bank, good blood sign on the ground where it was hit, found 5 yards over the bank





chest cavity was filled with blood, top of the heart had been hit, no bones were hit .. . and still it knocks it over with authority

R.

slightly off topic ( i did warn there would be some drifting ) . . . this is for the .458 Socom operators . . some LongRange sub shooting


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcMiHEIFLWM

AAHHH, I`v got it, your shooting on a deer farm, and more new rifles come out every week than you can shake a stick at. What`s a .458 Socom?.

OK OK , I googled it, hell if the old buff hunters had that they would have wiped out the buffalo's in a week. Just shows you it`s gone the full round from .223 back to the old 45-70, sort of, all they have to do now is load it with black powder and lead bullets. Speaking of the 45-70, had a blast at the range this morning with pp 420 gr bullets, 35grs 3031, just love shooting that gun and it likes the pp loads .
, Yep, the Sharps on full auto!. at 50ms

this is the new canted scope rail . . . its on its way back to get fixed.



this is how it should look . . . below . . . the 45MOA rail on the .30/30 Marlin




if you look closely you will see the new rail is canted in the wrong direction.

bit of a pain having to wait to mount the 3.5-10 Mk4 on the Guide Gun but shit happens . . .

the plan is to swop the scopes over to the other lever action . . . then i have enough elevation with the .30/30 subs to reach out to 700yrds on steel targets, now thats a challenge.

R.

Originally Posted by homebrew.357

AAHHH, I`v got it, your shooting on a deer farm, and more new rifles come out every week than you can shake a stick at. What`s a .458 Socom?.

the population of Fallow has gone thru the roof around here . . . I'm seeing them on the roadside during the day, Pigs as well . . . Goats are everywhere . . . millions of Rabbits

the .458 Socom looks the goods, it should be a natural for hunters you would think . . . to me.

R.

the scope rail is back, bolted on nicely & now we're all set to shoot some longer range . . . lets hope the weather is good on my day off coming up this Saturday


Leupold Mk4 3.5-10 mildot with M3 dial ( 1MOA per click )

snow n rain on the hill today . .

15 Goats shot


a Stag in top condition . . 75yds, had to shoot thru scrub for a neck shot, decked it . . wouldnt have tried the shot with a lesser caliber


bullet stopped in rear leg . . damage to the front, one side and the base of the bullet, impressive performance.



settled on a load for the time being of 14.5grns TrailBoss for 965fps . . . . ran 3 shots across the Chrony working up and got 965, 966, 965fps and the tightest group so far, might be just luck but thatll do for now.

would be good to get the opportunity to get longer shots but so far the animals haven't cooperated . . . set up a few times but always the beggars moved off.

looks like its working just fine n dandy. youve got to be happy with preformance like that.

That is one lean, mean, machine, and it gets the job done real good. Bet your getting fat on venison sausage's and goat curries.

Whats your alloy mix? I will find one of my 1:20 tin lead 3030s with much more expansion. But them you start at .45 so you are on a winner already!

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Whats your alloy mix? I will find one of my 1:20 tin lead 3030s with much more expansion. But them you start at .45 so you are on a winner already!

50/50 wheelweights & scrap lead with a little Tin added, thinking i will add more soft lead and see what happens, not so much for expansion, i have a lot of it and not so much wheelweights which is harder to find.

yeah nodoubt the bigger .45 has an advantage over the .30 at sub speeds . . . . bit of a ramble here . . . use to run a combo of 197grn RCBS bullets at 1050fps and 1600fps loads in my .30/30 with good results, the high speed load with cast lead bullets flattened anything it hit, hard for non-believers to imagine the power of lead bullets at modest velocity.


very happy Micky, homebrew with the caliber/rifle setup . . . . just wish i had more time to use it, hanging out for the school holidays in a couple of weeks and a chance to get seriously stuck into the Goats . . . especially at longer ranges

next level will be stuffing the case with hand made/home brewed black powder....... now THAT just has to be one hell of a lot of fun....and oh so cheap that even my Scottish blood would get excited and want to fire off more.

How are you liking the shooting with the suppressor?

Originally Posted by Friwi

How are you liking the shooting with the suppressor?

short answer @Friwi is good . . . like the performance, price, build quality, ability to add more baffles

longer rambling answer . . . to get the noise reduction i wanted ( added an extra 3 baffles ) the over all length is a little long for best handling, balance is ok tho, the DPT is certainly light weight . . . do i cut the mag back to the forend and shorten the barrel at some future date.
the downside to barrel chops, it makes them stumpy and Loud if i want to hunt without the suppressor, not to mention killing the resale value, which is bad enough with a stock rifle . . . not sure, i will use it for awhile and see how we go.

more rambling . . . i really need to get some +200yrd kills to behind me to workout my next move . .. thinking this bullet will be ok but i dont know . . maybe a heavier bullet with BIG flat meplate, or maybe a .50 caliber of some description, its all good tho, trying to workout / build the perfect Mouse Trap.

R.