Hi All,
I have ordered a nice new Henry Colour Case Hardened rifle in 45-70gvt, it should arrive in the next few weeks and I'm doing my homework on the best route for reloading. The purpose of the gun is for Lever gun comps, general paper punching, historic/cowboy themed shoots etc. (I'm not going to hunt with it!, I have 6.5se for that)
I'm quite keen to take the rifle out to 100-300yards and I'm working on paper to figure out a good reload. I don't want to use hard cast heads due to the amount of use the gun is going to have and the amount of time I really want to spend scrubbing lead out of the bore, so I think a jacketed bullet is the way I want to go, and I'm looking at options available to me using heads that aren't super-duper expanding or vicious (Bisley doesn't really like the use of insane expanding ammo on their ranges, I know expanding is seen as expanding but this is just what I'm told) I think the Hornady FTX 350gr could be a good option to start from as they have a flextip ideal for tubular magazines and I would be justified in using them in a lever gun, same goes for Nosler .458 300gr ballistic tips. I have read loads of threads about Berry's bullets being the best option but these are out of stock EVERYWHERE!
Any advice from shooters on this topic would be great, and any sharing of load data would be wonderful.
Many thanks
James
I have ordered a nice new Henry Colour Case Hardened rifle in 45-70gvt, it should arrive in the next few weeks and I'm doing my homework on the best route for reloading. The purpose of the gun is for Lever gun comps, general paper punching, historic/cowboy themed shoots etc. (I'm not going to hunt with it!, I have 6.5se for that)
I'm quite keen to take the rifle out to 100-300yards and I'm working on paper to figure out a good reload. I don't want to use hard cast heads due to the amount of use the gun is going to have and the amount of time I really want to spend scrubbing lead out of the bore, so I think a jacketed bullet is the way I want to go, and I'm looking at options available to me using heads that aren't super-duper expanding or vicious (Bisley doesn't really like the use of insane expanding ammo on their ranges, I know expanding is seen as expanding but this is just what I'm told) I think the Hornady FTX 350gr could be a good option to start from as they have a flextip ideal for tubular magazines and I would be justified in using them in a lever gun, same goes for Nosler .458 300gr ballistic tips. I have read loads of threads about Berry's bullets being the best option but these are out of stock EVERYWHERE!
Any advice from shooters on this topic would be great, and any sharing of load data would be wonderful.
Many thanks
James