45-70 350 gr hard cast

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[W.R.Buchanan]

Go to loading manuals find loads that start out at @1200fps and work up from there.

5744 works well in .45-70's with cast boolits. My standard load with a 325 gr boolit is 33 gr of 5744.

45 gr of 4895 sounds a little stiff to me, and 4895 is not really a good powder for this round. Find loads for 3031, 5744, W748.

make sure to get a good Roll Crimp on the boolit.

Randy

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[sofbak]

ToBook of Lee has a load for a 350 gr jacketed bullet and IMR4895 in their model 95 lever action section.

Start 57.5 gr (compressed load)
Max 61.0 gr (compressed load)

Also a jacketed 300 gr bullet load in their .45-70 US GOVT section for IMR4895.

Start 47.5 gr
Max 50.5 gr

[JagerDog]

Hodgdon list 325 and 385 gr for trapdoor rounds.

I'd probably start a bit lower like 40-42 gr, but depends what you're goal is for the load.

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Goal is to have something to shoot it a bit, get used to it and confirm the barrel indeed works. I like the 40gr suggestion, 4895 is a bit flexible in terms of loads so I'll measure it out and see how much case capacity is left over. Or find a better powder while I'm waiting for the bullets to arrive.

[sofbak]

If you have 2 lbs of 4895, sounds like "ladder time" to me: 40, 41, 42, 43, and 44 grs.