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04-13-2016, 09:35 AM,
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Kurt
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RE: CSA 40-70 Hepburn
Hey it looks like you guys are getting out and having some fun. Sure looks and sounds like some fine shooters.
Mike, instead of that Coke, that stuff will eat your Gizzard. Just take three table spoons of honey mixed in corn juice that will open the lamps more 
Good shooting at those iron critters Mike. My turn at my first will be in a week and halve, but my drive is about 6 hrs through the concrete jungles off to the east of me.
I finally took the East Coast Parlor gun out yesterday. The weather finally made 50 degrees and the sun was shining instead of rain or snow and had a good time.
I don't shoot that .45-70 to often, but I should.
The reason a dog has so many friends is because he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
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04-13-2016, 10:40 AM,
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Mike
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RE: CSA 40-70 Hepburn
Kurt, I'll try the "honey fix" for the eyes, for sure. And be sure to tell us 'bout your experience with the steel critters. For me that was a whole new ball game and it even required a new rifle. I started with my '74 in .44/77 but graduated to the Highwall in .40/70 SS. No real advantage there. The new rifle was then fitted with a scope because in certain degrees of sunlight and shade, I couldn't always see the targets, especially the turkeys. And, by the way, last weekend's weather was simply the best for "silly-wet" shooting, a bright overcast so visibility was very good. I must credit some of that good lighting to my best-so-far score. Now I'm all the way up into A Class... That's only one step higher than the bottom but it sure encourages me to keep trying and doing even better. Shoot sharp, Mike
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04-13-2016, 02:38 PM,
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Kurt
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RE: CSA 40-70 Hepburn
I been working with the two .45-70's. The Shiloh and Brownchester 85 high wall. I even got a split case of Swiss 1.5 and 2F to see just how good it is compared to the KIK and the OE.
I haven't hardly ever shot the .45-70's but they are the only rifles that make the 12# 2oz weight so they will be it. I tried several PP and GG and they all shot well, BUT they don't compare to the old POPE designed bullets, the Lyman 121PH that looks like them.
Yesterday was a perfect day for seeing what a load would do. good light on the target face 4 MPH head on breeze temp just cleared 50 degrees, perfect day.
The brown Chester 85 BPCR with 68 gr or 1.5 swiss shot less then 3 -1/4" @ 200 several groups less then three inches down to 1-1/2 inch with the Wolf primers. I tried Fed Match, WLR, and Wolf because that is all I have left except the Fed gold match pistol primers.
The Parlor Shiloh knocked off my hat twice when I went down to look and measure the groups. Could not imagine that that rifle shot that well. No wonder my Daughter shoots my ears off with it when we shoot together.
1-3/4, 2", and 3/4" using the wolf primers that been in dry storage since the last primer shortage several years ago.
I find it hard to shoot a 3/4" group at 130 yards in my yard with a scope on my other rifles but this rifle is not tapped for blocks and don't look like it needs it shooting that rumble strip Pop bullet.
Don.
Got a E-Mail from Gail. I told her I will be shooting at Alma Sat. and Sunday the weekend of the 24th and I asked her how she was coming with the .45-90 and she said it should be done In 1-1/2 weeks if she gets some screws. Man that would save a lot of driving through the concrete jungles they call city's beings I'm more then halve way there already.
Kurt
The reason a dog has so many friends is because he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
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