Finally

[Kurt]

Kevin my first rifle was the .40-70. For me it did not take much to get it up and running. The .40-70 at time gets a lot of bad reb that it just wont shoot worth a hoot. I never found it with mine. Mine has a 16 twist with a 34" barrel and it has won me dust collectors in the gong shoots. I been thinking cutting 4" off the barrel to get it down to silhouette weight and use it for that, but all the .40-65 talk of late and I been procrastinating all last summer when I started shooting the silhouette matches I drew up a reamer print and sent it off to Manson to get the reamer for this rifle.
The .40-70 is a good round. Don't give up on it.