Finally

[Kevin Alexander]

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.

I won't give up on it. I got way too much money in the rifle. I have several things to look at concerning my accuracy in this rifle. Like I stated earlier, the brass definitely needs annealed. Since I know nothing about the DZ scope I'm taking it off and gonna just use my Baldwin soule for a bit at 200 yards. That will take possibly several factors out of the mix. Hopefully by the end of the day I'll feel more confident with it.