45-70 Mistake?

[Eric Johanen]

    Out yesterday with my Shiloh Rough Rider and target sights. I made a error in loading these shells...I thought I had neck sized them and they were all ready to powder. Drop tubed 80.0 grains of OE 1.5 fg an seated a .060 poly wad in the case. When seating the first BACO paper patched Money Bullet, they sorta wallowed around the case mouth! Trying to pick the wad out and dump powder would have been a real chore so what to do? I had a bunch of the Accurtate 45-486Xs bullets patched so I compressed the charge to .170 and seated the bullets and applied a slight taper crimp. Thought I'd at least get some trigger time in emptying those 20 rounds. Posted the 600 yard reduced target at 200 and proceeded to proceed. Wiped between shots. Thy chambered very nicely and actually shot pretty well. had a few flyer's due to poor sight alignment and the vertical was giving both me and my shooting partner problems due to changing light conditions. Actually not too bad of a target. I'll try this load again with properly neck sized brass. 1'st shot is the center 10 @9 and the second is the 10 @ 3. 6's at 12 and 6 were just poor sight alignment. I did get some quality trigger time in!