Trapdoors

[Tombstone 71]

My father had a 45-70 trapdoor carbine when he was 14 or so. He loaned it to a friend and never got it back. I came across a 1873 rifle in 45-70 that was in good shape and gave it to him last year for his bd. He flipped out big time Before I gave it to him I loaded it with a 520 lyman 457123 with 60gr's of 1f and shot it at 200 yard's on paper. I did not think that it even hit the target and as I was going back to the 600yrd. line to shoot my 120 shiloh I did not look at the target until later in the day. WOW, out of 5 shots 3 were touching and the last 2 were only 3" out of the group. I now have a 1884 rifle in 45-70 and it is a joy to shoot.

Tim