Impressive .45 Colt load

[Scott Tschirhart]

Big heavy bullet at moderate velocity.

https://youtu.be/KZKqBEehy5Y?si=a12oVfxoZNbH88L-

[Rube Burrows]

Plowboy got himself a good one with that one. Should get any critter in north america to re-think its life decisions on attacking him.

[AmBraCol]

Big heavy bullet at moderate velocity.

https://youtu.be/KZKqBEehy5Y?si=a12oVfxoZNbH88L-

Can't help but wonder how that'd work through the 40th Anniversary Marlins.

[Bill in Oregon]

That ought to go nose to tail through a really big bear. Not sure I'd want to shoot up a box at one sitting.

[Scott Tschirhart]

Big heavy bullet at moderate velocity.

https://youtu.be/KZKqBEehy5Y?si=a12oVfxoZNbH88L-

Can't help but wonder how that'd work through the 40th Anniversary Marlins.

I think it will chamber and shoot fine. But we would probably need to modify the mechanism a little to get it to feed. Not much though and Mic’s book shows exactly how.

[JimT]

I have used that mod on a Marlin 30-30 and it was easy to do.

[Scott Tschirhart]

We used it on a 94 in .357 to allow me to seat a 180 grain XTP in the bottom groove. We loaded the ammo pretty hot with a compressed charge of LilGun

[GunnyMack]

Very impressive load. Milk jugs are 10" deep multiply by 14 for 140" ( or 11 ft 8" ) of penetration is nothing to sneeze at ! Certainly go through your average run of the mill critter up to pachyderms.
I'd like to see those big heavy 41s he mentioned.

[wvfarrier]

That is fearsome

[samsi]

That would be interesting to try, the heaviest I've shot was a 330 Gould sized down to .452 launched at about 1100. No idea of the penetration but I doubt it was like that stomper.

[Scott Tschirhart]

I clocked my deer killer load this weekend and that 270SAA is going a little over 930 fps.

No barn burner but it seems to be plenty.

[Scott Tschirhart]

The book I was referring to:

[JimT]

Excellent book!

[Bill in Oregon]

Scott, your 270SAA load is more like it for what I would need. No Alaska trips on the calendar for the foreseeable future.

[Scott Tschirhart]

I’m pretty sure it would serve well even in Alaska.

Particularly since a man can probably shoot it better.

[Grizz]

I’m pretty sure it would serve well even in Alaska.

Particularly since a man can probably shoot it better.

well it absolutely would work in Alaska, which is just like and no different than anywhere else where big, Big animals live.
it's the land that is BIG BIG BIG, and there are awesome obstacles to getting home at night. still miss it. still dream my memories of there.

[Paladin]

I’m pretty sure it would serve well even in Alaska.

Particularly since a man can probably shoot it better.

well it absolutely would work in Alaska, which is just like and no different than anywhere else where big, Big animals live.
it's the land that is BIG BIG BIG, and there are awesome obstacles to getting home at night. still miss it. still dream my memories of there.

I don't have any rifles that small in my locker in Alaska, even though they all are .45 caliber. The only pistols are a 10mm and a .22.

[Grizz]

I’m pretty sure it would serve well even in Alaska.

Particularly since a man can probably shoot it better.

well it absolutely would work in Alaska, which is just like and no different than anywhere else where big, Big animals live.
it's the land that is BIG BIG BIG, and there are awesome obstacles to getting home at night. still miss it. still dream my memories of there.

I don't have any rifles that small in my locker in Alaska, even though they all are .45 caliber. The only pistols are a 10mm and a .22.

nice! what's the .22?

[Paladin]

A suppressed 22 Ruger pistol or other for killing dinner when hunting big game.

I bought this one at Wild West Arms after I wore out a Sig Mosquito

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[Crazy Horse]

I enjoyed that video. I had no idea you could get a bullet that heavy for a 45 LC

[Scott Tschirhart]

A suppressed 22 Ruger pistol or other for killing dinner when hunting big game.

Sounds like a good plan. No pun intended.

[Rimfire McNutjob]

I thought the 300 LBT's in my bird's head gun were heavies. I stand corrected.

[Scott Tschirhart]

I don’t think I need that much horsepower for anything around here, but it was interesting nonetheless.

Big, heavy slugs at moderate velocities do very good things.

[Griff]

That is fearsome

My shoulder hurts just reading about it.

[Bryan Austin]

God forbid someone mention a 44-40 +P+....then the whole world blows up!

[Bill in Oregon]

Bryan, I want to hear more.

[AJMD429]

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A TKO of 29 out of a handgun is mighty tough.

Interesting point he made on the loading gate jumping out of position if there's not a cartridge case in the 4-o'clock position when shooting.

[Scott Tschirhart]

Montana Bullet Works is apparently out of business so I will be shooting a different 270 gr slug from Rimrock. Seems be behave just like a 270SAA but the nose is just a hair shorter.

Same loads seem to shoot to the same point of impact.

[High Desert Hunter]

I sure cast and shoot a lot of the 45-270SAA bullets, have even patched them and used them on hares and ptarmigan when I was in Alaska from my 45/70. For the longest time it was 8.5gr of Unique under the bullet which drops at 280gr from my RCBS mould, 284gr from the MP 4 cavity copy, now it's generally 10.5gr of Longshot. Works quite well through the Marlin Cowboy 20" I picked up last week, that bullet is used in 97.2687328% of my 45 Colt shooting, and with 12 grains of Unique, about half of my 454 Casull shooting. Just need to get my Flattop 45 throats cleaned up so I can shoot them seated properly in it too.

Dave