carbine85
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I picked up a nice Springfield Trapdoor Carbine. Can you guys recommend some good safe ammo for it?
I know modern ammo is a no-no.
I know modern ammo is a no-no.
".45-70" would dictate 70 grns Black powder with a 405 grn .45 bullet. for an original loading.
Not for the cavalry carbine.First shalt thou loadeth with 70 grains of holy black. No more, no less.
At the bottom is my new H&R repro 1875 Officer's model rifle which I snagged in an on-line live auction the weekend before Thanksgiving. It just arrived at my FFL yesterday. It was listed as new in box and it arrived in perfect unfired 100% condition as listed. This was manufactured in the early 1970s
IMO, I would shoot black powder - @ 63 grs 1.5F and @ 400 grs pure lead.
I owned one of these way back when. Another rifle that I never should have sold. Mine came with a color case hardened steel pistol grip adapter and had only the tang sight. These must command a pretty penny today.
HMMM, as I recall, the rifles were 45-70-500.
the carbines were 45-55-405.
I'll get a picture up soon. I just picked it from the Auction House yesterday afternoon.I’ll just hang around here and wait for you to post a picture of that carbine.
First shalt thou loadeth with 70 grains of holy black. No more, no less.
70 grains shalt be the load thou shalt use, and the grains of the load shall be 70.
80 grains shalt thou not loadeth, nor either loadeth thou 60, excepting that thou then proceed to 70.
90 grains is right out.
Once the grains be 70, being 70 grains, be reached, then lodeth thou thy bullet towards thy holy black........
No, thou shall not...not today anyway. 70 grains of black will not fit in modern cases due to the thick brass solid head case. Original cases were thin copper with folded rims - they gave poor extraction performance and failed Custer’s troopers at the Little Big Horn. The suggested load of 63 grains (post #4 above) is about all that will fit in modern brass.
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