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Get a 45-70 Guide-gun.
Bullets for the .444 are (or were) .44 Mag handgun bullets.
You start out handloading at 180 grain, and can go up to about 300 or so due to limitations of the .444's rifling twist being optomized for 240's.
The 45-70 is just getting started at 300 grains, and can be loaded to 500+ grain bullets.
The .450 Marlin is just a belted 45-70 performance-wise, and ammo availibilty & price in out of the way places is going to be problematic.
rcmodel
Bullets for the .444 are (or were) .44 Mag handgun bullets.
You start out handloading at 180 grain, and can go up to about 300 or so due to limitations of the .444's rifling twist being optomized for 240's.
The 45-70 is just getting started at 300 grains, and can be loaded to 500+ grain bullets.
The .450 Marlin is just a belted 45-70 performance-wise, and ammo availibilty & price in out of the way places is going to be problematic.
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