So do I really need a 45/70 Lever Gun to add to the stable?

[3Crows]

I had a Marlin 30/30 and while the "cool" factor was there, I hardly ever shot it. So it went away.

I'm at the point where I'm really not interested in adding new calibers to my collection. Rifles in .308, .223/5.56, 7.62x39, and .22 LR. Handguns in 9mm, .22 LR and .45 ACP (excluding my MILSURPs). If a gun isn't in one of those calibers, there needs to be a darn good reason for me to add it.

Well, hmm, because it much more funner than any of those you list . Nothing like actually seeing in flight a 400 grain chunk of lead go along and follow it to the steel where upon impact it breaks the chains and knocks the target over. Or load it up and watch your eyes leave your head as you go backwards or as in the old fairy tales, pick some place in between where the porridge is just about right, not too hot, not too cold, still kills everything dead.

I reload but I also buy off the shelf ammo. The ammo is not any more expensive than most hunting calibers. And as to the expense of the rifles, I was at the store looking at row upon row of expensive bolt guns all of them over $2,000 or more. Does anyone here really not buy a rifle because it is $$$ to own and shoot?

 

[Ugly Sauce]

pick some place in between where the porridge is just about right, not too hot, not too cold, still kills everything dead.

Even the cold porridge will kill anything dead. Ask the buffalos how they know that.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

The ammo is not any more expensive than most hunting calibers.

Truth, and what is expensive to one person, not so much to another, depending on the size of one's money bag. My money bag, not so big, so I reload and cast my own bullets.

I find the .45-70 economical, and enjoyable to shoot. 100 yards, 72 grains 3fg Swiss, 405 grain cast bullet. Everybody "needs" one.

 

[Weflyfast]

So do I really need a 45/70 Lever Gun to add to the stable?​

.....yes.

 

[1KPerDay]

Sure, get one. It’s your money and they’re super cool. I will get one someday but will definitely reload. I have dies and components waiting for my wallet to catch up.

 

[benEzra]

I have no experience with the .45-70 at all, but I think shooting one (sparingly!) would be neat. Chris Costa, well-known AR instructor, seems to greatly enjoy .45-70 lately and it does seem like a lot of fun.



I have to admit that most of my knowledge of .45-70 comes from reading Box o’Truth ballistic tests, wherein various obstacles are shot with various calibers, until finally .45-70 busts through the target like the Kool-Aid Man.

 

[jmorris]

The real question though is do I really need a 45/70 rifle?

Well, you can’t have one of everything without one. Have any goals or an objective? Hard to have needs without one.

 

[eastbank]

get rid of your man bun and get one. for me its not about need, but about want.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

I have no experience with the .45-70 at all, but I think shooting one (sparingly!) would be neat. Chris Costa, well-known AR instructor, seems to greatly enjoy .45-70 lately and it does seem like a lot of fun.

Right, my .45-70 is not something I plink with, or would consider a "range toy". More something to hunt with, or carry in the wilderness. Shoot once in a while, just to stay familiar with the rifle.

Dang, now I believe in different strokes for different folks, I really do, I'll do me and you do you, and all that...but...DANG, DOUBLE DANG! That's one butt-ugly rifle. Dude has been around the AR WAY WAY too long! Tried to turn a lever rifle into an AR. But that's okay, wouldn't want him hunting me down with it after I had peed in his cornflakes or something.

 

[bbqncigars]

I love shooting all of my 45-70 long guns and am frankly surprised that the tacticool lever gun pictured doesn't have a can on it.

 

[.308 Norma]

That has to be the ugliest rifle I've ever seen in my life. I LIKE it!

 

[dirtman]

On all things GUN, my want always overides my needs.... I have found it much easier to not fight the impulse .... just BUY IT, you know you really need it.....

 

[WisBorn]

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That has to be the ugliest rifle I've ever seen in my life. I LIKE it!

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[wmgeorge]

I had one and sold it a few years ago to someone on here and he got a heck of a deal, not lever action but something like a Sharps.

Now looking at another but this time a Traditions G3 45/70 with a stainless finish nice but only about $600 plus red dot optic. Yes I will reload, I have some Trail Boss and real Black Powder to try out. I purchased some factory ammo and on sale it was still $3 per!!

 

[Ed4032]

The term “need” has seldom been used as a means to convince me that it would fit perfectly with my accumulation.

 

[PapaG]

I have a few levers, one of the latest is a Rossi Rio Grande which looks much like my Marlin 336-444. Have not zeroed it yet but it does feed and shoot with some 405 grain bullets and 30 some grains of3031. And it backs up with authority. Next year I will make a plug and scope it for IL deer season.
One has to have a 45-70 lever gun.
(And a 30-30, 357, 44, 444, and 308)