suppressed 45/70

[SkaerE]

anyone ever done this?

figure its along the same lines as the 300 whisper or 338 whisper, only much much bigger.

you could load up a 540 grain thumper at about 1050 fps and really lob some lead in. (it'd probably be akin to artillery though )

course it wouldnt be any good for more than about 200 yrds, but it would probably be pretty entertaining.

 

[JShirley]

Talk to Wild Alaska. They're always doing silly things with large bores.

In all honesty, I do plan on getting a suppressed .45-70 one day, probably before the quad .50, but after the suppressed .22.

John

 

[M67]

Well, it would take a lot of powder to launch 540 grains of lead at 1000 fps compared to say a 40 grain .22 LR. All that powder gas has to be cooled down before you let it out into the atmosphere. I'm not an expert, but I imagine it would take a rather large suppressor to do this successfully.

But hey, if you can suppress a .50 BMG, why not a .45/70?

 

[SkaerE]