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Wonderful rifle, great caliber. This brings back memories from Coopers Landing AK in the 1980's there was a good group of metallic cartridge black powder shooters there.
My dad had a model 1874 Sharps and trapdoor Springfield in 45-70 and a Borchardt Sharps in 45-90 that was chambered for paper patch bullets.
45-70 government was at one time a fairly common caliber as it was a Army surplus gun Caliber. The old timers said you can buy a trapdoor Springfield Army surplus rifle cheap and shoot deer with it or a 410 shot gun shell is close enough to the 45-70 shell and it would fire in it to shoot rabbits and light game.
Thanks for sharing your rifle.
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