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Originally posted by Jeff Higgins
Drdogface, I like your cartridge selection. That .38-70 must be a real challenge, though. It's a bottleneck, isn't it? That, coupled with all that capacity in a .38 bore must make life interesting.
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Hammer,
Actually the 38-70 is a wonderful round. It is an original BP round but only chambered in the Win 1886 and not many of those. We have reworked it to a single shot in a 12 twist bbl. With 71.5 gr of Swiss it'll reach 1400 fps and is very accurate out to 1000 yards..as long a range as I have tested it. Yes, it is slightly bottle neck and made from 45/90 brass necked down. Ours is also neck turned to fit the match chamber but that's not really necessary in less than match conditions. Due to it being bottle neck we can only compress about 50 thou..no more. BTW, I have not used a blow tube in years...all of us wipe between shots with two patches dampend with water plus 10% soluable oil. Eliminate the variables...name of the game.