Congratulations to you and your son, Charles! Give the young man a great big bear hug for me. That's awesome - a "first" anything is always the best.
And hey - not bad for a 136 year old "obsolete" cartridge fired from an "obsolete" old lever gun, huh? "Sledgehammer" is an apt description. The ol' .45-70 just keeps marching along, outliving dozens of young upstarts along the way. It just plain
works.
Cold?!? But it looks so nice and sunny in the pictures....