45-70 Black powder loads
Barnes cartridges of the world book it says;
The recoil from the infantry rifle load, the 45-70-500, was murderous in the lighter, shorter, carbine. They ended up with a .45-55-405 for the carbine. The carbine load would easier to shoot from a horse.
A fellow at a CAS gunshow booth told me the foot soldiers would slip a few rifle loads in to the mounted soldiers carbine loads to see if they could knock them off thier horses.
There was also issued was the .45-70 "Forager" round, which contained a thin wooden bullet filled with birdshot, intended for use hunting small game to supplement the soldiers' rations. This round in effect made the .45-70 rifle into a 49 gauge shotgun.
My trapdoor carbine load is 55grs. 2F with one wad and a 405 cast bullet.
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Last edited by bat119; 10-25-2013 at 07:35 AM.
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