New build plans?

[michiganmuzzy]

Which one do you have? SS or black/ blue model?

SS

 

[LBAhunter]

SS

I prefer the black/blue model.

 

[michiganmuzzy]

I prefer the black/blue model.

There are times when i get annoyed by this muzzle brake and wish it was the longer blue unthreaded barrel

 

[Mnt monkey]

That longer-barreled model in 45-70 was one of the most accurate rifles I've ever owned but it was also one of the most brutal ones I've ever owned, I brought a stainless model A couple of years later and thought about having it converted but I did not it didn't shoot as good as the blue model, that blue model 45-70 shot every bullet you put in it, I used to make my friends shoot it before I would let them shoot a muzzleloader,, without a pillow it was absolutely brutal on the bench,, yes pillow!!

 

[LBAhunter]

There are times when i get annoyed by this muzzle brake and wish it was the longer blue unthreaded barrel

I had went to my LGS and had put my hands on both models. I figured, I didn't need the brake with the loads I was gonna shoot and didn't want to mess with a brake.

 

[Mnt monkey]

On that particular rifle myself I like the longer Barrel it felt better in my hands it wasn't just the phenomenal accuracy I liked it better it handled better it's been said many times, begara can make such good 45-70 barrels when they want to

 

[LBAhunter]

 

[LBAhunter]

That longer-barreled model in 45-70 was one of the most accurate rifles I've ever owned but it was also one of the most brutal ones I've ever owned, I brought a stainless model A couple of years later and thought about having it converted but I did not it didn't shoot as good as the blue model, that blue model 45-70 shot every bullet you put in it, I used to make my friends shoot it before I would let them shoot a muzzleloader,, without a pillow it was absolutely brutal on the bench,, yes pillow!!

65gr of 4198 with a 275 gr. bullet would be brutal to me in one converted.

 

[michiganmuzzy]

65gr of 4198 with a 275 gr. bullet would be brutal to me in one converted.

32gr of n110 and a 180-195 bullet is a breeze to shoot and very accurate.

 

[LBAhunter]

* or *gr of n110 and a 180-195 bullet is a breeze to shoot and very accurate.

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I hope that's a typo!!!!!

 

[ElDiablo]

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I hope that's a typo!!!!!

Yes, because 42 gr of N110 with a 225 is 43,200 psi!

 

[michiganmuzzy]

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I hope that's a typo!!!!!

Sorry, yeah i meant 32gr of n110 with a 180XTP. I shoot 56 of imr4198.

 

[michiganmuzzy]

32gr of n110 and a 180-195 bullet is a breeze to shoot and very accurate.

Fixed it.

 

[LBAhunter]

32gr of n110 and a 180-195 bullet is a breeze to shoot and very accurate.

That load is good up to 225gr., depending on what ignition system you running.

 

[Ninering62]

32gr of n110 and a 180-195 bullet is a breeze to shoot and very accurate.

I really like that load a lot.

 

[Ninering62]

That longer-barreled model in 45-70 was one of the most accurate rifles I've ever owned but it was also one of the most brutal ones I've ever owned, I brought a stainless model A couple of years later and thought about having it converted but I did not it didn't shoot as good as the blue model, that blue model 45-70 shot every bullet you put in it, I used to make my friends shoot it before I would let them shoot a muzzleloader,, without a pillow it was absolutely brutal on the bench,, yes pillow!!

The only 45-70 that I've ever shot was my friends Henry Golden Boy & the bullets were 325g Hornady FTX I believe. It did shoot exceptionally well, but the recoil was not fun at all. I think I fired 5 rounds out of it & that was eeeeenough. A pillow would have been very welcome lol

 

[Outdoornut1]

What did you do to make your Mountaineer Smls? I got one never shot that I wanted to

I already have 2 sml's.One is a Knight mountaineer with a Brux 45 barrel and the other is my new Omega with Boyds t/h stock and Woodman arms 45 sml barrel.So that is a bolt action and breakopen if I can call it that.

do, but couldn't find any info on it

 

[SuperKirby]

I am just finishing up a build I started back in May. Mark made me a .45 barrel for an Encore. I sent the frame to him to be nitrided so it all matched and had the stock hydrodipped. I received the barrel and am just waiting for the breech plug and it will be ready to go. Should come in right about 8 lbs. Super excited for it.

 

[brownisdown]

Sent the barrel to a guy in Ohio named Cole Myers and he put a 26''Brux barrel on it with the factory breech plug.His company was CMC until his shop burned down,but don't know if he is still in business.Then later I had bestill here in Indiana put one of his rear sealing plugs in it.Bestill use to do the Knights but think he quit doing them as well.

 

[brownisdown]

I also have a Knight Mountaineer 45 with the 1;20 twist 27'' barrel that has never been shot either.Been sitting in the gun cabinet for 1 1/2 years.Since I just finished building my Omega sml I am going to leave the Knight 45 alone.