Sigarms
Super Member
I honestly believe the .45-70 will be around as long as rifles are made.Straight walled cartridges' are cool like low riders and choppers, they'll be in style for a long time...with a select type of male homosapiens.
Bullet weight, bullet velocity and bullet composition (wich determines wound channel and bullet expansion) are pretty much the variables you have to deal with.
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't use a .45-70 out past 150 yards with my rifle for anything, but as it, it's good for anything in the world under 100 yards IMO from a small hog to a large elephant.
The rifles that use that round really aren't "sexy" (eyes of the beholder IMO) and are not really "marketable" with everything out today IMO (bullet weight and velocity vs gun weight = recoil).
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