45/70 BFR

[pennsylvaniaboy]

Yeh my question wasn't meant as criticism, just curiousity as to the use or purpose of these. I bet they are a rush to shoot.

[grizzly]

Jan 25, 2017 20:43:56 GMT -5 Quick Draw McGraw said:

Jan 25, 2017 20:20:37 GMT -5 grizzly said:

I have one chambered in 50-110 WCF. It's a handfull.

Sweet! I remember seeing an old Century Arms .50-110 years ago in a book I was reading. It was pretty damn cool! Is it fun to shoot?

Oh yeah it's a lot of fun. So far I've only fired factory ammo from Grizzly cartridges. I think the barrel length on mine is around 7.5" not including the muzzle brake, overall it's close to 9".

[Quick Draw McGraw]

Jan 24, 2017 18:30:51 GMT -5 whitworth said:

Yeah they're big and clunky, but they're cool. A revolver chambered in that big cartridge is a bit of a novelty, but the things really do shoot well. Mine is exceedingly accurate.

I'm really curious, just HOW hot can you safely push your loads? I have three pages in my Hornady Reloading Manual, the hottest loads falling under "Ruger No.1" only. Can you push them that hot?

[Encore64]

Maybe this will help..

However, mine came with paperwork recommending Ruger #1 loads. I think the new recommendation has more to do with recoil than pressure. The same gun is made in 500 S&W Magnum which is larger in diameter and operates at 60,000 psi.

www.magnumresearch.com/faq-BFR.asp

[mbaneacp]

Hey Max…sorry we didn't connect at SHOT…NRA???

I just notified Magnum Research that I was buying the 45-70 BFR they sent out months ago, because…'MERICA! Or something like that. Actually, I put it to a vote on social media on whether I should purchase the big blaster…guess how the vote went?

I'm thinking of taking it on a hog hunt down in Texas just for the heck of it, then film it for my new Internet project, SHOOTING GALLERY ONLINE. I've wanted a 45-70 since I got rid of my J.D. Jones 10-inch 45-70 Contender, the "knuckle-buster." Couple of years ago I shot one of the old Century Mfg brass-framed single actions and it got me all interested in the big blaster again. Realistically, I figure the 405-gr lead factory loads will do a perfectly adequate job of whacking piggies.

In a case of thread drift, I thought I'd mention I've recently discovered the Zen of the Desert Eagle .50AE. I hadn't shot one in ages when we did the GUN STORIES WITH JOE MANTEGNA episode on the Deagle. It was so much fun to shoot I got one of my own (in post-Apoc WMD ceracote, no less). The beast shoots irrationally well!

Michael B

[gunsbam45]

I don't have one, and have never shot one, but Ashley Emerson has been telling me about working with one over the past year or so, and he found it to be a pretty useful setup. He liked it well enough he developed a new 540 grain Hammerhead load specifically for the BFR. It runs 1200 FPS out of the 7.5" standard barrel. That is some serious ballistic power from a handgun. I'm looking forward to trying it. Sounds like the gun is heavy enough it makes the recoil considerably more manageable than you'd think. The round is standard SAAMI pressure.

[whitworth]

Jan 31, 2017 22:33:49 GMT -5 gunsbam45 said:

I don't have one, and have never shot one, but Ashley Emerson has been telling me about working with one over the past year or so, and he found it to be a pretty useful setup. He liked it well enough he developed a new 540 grain Hammerhead load specifically for the BFR. It runs 1200 FPS out of the 7.5" standard barrel. That is some serious ballistic power from a handgun. I'm looking forward to trying it. Sounds like the gun is heavy enough it makes the recoil considerably more manageable than you'd think. The round is standard SAAMI pressure.

I had the "pleasure" of testing some the first ammo he developed for the BFR in .45/70 and it is in a word, stout.

[gunsbam45]

"A tad hostile" is how I believe you're spose to say it.(I'd put a smiley face here instead of a period but I'm not smart enough to figure out how to pull it off.) Do you know for sure the stuff you ran is the load he settled on? I know the 405 in .45 Colt load is much tamer than it started out to be in earlier testing. What he referred to as "a tad snappy" to me, another friend of ours who fired it from the 4" Redhawk I sent called it a series of things, but "beyond brutal" was at the top of the repeatable descriptions. Just backing that load down 75 FPS made it a useful load that most experienced big bore shooters would like to pack. It's perfect out of a 5 hole Bisley IMHO. Ashley is so large framed and his hands are so big he's gotta go off pressure tests and other people crying and screaming to set his loads down to manageable levels for normal humans I think.