Indeed, a fact well established over the years. Why even a 29 grain spit of lead at lower velocity has been known to whack a hog now and again.

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FWIW, I'm loading these at 1.875" COAL which is .005" short of kissing the lands. That geometry puts the bullet base at the neck/shoulder junction. Listed C.O.A.L. for a small variety of cartridges used in leverguns per SAAMI spec:
.357 - 1.590"
.32-20 - 1.592"
.44-40 - 1.592"
.44 Special - 1.615"

Can seat the Sneezer bullets another .020" or so before it gets weird, so call it 1.855" +/- w/o doing any case mod. Then again, there's a lot of neck that can be trimmed there. Near a 1/2". There's another case out there that's maybe more practical for the leverguns and is called the .30 Badger, based on the .38 Spc. case. Second from the right:

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Might give an idea which levergun could choke 'em down?

Last edited by DigitalDan; 01/01/16.
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