Bloodline--You need to get some real world experience with a 45-70 before you go bonkers on your key board. If you want to see what a 45-70 is all about, I would suggest that you stand out at 400 yards or so and let me shoot at you with my Sharps 45-70 loaded with 500 grain cast bullets pushed by black powder. I won't even need a scope.

On second thought, that's not such a good idea. You wouldn't survive the experience, so I am withdrawing the offer.