For your 45-70, get a 480 grain flat nosed bullet and cast it 50/50 wheel weights and lead, or 30-1 lead to tin. Drive it at 1200 to 1250 fps, and you are set for anything. I have shot through and through both shoulders of a 2000 pound bull bison at 84 yards, and through a bull elk lengthwise with that load out of my 45-70 Sharps. Deer and hogs are simply a slam dunk. The only one of those bullets I have ever recovered was from a cow kudu on a center chest shot at 100 yards, and the bullet was at the base of her tail. The bullet still weighs 478 of its original 480 grains.
Last edited by sharpsguy; 07/20/14.
