Home Forums Hunting & Shooting BPCR 50-70 Govt Granddaddy of them all for sport or battle

I confess to having dabbled in smokeless powder with the .50-70 Govt. cartridge.
I added 0.200" length of 0.512"-diameter parallel-sided free-bore to the throat,
loading it 0.200" longer in COL adds a little over 10 grains of water to effective case capacity.



So loaded with smokeless I call my re-barreled Pedersoli Rolling Block the ".50-70 Little Bighorn."

Note the sights and the initial sight-in, discussion to follow:







The fouling shot goes high then the next four settle down:
(Please excuse the busy target, lots of info there.)



Filing down the front sight would not do with the Beach combo.



If I can raise the POI at 50 yards by 2 inches through increasing the charge with the same bullet,
then the pinhead globe and big gold post will shoot together with the flat-top-V-notch open rear sight, dead-on at 50 yards.
Then the lowest setting on the peep will be 6" high at 50 yards.
Adjust that to 8" high at 50 yards and
it will then be about a foot high at 100 yards, and dead-on at 200 yards,
with lots of adjustment left for long range pestering fire.
YEE HA !