Sir Dennis,
My 55"-long Jet Sled got some use.
Nice size for a doe. Don't you think ?

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Sir Larry,
Weird exit wound.
One broad rib exposed in center of 3"-wide oval of missing hide.
One rib rearward had a chip off its edge adjacent to the hole.
The lungs were a bloody mess.
Suggests a doe is pretty narrow chested and the petals had not spread out much by the time the bullet base and all petals
passed out the offside hide, between the ribs,
except one petal or the bullet base grazed/chipped a rib ?
The clean hole suggests a 'possum chewed the edges of the exit wound,
maybe got scared off the carcass by me returning early AM.
Tender, succulent venison.
I have made three meals of the meat already.
'Possum got merely a nibble. I got the rest.

Got rained out today and probably tomorrow.
I shall be gunning for more meat, Lord willing and the creeks don't rise, and the holiday, etc.

I have a new CVA Scout in .45-70 Gov't.
Bob Mitchell pioneered the .45-70 Long Throat on a Ruger No. 1.
He could shoot 500-grainers at 2200 fps with that, pressure tested sub 60K psi by Western Powders lab.

There is another cartridge called the .45-70 Elko Magnum, a CIP homologation of the 1990s.
I discovered that after I re-created the wheel with a .45-2.6" Sharps Winchester Throated, my reamer name (from Dave Manson) was ".45-100 SWT."
Ruger No.1 X2 for those, a 22" light barrel (1:20" twist) and a 28" heavy barrel (1:18" twist).

The CVA Scout is factory-marked simply ".45-70" so it will be easy to add "Elko Magnum" to the barrel.
This brings honesty.
The .45-70 EM came before the .45-2.6" SWT.
I can no longer copycat without giving Mr. Elko his due.
It would be akin to stolen valor.

The "70" means 70 grains of smokeless powder in the .45-70 Elko Magnum, versus 70 grains of BP in the .45-70 Government.
Whatever the .458 WM+ can do, the .45-70 EM can do, despite the 0.100" longer COL.
No problem in the single-shot rifle, of course.

Ron aka "Rip" for Riflecrank Internationale Permanente
NRA Life Benefactor and Beneficiary
.458 Winchester Magnum, Magnanimous in Victory
THE WALKING DEAD does so remind me of Democrap voters. Donkeypox.