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have yet to see a deer run very far with both shoulders broke......Blake

i'd not call it runnin'. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

more like pushin'. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

In that case use a 12 gauge rifled barrel with 400 grain slug. Now you're going to say that since that is bigger/heavier than the 45-70 it will deflect less? Should I show you a picture of a branch with a half moon from the slug? Oh, and it DID deflect the slug...

I do a couple Georgia whitetail trips each year with a good friend. He shoots a Ruger #1 45/70 loaded hot as you dare for a #1. I use a Model 7 Remmie 7-08 for that thick southern cover. He drops them where they stand most of the time. The ones I hit make me walk 10 to 20 yards from where they are hit but they are just as dead.

Bang-floppin' deer ain't hard................

1) Placement
2) Bullet selection
3) Cartridge selection

There,you now have a clue,regarding order of importance,as per dealing death.

Thank me later.....................

I guess if the 45/70 is so great then, I wanna know how many people would choose it over the 7mm08 for billy goats......for me it would be the 7mm........no thinkin that one.

Within the range I can shoot it well, I have found no better deer hunting caliber than the 45-70. It's a sure-killin', blood-trailin' mo fo. It gets a bit iffy for me past 150 yards or so, but it ain't cause the gun lacks for whomp. I usually don't load it as hot as the thread starter describes though. I usually keep my 300 grainers around 1900 fips and my 400s around 1500. Did jack some 350 Hornadys up around 2000 for an elk hunt but didn't get a chance to try it on elk. Did try it on deer though. Big hole in through the left front shoulder and a big hole out just in front of the right ham. Everything in-between was just the awefullest smellin' goo. Gotta watch them angles better.

I would imagine that the 45-70 would make some darn big holes in stuff!!

Not just in, but through.

Hit-'em in the chest with anything legal and they're gonna run a bit. They're dead but don't know it. 45-70 just makes it easier to find 'em in the puckerbrush. Heck, I've had as many twang-flops with stick and string as bang-flops with any rifle.

This had to be one of the best posts I've read in a while.....if only for "Stick-isms"......too funny..and so right...

I'll take my 7-08 thanks...