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Newer ones do.



Edited to add: Boy that sure is a big picture.

Before I ended up here I lived in northern Florida for 13 years. Never shot a gator, but they work just fine on deer. 😁

Congrats on your 45-70!

I've currently got mine set up with XS ghost ring sights.


A friend of mine from the UK enjoying some American style freedom,

I don't hunt in Florida, except for the errant hog or varmint that strays into the neighborhood. I do hunt lots of hogs and deer up at the lease in Georgia, but I am planning an eventual escape when I retire either to our place in PA and we are looking at property near Cour D' Alene. Lot of options for this neat rifle, but in the end, I guess I'm just another rifle nut.

C'mon out West...you'll be comfortably armed.

PA has got some good-sized bears, too.

Had a mountain lion/cougar/puma prowling my campsite in the Goat Rocks Wilderness in Washington last week. It was snarling and pissed off about something.

Had my SBL loaded with some 380gr Lehigh WFN in the tent and a .480Ruger SBH.......went back to sleep.

I've used mine on deer, black bear, and pig.

I've changed loads and sighting systems on this rifle more so than any other rifle I've owned. Low power fixed and variables, Williams FP, reflex sights, heavy hardcast, real heavy hardcast, and light jacketed bullets, all styles and weights that I tried were run at trapdoor pressure to max Marlin loads.

I've narrowed my preferences to either the Williams FP or a 1-4X20 variable. Loads I've come to like and trust are a 436 grain LBT at 1679 fps, and the Speer Unicor (Plinker) at 1900 fps. If forced to choose one setup, I'd go 1-4 variable and the cast bullet load, it'll shoot through anything on this side of the ocean.

Here it is with a Vortex Venom, a setup I felt ideally suited to close-in pig hunting.



Deer hunting with a 2.5X Ultralight, a damn good setup for this type of hunting though I've come to prefer the FOV and eyebox of a 1-4 VX-2.



Right now it has the Williams FP on it. That system has some compromises, but the rifle is relatively light in the hands with that setup, the tradeoff for the time you gain with a scope.

436gr. You've got the "biggies for the piggies"!

Liking the furniture.

My biggest are 420s at 1700fps for undocumented Canadian bears within a mile or two of the Washington/B.C border.

I tried some 536s at 1550 fps. Somewhere out there is a bullet still plowing through crap. God those things penetrate!

I think the trajectory of the 436s gave it an advantage in all-around usefulness.

I did try some CastPerformance 420s, they shot pretty good. I am not quite on board with their "dry" lube. Afraid it will lead the bore.

Thanks for the compliment on the furniture. That's a set of plain Brockman's Rifles stocks, very good design that favors scopes and really makes a difference in felt recoil.

I'm suspecting you had full penetration with those 420s at that speed.

nice rig!

MontanaMarine, those XSs really clean up the lines of the rifle compared to a Williams FP. I have given them much consideration, and I must say they do preserve the looks of your rifle.

Though completely functional, the FP on my rifle kinda reminds me of a wart on a pretty girl. Not so with the XS.

The XS are a clean look.

When I installed them, the front sight was taller, and I had to run the rear sight up a good ways to get zero'd. It looked kind of odd. So I carefully filed down the front sight and hit it with one of those bluing touch-up pens. Got the rear sight almost at the bottom. Left a little bit of 'down' in case it might be needed for another load.

The big ghost ring is fast, and it's not bad for accuracy, 3" or so at 100 yards. I set it up to be more of a defensive gun for bears etc, so I wanted it fairly light and quick to aim. Great setup for that.

I did shoot it initially with a Leupold 1.5-5x20, on a Warne 20 moa rail. Very nice setup as well.

The Warne rail is steel, and adds some weight. The reason I chose it, was that it would allow me to mount the scope far enough forward, to keep the hammer easily accessible. With the generous eye-relief of that scope, it worked well.

Want to add a GBL and 1895G to the collection.

C'mon Ruger!

Springtime?

Good looking rifle, and everything has a purpose

Woody (FlyBoyFlem) cast some 425gr bullets and this is the first group using 37gr of IMR4198 @1740 fps. 100 yds w a Leupold (the horror) 4X. I welcome any other loads you guys might have.

Nice. I sold my first year Guide Gun to Roger here after I bought my Browning M71 Carbine.

Slicked up cowboy 45-70 with Wild West trigger and action job.

DF

I sorta liked this look, but eyeballs said so with glass.

DF

I had a gunsmith add holes on the side of my 45-70 and mounted steel Lyman aperture sight on it.