Mithras61 wrote:What about some of these for ammo?
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Mithras61,
You have gotten some good advice about taking care of your new
acquisition, and some reasonable cautions about loads.
In addition, Speer maintains that you need to keep your loads below
21,000 PSI to be safe in the "M1873 Trapdoor Springfields, and modern
replicas, original 1874 Sharps, and all rolling block actions".
They provide a number of smokeless powder loads that do just that.
You do not need to go black powder only as long as the smokeless
load is below the 21,000 PSI limit.
I have a list of loads for Speer bullet #2482, 300 Gr. UCHP which
includes smokeless loads at all three power levels. They have since
included this data in their loading manual #14 and no longer have it
on their web site.
If you would like me to pass along some of these PM me. If you reload
you can safely load smokeless powder for your very fine looking antique.
BTW - the top loads in .45-70 can get up to 35,000 PSI and the middle
range loads max out at 28,000 PSI. So you are way down the curve at a
mere 21,000 PSI.
Kind Regards,
Tom