Man, I come over here thinking this is the "professional's choice" website where the most learned come to exchange ideas and what do I run into?
Another neophyte trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, with that ridiculous pumkin roller, replete with meaningless stats, stacks of wet newspaper and zero experience.
There are some very smart and experienced people that covered in excruciating detail the shortcomings of the 45/70, yet some just use selective reading. Hell, as jpk stated, you can even use a 22 to take an elephant and yes we are all aware that Garrett took the Big Five with it, but so what? Fred Bear did it with a bow also. You know, you can lead people to knowledge but you can't make them learn. jorge