Daryl,
I'll have to have a look for the Hodgdon manual as I am thoroughly enjoying loading and messing around with the Baikal, so much so that I'm buying one in 30-06 today to use as a cast bullet gun as well. The nice thing about the 1300 fps cast load in the 45/70 is its easy on the ears, shoulder and pocketbook and shoots both barrels into 1.5-2 inches regularly at 60 yds.