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Sorry if you took it wrong, but as said above, everytime someone says the 45/70 can take big animals all hell brakes loose.

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No normally the stirrer trolls insert words such as "easily", "perfect", and especially "ideal". For example, "Is the .45/70 the ideal buffalo rifle".

Or stupid illogical concepts such as "penetration is increased if the velocity is decreased".

Of course a .45/70 can kill big game, I have said so many times, with a guy hunting cape buffalo with one, and testing it on a downed elephant when on a hunt one time in Africa.

But as for it being able to kill stuff such as water buffalo, well a mate shot his water buffalo mostly with a 6.5mm or a .270. Lots of cape buffalo have been shot with medium calibres as have elephant.

And this is where the word "ideal" does have its place, shot under "ideal" circumstances.

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But back to topic, surely such a bullet is FAR superior in a lever action to these hard cast bullets? Safe in the magazine, can be driven at faster velocities rather than slower ones ie for the cast bullet not to break up, penetrate well, and allegedly cause a wider than calibre wound channel. I am yet to be convinced on the last one though.

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John aka NitroX

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