
So, then, I took out my Savage 110, a standard .30-06 hunting rifle. It's my favorite and it likes 165 grain Sierra Gameking bullets and the standard Garand load of 47.0 grains of 4895. Once again, a flyer ruined a nice little group.

I might have been flinching., Before I started with the scoped rifles, I tried out a new load in the Handi-rifle. I went to the Hodgdon website and looked up cast bullet loads, found a load for the .45-70 of 45.6 grains of IMR 4895. I used a 405 grain, soft lead bullet. It's listed as a starting load, suitable for trapdoor rifles, but when I touched the first one off, just damn! Four more and I was finished with that rifle, much preferring to shoot the .30-06. The Hogdgon website says that the load should be running about 1500 fps, and that may be wo, but it was throwing pieces of berm 15 feet into the air. That may be a starting load, but shot from that lightweight Handi-rifle, it was quite a handful. I'll need to make an appointment at the dentist, simply to see if my fillings were jarred loose in the recoil.
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