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The .45-70 is a long-range caliber, and accurate use requires knowledge of windage and elevation by minute of angle and a sense for estimating distance in these calculations. The .45-70 retains great popularity among American hunters, and is still offered by several commercial ammunition manufacturers.
According to the US Army Ordnance Department tests, the 45-70-405 was loaded to 19,000 psi, [4] while the 45-70-500 was loaded to 25,000 psi [2] The average accuracy of the Springfield Model 1873 was a circle with an average radius of 1.7 inches at 100 yards, corresponding to an ~3.4 MOA.
Common rifle cartridges, from the largest .50 BMG to the smallest .22 Long Rifle with a $1 United States dollar bill in the background as a reference point.. This is a table of selected pistol/submachine gun and rifle/machine gun cartridges by common name.
.45 Colt.45-70 Government.45-90 Sharps.45-70 Auto; 45 Raptor.450 Bushmaster.450 Black Powder Express.450/400 Black Powder Express.450/400 Nitro Express.500/450 Magnum Black Powder Express.450 Marlin.450 Nitro Express.500/450 No 1 Black Powder Express.450 No 2 Nitro Express.454 Casull.500/450 Nitro Express.450 Rigby.450 Dakota.450 Watts Magnum
However, if you can judge the range well, or have known range markers, you can hit things at incredible distances with the .45-70, and the massive bullet (by today's standards) will do an amazing amount of damage--see the Sany Hook test article to read what a .45-70-500 will do at a range of 2 miles.
The Rolling Block was also one of two makers rifles used by the American team to win the International Long Range matches held at Creedmoor Rifle Range on Long Island, New York, in 1874. Team members shot against the Irish team with half the shooters using Rolling Block Creedmoor models, and the other half using Sharps Model 1874 Long Range rifles.
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A range table was a list of angles of elevation a particular artillery gun barrel ... 45 240 7·1 420 9·6 550 11·6 660 ... 70 138 9·2 259 12·6 339 15·3 ...