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Loaded up 5 test rounds for my Henry 45-70, 500 grain HC with 31.3 grains of LT-32 COL: 2.500 compared to my normal 350 grain loads.

Talk about a howitzer! What kind of velocity will you be getting with those?

Should be around 1300 fps at 27000 pressure

That would take any thing that walks on this continent. Impressive.

Try some of these 500 gr. bombs!

Who makes them and it looks like they will get the job done.

Handloader wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 26, 2024 7:35 am

Who makes them and it looks like they will get the job done.

Black Butterfly makes these rounds but as of now I do not know who makes the bullet itself. Bought a box to try and do like how they shoot! Not a bad idea to keep some handy and they are a great round to have for the little Mules Leg lever shooter being easy to control!

My FFL gave me a box of 50 of them and he got them from https://www.rmrbullets.com/

Range day today shooting the 500 grain HC rounds. I made 5 additional ones using 31 grains of H4895 for trap door. What really surprised me was both were relatively tame when it came to recoil. I was expecting more of a recoil. My 350 grain HC rounds loaded with 55 grains of H4895 had way more recoil than the 500 grain rounds. 10 rounds down range.

I liked them so much I loaded 40 more.