The .45-70 IS the .45 Govt, or .45-70 Govt. It is an 1873 cartridge that consists of a 500 grain flat based soft lead slug over 70 grains of compressed black powder. It launches the 500 grain slug at about 1700 fps, and was designed for, and will shoot through a horse at 600 yards from an original gun. Modern rifles with smokeless powder have slightly higher velocities but with lighter copper jacketed bullets still approximate the same energies as the original Black Powder loads.
If you do your homework you will find that there have been more Grizzlys killed with a .30-06, than with all other calibers combined.
More of aobut everything killed with 30-06.
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Modern rifles with smokeless powder have slightly higher velocities but with lighter copper jacketed bullets still approximate the same energies as the original Black Powder loads.
Sorry, but I'm gonna have to call BS on that one. You might want to check out a real source so as to have some clue as to what you're talking about next time. Garrett's 500-gr smokeless loads are about the maximum safe and possible with modern rifles like the Marlins and send the 500-gr bullet out at around 1530 fps; that same cartridge would fit in a nineteenth-century rifle, original or replica either one, but would blow that rifle apart the instant you pulled the trigger. The black powder version of the cartridge doesn't come close to the power of the modern versions.