Posted on 06/05/2019 5:14:46 AM PDT by w1n1
Are you into old buffalo cartridge and want to make it better?
Do this, load it up with smokeless powder in a lever action rifle. You will surely have some fire power with a .50-110 caliber rifle. Which means lots of fun shooting and yes you can take down some game as well.
We can't say this enough, loading this cartridge with smokeless powder makes this lever action rifle a hard hitter that can punch holes in steel and obliterate other targets.
The 450 grain .50-110 caliber can create more energy than the 458 Winchester Magnum. This cartridge is good to have on hunting trips and expect encounters with larger tough dangerous animals like brown/grizzly bear.
This cartridge was even mentioned in Craig Boddington’s book The Perfect Shot North America.
"…He went on a voyage to Antarctica, and at one point they put in at one of the earliest explorers’ camps, finding many of the supplies still intact. Among the gear was a huge quantity of century-old ammunition, including a large quantity of .50-110 ammo, a big more, black-powder cartridge chambered to the 1886 Winchester. Why? Because early visitors to Antarctica fully expected to run into polar bear or similar big beasties." Read the rest of 50-110 smokeless powder.
Once again, the writing in this article is truly atrocious.
Always good for a chuckle. Or a head shake.
“a big more”?
Don’t care, 50 cal, 450 gr bullets, more power than a 458 mag. I want one.
I know you post this a lot. If you are the owner of this blog, learn to structure and punctuate a sentence. If you know the blogger, suggest he do the same. People will refuse to take you seriously if you cannot string together a sentence or two.
CC
The 1886 was Browning’s first lever action. That loading sounds a bit much tho. The .348 Winchester would do just fine for me.
Kicks like a mule, how accurate at 100 yds plus?
Great idea for in close but not a scope style gun .
Good for home defense? Likely go through an engine block.
Everyone should start hitting Abuse on these posts. I tried and was apparently ignored. Same goes for all the other bots.
Firing one of these things is gotta hurt …….
Notice the curved steel butt plate. That has got to be a painful thing to shoot.
It’s astonishing, really. I’d be ashamed to publish that.
IIRC, the buttplate is placed not against the shoulder but in the crook of the arm next to the shoulder.
Someone makes a leather pad which covers those `horns’ and creates a flat butt surface.
Don’t never, ever load any cartridge with any load that didn’t come from an industry loading manual. Using load data that comes from some dumbass blog pimp could have unexpected results.
Conversely, be aware that sharing unpublished load data on the internet might be something to be done with discretion.
The original YouTube video was published on May 6, one day short of a month ago. This is typical for American Shooting Journal. They like to make posts off of someone else’s less recent content for the ad revenue.
Putting smokeless powder in cartridges designed for black powder is chancy at best. Using such cartridges in the rifles designed for black powder is insane. The writer and poster of this article are fools, at best. Doing this can maim, blind and/or kill you.
This is beyond foolish.
Just off the top of my head, .30-30 and .38 special were both originally black powder cartridges. Lots of these are loaded with smokeless powder and sold every year.
IIRC, Bigmore was the lesser-known equivalent to Creedmore, but limited to "big" cartridges (those over 45 caliber)...
I’d shoot it, but only with real Black Powder.
Yes the 86 action is plenty strong.
Winchester changed their steel around 1895 to handle smokeless powder. I think the 30-30 was the first smokeless powder cartridge.
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