45-70 shot shells?

Anyone load these like a .410 ?

I have my 5.5 inch barrel BFR revolver and thought of this for casual plinking and maybe snake load while along my trails.
Would save me 500 bucks over buying a Bond Arms Snake Slayer...have a MUCH better trigger and 5 shots.
Yeah it's big and a bit heavy but you have the option of slipping in some beefy .45-70 rounds if you need them!

Sounds like a plan!

Those poor snakes.

Jimbo357mag said:

Those poor snakes.

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Snake soup!

Jimbo357mag said:

Those poor snakes.

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Only those poor little Copperheads! But those pesty 2 liter bottles would most likely catch the most of it!

Did you try this yet?
What size shot? I would think you could use 7 1/2?

Have not loaded any yet but will post up a video when I do.
I have some #8 shot from my old double barreled shotgun air rifle project so will try that.

A pic of that for those curious...

Well got five .45-70 loads of 275 gr. of #8 shot ready to test tomorrow in my 5.5 inch barrel BFR
revolver.
What I did was buy a box of Fiocchi .410 target loads which use 221 gr. #8 shot over 13 gr. of some kind of powder.

I took the shells apart...dumped the powder in my primed .45-70 brass then put a wad over top.
Took the plastic shot holder and cut of the plunger type end off and put the shot holder in with a sleeve around it to make a slide fit into the .45-70 case.
The sleeve was a short length of the .410 plastic shell with a slit cut along the side to compress to right fit.

Filled to within 3/16 of top of shell and then top with another wad.
Wad material is .035 thick fiber/cardboard gasket material.

The .410 shells were rated at 1250 FPS. We will see how they shoot. Anyone see any issues with the load?

DixieBoy said:

You ever fiddle around with any of the loads in the old books by Paul Matthews? (I think I got the name right)

- DixieBoy

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No I haven't done that.

I have not done any 45-70 but I do load 44 magnum shot shells.
Works pretty good for Grouse . If your close enough . To hot of a load will blow a hole in your pattern in a handgun.