45/70 For African Big Game
By Ammoland
By Major Van Harl
Wisconsin –-(
Allen Quatermain Quatermain in the books and movies is English and travels between Africa and England. Swayze’s portrayal of Quatermain has the African hunter as an American who travels between Africa and England. What is more notable about Swayze’s version of Allen Quatermain, is Swayze carries a lever action 1870s American made rifle and wears a ammunition belt (brown) full of big, old black powder, straight walled cartridges. Sometimes we forget that American made lever actions rifles were sold all over (Henry Arms being the first one) the world and not just John Wayne hunted and stopped evil with a lever gun.
The 45/70 cartridge has been in continuous use in this country since 1873. It was originally a black powder cartridge that was chambered in rather weak single shot rifles. It could stop anything in North America but because of its low …Read the Rest
Source:: AmmoLand
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