Posted March 22, 2016 12:33 am by Comments

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Henry All Weather 45/70 Rifle ~ Review by Major Van Harl

By Major Van Harl
Henry All Weather 45/70 Rifle Review

Henry All Weather 45/70 Rifle
Major Van Harl USAF Ret
Major Van Harl USAF Ret

United States -(AmmoLand.com)- How good of a performer do you think you will be when you are hit 143 years old? Are you still going to be able to stay on target? Do you think you will manage to be a fairly flat shooter or will your efforts perhaps, be described like that of a rainbow effect?

If you are like the venerable 45/70 Government rifle cartridge that started serving our nation’s military in 1873 and is still capable of stopping anything in North American, you will do just fine.

There were a few short lived, self-contained cartridges that were used by the US military, but when the 45/70 came on line it ruled the plains of the west, well into the late 1890s. It is an old black powder cartridge designed for a very weak single shot rifle.

However, with today’s modern steel and smokeless rifle powders, there is nothing on earth (dry land of course) that you cannot successfully hunt with a current production Henry All Weather 45/70 Rifle chambered in …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand

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