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Too for collecting Pine Cones Specimens from the Long Leaf Pine for training Youth for Forestry Competition, that 1st limb is waaaay up there & the 45-70 is the perfekt kalibre to sever the cone from the limb..... Indispensable Tool.....
Hochachtungsvoll,
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rse Beware that the range of the generic, .45-70 is at least 3700 yards. Otherwise, it's a great way to trim branches and I used to do it all the time with a .22 when I was a kid and lived in a place where that was safe.
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I’ve never met anybody who hunts squirrels with a 45-70 Government. Best,
Ted Me, either. I assumed Raimey meant that the lower and smaller caliber barrel might have been used. I have hunted them considerably with my .32 cal. roundball long rifle. Head shots only. Great fun. I did once shoot a barn pigeon off the ridge cap of an equipment shed with a .45-70. I recall seeing an object separate from the centered pigeon and watched it fall to the ground. I walked over and looked at it and found it was the pigeons heart, arteries and veins severed perfectly, and totally intact. One of those things that "jes' make a man shake he haid". . . . . as Roger Pinckney was fond of saying.
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Even if that was the case, a guy would be dragging not one, but, two 45-70 rifles along on his squirrel hunt.
Who does that?
I can picture needing a .32 rifle of some sort. I can picture needing a 45-70 rifle. I can’t really picture needing both, much less two 45-70 barrels with the small round, on the same trip.
Most Europeans would have been prohibited from a rifle that featured a government loading, which, the 45-70 is. I couldn’t understand that thinking 30 years ago, when I was actively importing guns from Europe, and while I suspect things may have changed, it was a thing even then.
How did they get around it, in this case?
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Most Europeans would have been prohibited from a rifle that featured a government loading, which, the 45-70 is. Totally untrue.
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Most Europeans would have been prohibited from a rifle that featured a government loading, which, the 45-70 is. Totally untrue. The French guys couldn’t, anyway. I was told a few other countries limited calibers that people could own, or, number of firearms people could own. Do share with us the correct rifle caliber limitations that Europeans s̶u̶f̶f̶e̶r̶ enjoy. Best, Ted
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I would look closely at some of the Euro laws that prevent military cartridges I think they have lists of objectionable cartridges. The 45-70 was basically an American cartridge for a short time. The 22lr was a US military cartridge, I trained with my one in the service and I believe used by tunnel rats in Vietnam.
After the first shot the rest are just noise.
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"They" certainly don't.
France once had a law from 1939.
Italy also did.
Both have long been changed.
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