** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** The .45-70 Gov’t cartridge is a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The life span of rifle cartridges is hard to predict because shooters have the fickle habit of tossing them asunder at one stage ...

The 30-30 became available in 1895 in Winchester’s Model 1894 lever-action rifle. It was America’s first sporting cartridge to be loaded with smokeless powder, and it was originally loaded with a ...

It’s hard to imagine the .45-70 Government as a brand-new round, untested and unproven either on big game or in battle. But that was the situation back in 1873, when it was introduced. That was a long ...

The .45-70 is one of those cartridges people talk about like it has a personality. It’s “thumper” this and “hammer” that, and you’ll hear guys act like owning one automatically puts them in some ...

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This column, “Rebirth of the .45/70,” appeared in the September 1972 issue of Outdoor Life. The life span of rifle cartridges is hard to predict because shooters have the fickle habit of tossing them ...