BFR 45-70 load range

98 220 swift

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What 45-70 loads(trapdoor or lever action) loads are safe for the BFR? Cant find any info on how stout of a load it can handle.
 
The BFR in 45-70 will handle any load you can buy ?? Maybe more than you can handle ??
google it or go to MR web site .
 
Pretty sure it will take whatever loads you feel like YOU can handle. I don't think the gun will be the weak link.......
 
well IIRC, BFRs are made for MR by Pinetree Castings, which is owned by Sturm Ruger Co. IIRC, and Rugers are plenty strong guns.
 
I shoot two 45-70 b.f.r.'s with regularity. I can say from personal experience that the handgun will withstand more than modern brass. I've chron'd over 2,000 f.p.s. With 405 grain weight slugs from a 7 1/2 inch barrel. Its one of the few firearms I own in which I place full confidence. Anything goes.
 
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