Ho the fire,
Hold the whiskey and listen up!
I've been loading 45-70 ammo, and now I have enough for a season and a half. I do it like this. I take a piece of clean brass, prime it with a RCBS hand primer. After a bowl full of brass, I mark a piece with an chamber orientation mark and put some PL-II lube on the brass. Then, I size and bell the brass. Next, with the use of a 3' brass trumpet/drop tube, I drop in 4.3cc of black powder. Then, I press in (with my thumb) a .460 1/8" Circle Fly Nitro card and compress it along with the black powder enough to thumb seat my DD-45-70 500 grain lube sized boolit and then give it a slight pocket safe crimp. Next, I seat and lightly crimp the said boolit.
Ok, that's worked for me so far. But my question is this. . . The 4.3cc dipper, well shaken, drops 64 grains of Old Einsford 1½Fg powder. The same exact measure of Swiss 1½ weighs 70 grains.
So, is my 45-70 a true 45-70, or is it a 45-64?
Is the Swiss more dense, or am I?
DD-MDA