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January 8, 2025
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I will preface this by saying that my range is my back yard, however setting everything up, shooting, adjusting sights and what have you, the wife was still upset when I came back to the house. Point being, you can’t win with a woman, so be happy with your guns.
I recently purchased a 2000s Miroukoo 1886 in 45-70 that I needed to shoot. Last winter I bought a 1950 ’94 in 25-35 that I installed a Lyman 66 receiver sight on. My Savage 17HMR needed dialed back in, and the Savage 99E I bought last fall, I’d never confirmed zero on. Also a Sauer SAA 22 Mag that needed some work, that turned into buying a parts pistol, then since I had all the parts, buying another broken one, that I repaired with leftovers, so I had a second in 22LR.
Targets were at 30 yds and 130 yds.
30Yd Target 1886 45-70
130 Yd Target 1886 45-70
30 Yd Target 1886 45-70 Subs
It would be nice if someone could tell me how to use a Full Buckhorn Sight. I’m not sure if I’m right, even after googling instructions. With both sight pictures, I used a 6 O’clock hold. At the 130 yd targets I also had a 12″x17″ plate and an 8″x6″. I hit the small yellow plate 3 out of 4 with the Hornady. After shooting the subs on paper, I just shot the 12×17 for a good gong ring.
45-70 Factory Ammo Used
130 Yd Targets
January 20, 2023
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I don’t have any advice to offer on full buckhorn iron sights because I can’t use them, except to say they might make an interesting decoration resting among the colorful rocks of a goldfish bowl.
I am curious how the FTX rounds cycled and chambered in your Winchester 1886. And was the recoil mild enough for a young or beginning shooter.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
January 8, 2025
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I shot the entire box of the lever evolution ftx bullets. I was using a lead sled on the table. The recoil was less than my 20ga 3” slugs in a bolt action savage 220. I’ll have to do some off hand shooting to tell you for sure. I didn’t have any weight on the lead sled, it’s a good rest for zeroing, friction from the feet on the rug and table do reduce your felt recoil. I’ll better answer your question next time I shoot it. The subsonic rounds I still used the lead sled so I could get a good POI shift. I still hit the large 130 yd steel plate with the same hold. Need to put more rounds on paper. I have a really good start though, inside 100 yds I know I’m good.
January 20, 2023
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Anything you hit in the high lung area with that round is not going to travel very far afterward.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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