

I can't say enough good things about this brass. 45 Long Colt (.45 LC) (11.43×33mmR) cartridge, is a handgun cartridge dating to 1872. Every single Starline round I chamber tested also fit the cylinder perfectly with no locking up or scraping against the back of the cylinder. No loose bullets, no bent casings, not one single failure on seating. Then I switched to Starline instead and it was a different world! I set up the die, seated the bullet on the neck lightly (and it did NOT slip down inside the neck at all) then seated each round with a light roll crimp and 100 out of 100 rounds came out perfectly. I'd test the Winchester brass rounds in the chamber after loading and the head clearances were also wrong and would bind up the cylinder. When I'd finally seat the bullet (using too much roll crimp because the neck was too big) then the bullets were loose in the cartridge and would spin easily when twisted with fingers. Too bad the company stopped production two years ago, but you can still find one if you check out our list below.I was using Winchester 45 LC brass for reloading and the neck clearances were too big for the bullet so that the bullets would actually keep slipping down inside the brass when I'd try to seat it. 430 bore so finding a bullet that works well and dies that can handle the larger projectile has been a challenge. It is my favorite firearm and is by far the one i shoot the most. Most factory ammo is loaded to the older firearms limits. Miroku) Winchester 1873 with pistol grip and 24' octagonal barrel in. These can be fired in rapid succession very easily because again, the Model 1894 is a lever-action. 45lc is an old reliable round and becoming more popular as the number of cowboy shooters increases. But out of the Marlin Model 1894, shooting be a real pleasurable experience.Īnd if a single round somehow isn't enough for whatever purpose you may have, the Model 1894 comes with a magazine capacity of 9 or 10 rounds depending on the cartridge it's chambered for. Out of a Ruger Super Redhawk, the same Deer Grenade load has quite the kick which recoil-shy folks find intolerable. The aforementioned Deer Grenade load utilizes a 260-grain medium-cast gas-checked lead hollow point bullet which can be propelled out of the Marlin Model 1894's 20-inch barrel with a velocity of around 1,890 feet per second, generating muzzle energy of around 2,063 foot-pounds of force, more than enough to take from a hundred yards away. stuff like the +P Deer Grenade load Buffalo Bore sells. They are two of the most popular revolver cartridges of all time, and today Brownells Gun Tech Steve Ostrem does a quick compare-and-contrast of the. A significant number of shooters have trouble handling the recoil of full-house.

Lightweight, easy to maneuver, easy to shoot well, and with more than enough barrel length to maximize the ballistic capabilities of any big bore revolver cartridge, the Model 1894 is as good as any modern lever-action rifle despite the fact that its earliest version was introduced by Marlin in 1894.īut if there's one really good thing about this rifle, it's that it makes recoil a non-issue.

The only real weakness of the lever-action design is that it uses a tubular magazine which shouldn't be loaded with ammo that uses pointed bullets. 44 Magnum and you want a rifle for chambered for the exact same caliber, your best bet is a lever-actionīy its very design, a lever-action shoots faster than its bolt-action and break-action rifle counterparts, which make it suitable for both home defense and hunting.
