Hightlights:
Barrel Type Octagon Blued Steel
Receiver Finish Polished Hardened Brass
Rear Sight Fully Adj. Semi-Buckhorn w/ Diamond Insert
Scopeability Drilled and Tapped
Scope Mount Type Weaver 63B
Stock Material American Walnut
From its origins on 19th-century battlefields to its contemporary presence in hunting camps nationwide, the .45-70 Government cartridge can handle even the largest game in North America.
Introduced by the US Army in 1873 as the .45 Government, the cartridge soon leaped the commercial market as the .45-70. Aptly named for its .45 caliber projectile, loaded with 70 grains of black powder, nearly all late 19th and early 20th-century firearms manufacturers chambered their rifles for the .45-70.