Look up Doc Holiday over on http://www.marlinowners.com/forum/ and ask what he has made. They also have a number of tests of his bullets over there and stack up well against the Beartooth bullets.Arktikos wrote:I may have to order some of those 535's. I'd love to do some tests comparing those with my 525 Beartooths into 20" of spruce tree! Would like to recover some of each and see what sort of shape they are in which could say a lot about if Tombstone has a good bullet thats hard but not too brittle. I've been ordering from Beartooth and am very satisfied with them except it takes a long time to get them whereas my Tombstone 350gr order was here pronto..
Yesterday I went to a small Gun and Archery store a couple of blocks from me to pick up some case lube and they had a 1 lb jug of Accurate Powder 5744 which a lot seem to like in the 45-70 so I got it and 1000 each of Large Pistol, Small Pistol and Large Rifle primers which they also had. Pistols where both Winchester but rifle was CCI. So went in figuring on leaving spending about $10 and left spending about $130 however at this time got to get it as it is available. Primers and powder have been hard to find lately around here and as is the prices have gone up about 10% from the last ones I got.
I would love to try some of Ranch Dogs also however Carolina Bullet doesn't list his 45-70 bullets if he made them. I did get his 45 Colt 290 gr though from CB.