Quote Originally Posted by Art View Post
. . . . .I had a friend who had a 45-70 load for a modern Marlin 1895 and he was driving his handloaded 350 gr. bullets at 2,100 fps and was well within the manual's safe zone.
You just reminded me of this . . . . .
Once knew a guy that bought one of these ?new? Marlin M95?s in 45/70 . . . .
He made up some ?blue pill? loads that were so hot, that the receiver had driven itself about 1/8? to the rear, INTO the butt stock!

Really . . .the stock sort of ?oozed? around the rear of the receiver!!

When he very proudly showed me his rifle, I asked . . . .
?Bill . . . .did you shoot this from your shoulder, or braced against a tree??

It was a great testament to the strength of the Marlin!