Thread: Goat: Plentiful, Tasty but often Stringy

Heh. One cartridge to rule them all. On the left is the good, old, accurate and reliable .22 Winchester subsonic. I've shot heaps of stuff with those. In the middle is the handloaded .357 magnum with the 200 grain Lee bullet... which is yet to be tested on game, although I'm confident that it will work because the 158 grain cast bullets I've used are fine. On the right is the cartridge I aspire to, the great 45-70 Government... although I would probably use cast bullets. The question is what rifle should I get to shoot those danged big bullets? And how effective would any efforts at suppressing be? A lever gun would be nice, but I'd lose a lot of brass. Something like an Uberti or Ruger No 1 would be aesthetically pleasing, but it wouldn't seem right to fit a suppressor to such nice firearms. The Bergara BA13 would be a good choice for a suppressed rig, but I wouldn't get that 'I'm going out on a hot date' feeling that the Ruger or Uberti might give me......