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Bullet weight

The 50-70 was originally loaded with a 450 grain bullet. I have a copy of the original US army manual which states this. According to other sources a 425 or 430 grain bullet was used in the reduced load carbine ammunition with 50 grains of powder. These were intended for the converted .50-70 Sharps carbine.

Benvenuto 07:30, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can you add that army manual as a reference on the article? We don't seem to have much for this cartridge. Also, does the manual use the "official nomenclature" as listed in the article, because it's not listed that way in my texts. Arthurrh 17:08, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dead link

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

http://www.accuratepowder.com/data/PerCaliber2Guide/Rifle/ObsoleteCartridges/50%2070%20Government%20page%20366%20to%20367.pdf
- In .50-70 Government on 2011-05-20 21:37:52, 404 Not Found
- In 13 mm caliber on 2011-05-23 02:58:08, 404 Not Found
- In .50-70 Government on 2011-05-31 13:08:26, 404 Not Found

--JeffGBot (talk) 13:08, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

i managed to find the archive org link that worked BUT it needed the link to use escaped characters like percent 20 in the url ONLY — Preceding unsigned comment added by Waptek (talk • contribs) 01:29, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Rimshots

Is this round rimfire or centerfire? And is it the same as the .50RF? (If so, can somebody fix it here?) TREKphiler ^{any time you're ready, Uhura} 08:04, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's center fire. .50RF is another cartridge. --Markscheider (talk) 12:13, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I thought as much. Thx for the quick answer. TREKphiler ^{any time you're ready, Uhura} 00:37, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]