Another rifle bits the dust using smokeless

[Kurt]

I don't know any of the details other then what is written above. With the S lever and what is left of the frame it looks like a low wall the way the action curves down ahead of the tang sight to me.
But what ever he is one fortunate feller to have made it with out a scratch.
I'm not familiar with 5744 in a .45-70 so I looked it up and like March said 50 gr is about 20 gr over the top. If it was a 74 Sharps I think the action would have made it. I have looked at a Shiloh that was blown by a guy that thought that a full case of Bulls eye was black powder because the color of bulls eye was black. The action held but the barrel split front to back.