Revisitting the .40-70

[Kurt]

Bob,

Yes the brass is a problem for the .40-2.5 ss. I used the .30-40,Hornady.405,and the Bertram.
The.405 brass is ideal for the pp bullet but again for my rifle the .405 brass I needed to trim the head stamp down and make a base swage die to fit my chamber. Since I got my rifle I think Kirk must have opened the base a little because now the Hornady brass will slide in without having to swage the base down after full length sizing on a newer rifle than mine is.
I'm still using my .30-40 brass I got in 1999 lost a few from loading errors and a couple pulled the necks off from annealing them to soft.
When I first got the rifle I thought it was a little finicky, but after I got away from the using just one bullet or powder type that shoots in one rifle should shoot in this sort of thinking we came to an understanding and we got along very well since that point.