Saturday - May 16, 2009

Got Enough Gun?

The Bison Bull is a .45-70 Gov’t six-shot, single-action revolver proudly made in the U.S.A. This hearty fistful hearkens back to those thrilling days of yesteryear when great herds of American Bison freely roamed across the prairies and plains of the Old West. Sporting a 10” octagonal, custom Badger barrel and fully-adjustable, renowned Millett rear sights, the “Bison Bull” also has integral scope mounts which allows it to be readily scoped for long-distance hunting. The frame is manganese bronze while the cylinder and barrel are of 4140 chrome-moly steel. All-American materials assure the highest quality, exceptional reliability, and unerring accuracy. The “Bison Bull” is so well made that it carries a lifetime guarantee. Contact: Super Six Classic, LLC, 635 Hilltop Trail W., Ft. Atkinson, WI 53538, (816) 361-4656, Fax: (920) 568-8259, Web Site: http://www.BisonBull.com E-Mail: sales@bisonbull.com.

MSRP: $1,495.00

Materials
Frame: Manganese Bronze.
Cylinder: 4140 Chrome-Moly Steel.
Barrel: 4140 Chrome-Mily Steel; six lands and grooves; 1 turn in 18” twist rate. Hammer, Trigger, Front Sight Base: Manganese Bronze.
Grip Panels: Deluxe custom exotic hardwood.

Features
10” octagonal, custom barrel.
Overall Length: 17 ½”
Weight: 6.0 lbs.
Manual Cross-Bolt Safety.
Renowned Millett Rear Sight; Fully Adjustable.
Ramp Blade Front Sight.
Integral Scope Mount.

Badger is a top notch custom barrel maker. They are superbly accurate and well made barrels.

Another company, Magnum Research, makes a similar pistol. Theirs is called the BFR which stands for Big Fat (yeah right) Biggest Finest Revolver. [uh huh, and when calling B-52s “BUFF"s the “FF” means Fabulous Flier, right?] It costs a bit less, and weighs over a pound less.

Factory .45-70 ammunition is available everywhere. Although the cartridge is over 135 years old at this point, it is still a very popular hunting round. The bullets are huge, ranging from 300 grains to well over 530 grains, which is an ounce and a quarter of lead. Factory ammo is loaded to extremely low pressure so that it is safe to shoot in the old antique black powder rifles, but it still manages to propel a 300 grain bullet at about 1800 feet per second. And that matches the very best performance you will get from any of today’s super pistol cartridges - the .460 magnums, the .500 S&W, the .454 Casull. All of which operate at 3 times the pressure. From deer to the largest polar bears, there is no animal on the American continent that this cartridge can’t handle.

At 6 lbs, the Bison Bull pistol weighs almost as much as the popular Marlin 1895 rifle which fires the same cartridge, and costs about half as much. But that weight absorbs a whole lot of recoil, so the kick on this metal mule really isn’t all that bad. It just gives you hip dysplasia carrying it around in a holster!

I do not know if the Bison Bull or it’s older cousin the BFR can handle the hotter hand loaded .45-70 cartridges. I doubt it. In a stout rifle, hot rodded .45-70 rounds are nearly as potent as those in the .458 Winchester Magnum, which is one of the smaller elephant cartridges. So yeah, it’s enough gun. No matter what.

Posted by Drew458     on 05/16/2009 at 11:34 AM   
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