This is my budget .45-70 I bought new for $ 200 prolly 35 years ago, it shoots straight and it’s robust as heck and is a hand- held cannon to me, I had a scope on it but took it off because I felt it wasn’t needed around here because as far as deer hunting goes a hundred yard shot is about all your gonna get because of the lack of flat land. I don’t hunt but I let my buddies hunt with it and split the meat with me and they always get a couple, so much I have enough to mix with my dogs food for a few months usually. I don’t hunt but I know guns and ammo and I feel the fast bullits like 300 fps just makes hamburger out of a lot of it and bits of jacket in it I’ve seen it but a big slow round like a .45-70 my buddies say it’s like hitting them with half a brick going 500 mph and they just drop like the earth disappeared beneath them. It’s a NEF Handi-Rifle and about the only ones you’ll find anymore will be on GunBroker . con it’s some of the best money I’ve ever spent on a rifle and like I always say don’t spend an extra few hundred bucks on a name because you don’t have to, and that 500 gr. slug will crash right through a windshield or anything else with ease and it’s still one of the most popular bear calibers because people in places like Alaska never got rid of theirs for a . 450 Marlin because the .45-70 always worked.
I own a 45/70 and it shoots very nice. A cannon with surprisingly acceptable recoil, I have a scope on it, I keep it around for T-Rex’s, when they come back, zombies, and any enemies of these United states. It offends members of the National Democratic Socialist Party (NDSP), so it must be a good thing.
T-Rex, zombies and enemies of the United States I can believe but NDSP That’s a stretch.
A relative had a Ruger #1 in .45-70. He got rid of it. He said he just wasn’t man enough to handle the .45-70 in such a light rifle.
I would love to have a Ruger #1 , and as small as I am I can handle the recoil it’s not as bad as a 12 ga. It’s a solid kinda recoil don’t know how to splain it but it’s different than a 12 ga. Maybe because it’s a rifle kick but IDK but it don’t bother me and it didn’t when I weighed 135 lbs either
I had to ask a guy who knows a guy who’s actually a good friend that collects and a licensed seller because that looked familiar. He got back to me with two rifles. A CVA Scout 45-70 Government Matte Black Break Action Rifle - 25in that looks pretty close to yours and also a Henry X Model 45-70 Government Blued Lever Action Rifle - 19.8in. Told me it’s about a grand for the level action and roughly 300 something now for the scout. Not a thing for me but had to look up the round, that’s a beefy little booger.
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I’ve seen those lever action things and would love to have one, yea that’s a beefy round alright and is probably our first Gummitt issue center fire , it’s what the trap door springfields shot the .45-70 Govt. But some of them were rebarreled , my son had one that was a .50-90 I think it had what was called the Allison Conversion that I think was old civil war muskets that they installed the trap door on the top to load centerfire Ed’s into it and the bore was to big for the .45 Cala if I’m not mistaken but I’ve forgot more than I know now. If anyone is interested in what the .45-70 is capable of look up “ the battle of Adobee Wall where a cowboy shot a Indian off his horse killing him at 8 or 9 tenths of a mile and that’s when it was a black powder cartridge.
Like I said my buddies said when they hunted with mine they said the deers dropped like they got hit with a half a brick 
going 500 MPH and said there’s no suffering to it and they were dead before they hit the ground as if the earth disappeared beneath their feet lol It’s still the most popular bear cartridge in Alaska and and and up north