What is the difference between 40-70 winchester and 40-70SS?
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What is the difference between 40-70 winchester and 40-70SS?
What is the difference between 40-70 winchester and 40-70SS and will 40-70 winchester dies work for 40-70SS?
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Good morning, Their is no real difference in the two when you are talking original guns, that I no of. If you are talking todays 40-70 there is a difference. The 40-70 in our guns is based on the 405 which has a little smaller web area than the original sharps cartridge. Hope this helps, Thanks Kirk
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I hate to disagree, but the .40-70 WCF is quite different from the .40-70 SS.
As Kirk mentioned the .40-70 SS is similar to the .405 WCF (and probably even more closely related to the .40-72 WCF, a less-known Winchester 1895 chambering) which is essentially based on the .30-40 Krag case. The .40-70 WCF on the other hand is almost identical to the .40-82 WCF and as such is made from .45-90 brass (2.4-inch case length and the same rim as the other .45's). Main difference between the .40-70 WCF and .40-82 WCF is the bullet weight.
If you have .40-70 WCF dies they would be very valuable and very hard to come by. I would suspect that you could buy several sets of .40-70 SS dies if you sold a set of .40-70 WCF dies.
Trey
As Kirk mentioned the .40-70 SS is similar to the .405 WCF (and probably even more closely related to the .40-72 WCF, a less-known Winchester 1895 chambering) which is essentially based on the .30-40 Krag case. The .40-70 WCF on the other hand is almost identical to the .40-82 WCF and as such is made from .45-90 brass (2.4-inch case length and the same rim as the other .45's). Main difference between the .40-70 WCF and .40-82 WCF is the bullet weight.
If you have .40-70 WCF dies they would be very valuable and very hard to come by. I would suspect that you could buy several sets of .40-70 SS dies if you sold a set of .40-70 WCF dies.
Trey
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According to my copy of Cartridges of the World, the 40-70 winchester is bottlenecked and the 40-70 Sharps straight is ,well, straight. There was a 40-70 sharps necked also. The 40-70 winchester and the 40-70 Sharps necked shot the same 330 grain bullet.
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