{"id":29570,"date":"2026-05-17T11:25:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/1884-springfield-trapdoor-rifle-vs-original-45-70-500-cartridge-at-300-and-500-yards\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T11:25:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:25:35","slug":"1884-springfield-trapdoor-rifle-vs-original-45-70-500-cartridge-at-300-and-500-yards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/1884-springfield-trapdoor-rifle-vs-original-45-70-500-cartridge-at-300-and-500-yards\/","title":{"rendered":"1884 Springfield Trapdoor rifle vs original 45-70-500 cartridge at 300 and 500 yards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yM8zFdi1s7A?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1&#038;controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I wanted to do this since I have had the Ideal tool for reloading the .45-70-500 cartridge. This film is about shooting the M1884 Springfield Trapdoor to 300 and 500 yards with a close copy of the original cartridge. Long range, back powder cartridge, Ideal tool. What elso you need for a good day? <br \/>This is not the full version of the film. The full version showing the reloading part is visible at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/original-m1884-158238961\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/original-m1884-158238961<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#capandball #firearmshistory #firearmseducation #springfield #western #blackpowder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to do this since I have had the Ideal tool for reloading the .45-70-500 cartridge. This film is about shooting the M1884 Springfield Trapdoor to 300 and 500 yards with a close copy of the original cartridge. Long range, back powder cartridge, Ideal tool. What elso you need for a good day? This&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/1884-springfield-trapdoor-rifle-vs-original-45-70-500-cartridge-at-300-and-500-yards\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1884 Springfield Trapdoor rifle vs original 45-70-500 cartridge at 300 and 500 yards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}