73 Uberti 44-40

[Eric Johanen]

Mike, they really are nice rifles and good shooter's to boot! I use 35 grains of GOEX 2 fg with the Lyman bullet and can shoot a 6 stage CA match without cleaning. Barrel on mine is 24 inches and I have a lube star on the muzzle. I did have to remove a little material from the cartridge carrier on my Henry so it would not bind from powder fouling after 3 or 4 stages. Took very little brass off the sides and it gave me the proper clearance to shoot through a match without cleaning. The 73 needed no attention to be fully reliable all the way to the end. A bit more lube capacity with the 43-215C will be a good thing and the 43-220C Lyman copy with a crimp groove will work nicely in both the rifle and handguns. I use a .428 dia. bullet for both rifle and handguns mainly due to tight chambers in my Remington 1875. Anything larger with Remington brass and the cartridges either will not chamber or are hard to fully seat. At .428 dia. they all shoot very well with both black an smokeless powder.