Its a Uberti Marked BZ for 2005 Production. Well timed and with the measurement I expect with the Uberti .44s- .450 chamber and Barrel as close as I can read a caliper. Action is well timed and the trigger is pretty good with a slight hitch before release. This is not a problem with a gun that is this heavy. Metal work, fit polish blue are all excellent and the case hardening is pretty for a cyanide process.
I got some tool heads with the intention of coneing the seating ram for eventual use with traditional shaped bullets. Then looked at the ram and it is already coned for bullets much like 19th century revolvers and in contrast to most replicas which are dished for loading round ball.
I did start out my shooting session with the 200 Grain Lee Conicals cast from Wheel weights and run through a .452 Sizer. The chambers would allow seating with 45 grains of 3f and equivalent but not with 50.
It was necessary to clean the chambers after each cylinder full of black powder for easy seating. I also shot .457 round balls over 60 grains of Swiss 3fg and Pyrodex P. Data from a kit-built Uberti matches the velocities I got with pyrodex and I suspect this would be the case with other powders too. Energies for the Bullet loads and the round ball were generally in the 500 ft pound range which matches rather closely with the heaviest standard pressure factory loads for the .45 Colt and several other powerful modern pistol cartridges. Sixty grains under the ball is a full load and there is some difficulty in getting the ball compressed beneath the chamber mouths. It would probably be a good idea to consider 55 grains of black powder and the equivalent of Pyrodex P to be the maximum load in order to save wear and tear on the seating mechanism.
As I shot over the chronograph with the 200 grain bullets, I noted that they struck about 10 inches high at 40+ yards and just a bit to the right. Shooting was done from seated position on the ground resting over my knees and the group went slightly over 4".
I a string standing from one hand at 50 yards with the ball loaded over 55 grains of Pyrodex P.
finding the point of impact to be, as expected, lower than that with the bullet and also centered over the sights.
Twenty five yards seems a bit close for shooting a revolver this big but I did it anyway. The two out the the left were from my first six and by the time I got to the next cylinder, I was catching on even though I was starting to feel the weight of the gun.
I used a rubber band and then tape to keep the lever from flopping down- which it would have done on every shot otherwise.
All-in-all, this is a very worthwhile replica to have. Although it was the State Of The ART revolver for only a few months in 1847-48 and improvements set in immediately after the first 1100 were produced, it did leave a large enough footprint on north american history that people are still talking about it 150 years later.
I got some tool heads with the intention of coneing the seating ram for eventual use with traditional shaped bullets. Then looked at the ram and it is already coned for bullets much like 19th century revolvers and in contrast to most replicas which are dished for loading round ball.
I did start out my shooting session with the 200 Grain Lee Conicals cast from Wheel weights and run through a .452 Sizer. The chambers would allow seating with 45 grains of 3f and equivalent but not with 50.
It was necessary to clean the chambers after each cylinder full of black powder for easy seating. I also shot .457 round balls over 60 grains of Swiss 3fg and Pyrodex P. Data from a kit-built Uberti matches the velocities I got with pyrodex and I suspect this would be the case with other powders too. Energies for the Bullet loads and the round ball were generally in the 500 ft pound range which matches rather closely with the heaviest standard pressure factory loads for the .45 Colt and several other powerful modern pistol cartridges. Sixty grains under the ball is a full load and there is some difficulty in getting the ball compressed beneath the chamber mouths. It would probably be a good idea to consider 55 grains of black powder and the equivalent of Pyrodex P to be the maximum load in order to save wear and tear on the seating mechanism.
As I shot over the chronograph with the 200 grain bullets, I noted that they struck about 10 inches high at 40+ yards and just a bit to the right. Shooting was done from seated position on the ground resting over my knees and the group went slightly over 4".
I a string standing from one hand at 50 yards with the ball loaded over 55 grains of Pyrodex P.
finding the point of impact to be, as expected, lower than that with the bullet and also centered over the sights.
Twenty five yards seems a bit close for shooting a revolver this big but I did it anyway. The two out the the left were from my first six and by the time I got to the next cylinder, I was catching on even though I was starting to feel the weight of the gun.
I used a rubber band and then tape to keep the lever from flopping down- which it would have done on every shot otherwise.
All-in-all, this is a very worthwhile replica to have. Although it was the State Of The ART revolver for only a few months in 1847-48 and improvements set in immediately after the first 1100 were produced, it did leave a large enough footprint on north american history that people are still talking about it 150 years later.
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