CraigC
Sixgun Nut
To be precise, any combination of two or more elemental metals is an alloy. Brass and bronze are both alloys."That brass, incidentally, has the same tensile strength as steel according to Anthony Imperato, and if you’re concerned about its longevity or overall strength with hotter .44-40 loads, he also says the rifle’s perfectly safe with any .44-40 load that meets SAAMI specifications, and that you can “rest assured this gun will withstand lifetimes of extensive shooting."
For brass to have the same tensile strength of steel there has to be an alloy in it. The Uberti frame is brass.
Whether or not the Henry frame is stronger than Uberti is irrelevant. Just as it means very little that the steel framed 1873 is stronger yet. With standard pressure loads, neither is going to wear out or stretch. Folks are p utting tens of thousands of rounds through their Uberti 1860/1866 rifles without stretching the frames. The limitation is the design, not the materials used. If folks are thinking that a stronger bronze alloy in the Henry allows a little hot-rodding, better think again.