First trip to the range with an Uberti 1873 Sporting rifle, and was shooting up some CAS loads I bought just for the brass from a fellow Texan who had gotten out of the game years ago. There were 60 fired cases and 40 loaded, Starline nickel. He thought he had loaded with Clays. I pulled a couple of loads and it was 8.6 grains of some kind of smokeless under a bevel-based 200-grain boolit. They fed very nicely. Here is a target shot at 50 yards with Mark's loads and old me as the nut behind the butt doing the best I could with buckhorn sights and an 8-plus pound trigger. Nothing to be proud of, but it shows the rifle's potential.
I believe that with a load it likes, a three-pound trigger, a Marbles tang rear and either an MVA Beech combination front or a Lyman/Shaver globe front, this rifle will shoot lots better -- and I will, too.
Gosh, I had forgotten what good manners a Winchester 73 in .44 WCF has. Mild recoil, mild report, capable of satisfying accuracy and dumps the empties in a small puddle at your elbow.
John Kort, Bryan Austin, Shasta, Carlsen Highway, take a bow.
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