I took the Cimarron/Uberti 1873 lever action out to the range today, and it functioned well. The rifle is chambered in .45 colt, and the recoil is not at all bad (certainly nothing like my Rossi 92 in .44 Magnum!). No problems with feeding or ejecting. The rifle did shoot a little high and to the right, so I've got to work on that. But I'm very pleased with it. I also just found out that Uberti makes an 1873 in .45/70 that holds eight rounds (I've never seen a lever action in that caliber that had a capacity of more than four). That's a hand-full of power right there. Maybe something for another day...
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ReplyDeleteBallistically, how does .45/70 compare to a traditional hunting rifle round like 30.06, or the "classic" .30-30?
(If I buy a rifle any time soon, it would most likely be a lever-action. I just like them.)
The 45/70 is straight walled and looks like a long pistol bullet. A modern 45/70 shoots a 300gn bullet at around 2000 fps and having a pistol shaped bullet it has a lousy ballistic coefficient, not much good for long distance. The 30-06/308 with a 150gn bullet does around 2900 fps, has a decent ballistic coefficient, generally good out to 1000 yards. 30-30 does about 2200 fps with a 150 gn bullet, Excellent accuracy for a couple of hundred yards but peters out due to a low BC(flat nose and all).
ReplyDeleteSo the advantage of the .45/70 is higher kinetic energy of the heavier bullet (at short range)?
ReplyDeleteGlad it worked out better than my Ubertis Paco.
ReplyDeleteI took my Sig .22 to the range today. It didn't like the ammo that range had but I have a brick of Federal, aptly named, range ammo and it liked that fine.
Now I just have to work on DAO accuracy.
I've always been a little skittish about buying a low-caliber semi-auto pistol because I heard the guns can be a little fussy about the ammo and I've had some bad experience. I owned a Sterling .25 one time that was an absolute jam-o-matic - which was too bad, because it was a beautiful little pistol, but I just couldn't find any ammo that would feed reliably.
ReplyDeleteOf course, if any .22 semi-auto is going to work well, I would imagine that it would be a Sig. Do you have a Sig in any other calibers?
It's a pair for a 250. You take the fire control group out and stuck it in the .22 or the 45acp full size 250. I got them as a set off armslist.
ReplyDeleteI also have a 45acp 250sub compact.
The 250s are all dao only.
My favorite scary black gun is my Sig Pro 2340, that's sa/da. It's the smoothest firing auto I've fired. I let one guy fire it and now all he'll buy are Sigs.
I got it used back in 02 or 03.
V: Oh, yeah, you mentioned that conversion deal. I think that's extremely cool.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I practice with .22s but I'm practicing for .45s. It's the same action so everything is the same except for recoil, and recoil happens after the shot so when I get good at hitting what I want, it should transfer very well to my other Sigs.
DeleteSounds like a good idea.
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