73 Uberti 44-40

[Eric Johanen]

Sitting in the back of the vault were my Uberti Henry in .45 Colt and the 73 in 44-40. Have not had them out for quite a spell so I pulled out the 73 and gave the bore a fresh cleaning. I have on hand both a smokeless load using American Select and black powder loads with
GOEX 2 fg. These are loaded with the Lyman bullet. I'll get it on the range this week to empty the old reloads. I just placed an order with Tom at Accurate Molds for a iron 2 cavity mold #1 the 43-215C and #2 the 43-220C, bullets for smokeless and black powder. Much casting this winter. I got out my Uberti nickel plated Remington 1875 and blued Schofield and they got a fresh cleaning also. I forgot just how much fun these gun can be and will be getting reacquainted with them before the snow fly's and shooting them a bunch next season. I neglected some really nice guns this season doing all the work with the Sharps rifles. The American Select load is very accurate and clean. I'll work up loads with Swiss and OE 1.5 fg and Kik 2 fg and see how they work next season. So many nice fun guns and so little time to shoot them. Bet you guy's are feeling bad for me!