Anyone use a Uberti 1871 hunter carbine in 45-70?

[Dave Bulla]

Anyone shooting the Uberti 1871 Hunter Carbine? Anyone doing it with black powder ?

Anyone even familiar with the rifle? I have a chance to buy one for a pretty good price but I'm undecided. It's a tiny little thing about the size of a Stevens Favorite. Weighs about 4.5 pounds on a good day. Obviously gonna be a kicker at that size so I was thinking it might be a hoot with black powder loads. Recoil doesn't bother me much so I'd surely try some full power smokeless loads just because but I'm thinking the real fun of something like this would be reduced loads in smokeless or black with something like the Lyman 385 grain rn or even some collar buttons for the kids.

I'm not generally a fan of short barrel guns of any kind but this thing fascinates me for some reason. I think the actual barrel length is 22" but the overall gun size makes it seem tiny. It's basically a 1/3rd reduced scale rifle and it's just is nagging at me to buy it. I find very little first hand info on them available on line so thought I'd ask here.

[Dan Cash]

I don't know what an 1871 carbine is but will say that I have a more or less 1/2 scale Sharps 1874 rifle that weighs in like your 1871. Mine is in .38-55 and with 44 grains of 3Fg under a 250 grain bullet it hurts. I can not imagine a similar gun in .45-70 slinging 405 grains of lead or more over 65-70 grains of 2Fg. An 1895 .45-70 with 350 gr bullet and 70 gr 2Fg black gets my attention and is all the fun I want.

[Kraschenbirn]

No experience with the Uberti 'Hunter' but do have a repro 1873 Trapdoor Carbine and, for me, shooting the original 405 gr/55 gr FFg 'carbine' load ceases to be any kind of fun at all after 20 or so rounds. Now, on the other hand, I can shoot my repro 1871 Rem # 1 1/2 (heavy sporter), also in .45-70, all afternoon with 440 gr/68 gr. FFg.

Bill

[Boz330]

The largest caliber listed for this model is 357Mag, not 45-70 so recoils shouldn't be a problem.

Bob