Hello guys and gals,
Just wondering if anyone here can tell me what type of accuracy they’re getting with their 1873?
I’m running an 18” 38/357 and she doesn’t seem to shoot as well as my Marlin 1894C
The main problem being I like the looks of the 1873 and take it to the range more often.
A couple factors are I prefer the Marlin’s brass bead and rear sights (I hold up some front sight to make the longer range shots and take a fine bead for the close up shots) and I haven’t played with load development. I shoot a bare bottomed 358156 over 3.5 grains of bullseye and it’s always shot very well in the 1894 so I never changed.
My accuracy claims aren’t anything special, just being able to hit a 12” or so gong at 200 with about 90% success rate off of a set of bags. Seems the 1873 is all over the place.
I’m going to give the bore a quick scrub. I haven’t done that in a long time so maybe it needs a little cleaning.
I’m going to bring the Marlin out and do a side by side comparison.
Maybe the brass bead is easier to pick up than the blued 1873 front sight and helping with sight picture?
Maybe the 1873 doesn’t like that load?
Maybe my eyes have aged enough in the last couple years that I’m not shooting as good as 5 years ago with the Marlin?
Maybe the Uberti’s arent as accurate as a Marlin?
Maybe during changing over my dies I dropped the crimp back giving my inconsistent ammo? I’m going to try to rule that out with a labaradar this coming week.
Is my mish mash ofmoxed brass causing inconsistencies?
Any suggestions on variables I can work through?
Thanks for looking!