Winchester 1876 (Uberti) 50-95 first shots

[hpbear101]

I won a Uberti/Stoeger 50-95 from an online auction and it arrived today. I had made 10 rounds from 50-110 brass, 300 grain cast (Rapine mold) over 38 grs of AA5744. I went out and shot the first 5 rounds at 50 yards on paper, and was very pleasantly surprised. With a 6 o'clock hold they were all in the 10 ring. I shot the other 5 at rocks out to about 100 yards.

I ordered some 50 Alaskan brass and it arrived today as well. I trimmed 10 of those back to 1.88 and sized them they (as well as the 110 brass) chamber fine and no need to mess with rim diameter or anything else, trim to length ad size. I plan on loading these with black powder to see how they do off the bench at 100 yards. The 5744 load does great but I like shooting BP as well.

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[cwtebay]

That's awesome!!! I've been hankering for one of those! Good report!

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[Gewehr-Guy]

Beautiful rifle, and great target, now me and everbody's gonna want one too!!

[ndnchf]

Congrats - they are great rifles. I've had one for many years. Check out the 1876 Winchester forum in CASCITY. Lots of good info.

https://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php/board,89.0.html

I shoot mine with bp. While not really a tack driver, its respectable.

[jonp]

One of my Holy Grail guns. Your very lucky to have won that, Congrats. Looks like it's a winner in the accuracy department.

[sharps4590]

I passed on one at a local auction and have regretted it ever since. Good rifle and good shooting!!

[wwmartin]

I won 80 rounds of BACO 50-95 black powder loads at the local auction and needed something to feed it to. I ended up ordering a new Uberti 76 rifle from BACO. The rims needed thinning to feed into the magazine using star-line 50-110 brass, 50 Alaskan would have been a better choice. I use the smokeless load from Cartridges of the World. Fun and accurate.

Bill

[ndnchf]

To help my aging eyes, I put an authentic M1876 Winchester tang sight by Riflesmith on mine.

[Love Life]

Beautiful rifle!! How is the recoil?

[sharps4590]

As heavy as those rifles are, it can't be bad. Crescent butt plate probably isn't the most comfortable.

[veeman]

As heavy as those rifles are, it can't be bad. Crescent butt plate probably isn't the most comfortable.

That's why I put these on my 76 in 45/75, and both my Browning 86's. Get the shotgun adapter, adds a inch or so LOP which I really like.
https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/ng/services/mediarender/THISLIFE/010046471428/media/53815996359/medium/1522700700/enhance

[ndnchf]

My full black powder loads have some whoomp to them. If shooting from the bench with just a shirt, it is noticable. I have a slip-on recoil pad I'll use for extended shooting.

[hpbear101]

Recoil is minimal, the rifle weighs more than 10lbs. The load I am using should be around 16-1700sh fps (haven't chronographed it yet) with 300 grain bullet, so fairly similar to a factory 45-70 round in a much heavier rifle.

[missionary5155]

Good evening
If you want to know the real accuracy potential of your rifle, load up 10 rounds with BP.
We use 3F Goex in our in our 50-90 repro. Off cross sticks it will shoot under 2.5 inches at 100 yards and often will do better. We are using a 350 grain slug cast of 40-1.
5744 will near do as good as 3F but never has beat our 3F loads.
Mike in LLama Land

[hpbear101]

Good evening
If you want to know the real accuracy potential of your rifle, load up 10 rounds with BP.
We use 3F Goex in our in our 50-90 repro. Off cross sticks it will shoot under 2.5 inches at 100 yards and often will do better. We are using a 350 grain slug cast of 40-1.
5744 will near do as good as 3F but never has beat our 3F loads.
Mike in LLama Land

Mike I have some sitting on the bench loaded with 82gr of Goex fffg, just waiting on a bullet sizer to arrive (today) to finish them off and go shooting.

[missionary5155]

Howdy HPbear
Every rifle we have that was a BP era or replica of such we started with 3F Goex and a 40-1 cast. Never were saddened by the choice. Those BP cartridges will still do very well. In every one we were hard pressed to come up with a smokeless combination that was better. Some never did. 3F Goex has better ignition and burning so the brass expands fast keeping the fouling in the barrel / brass.
Those other BP may be better but I have no need for paying the extra $ when 3F Goex does so well.
If I was still shooting matches maybe.
Mike in LLama Land

[Crash_Corrigan]

I have a Winchester 1885 in 50-90 Sharps by Miroku of Japan. It is one of the 200 in the series. I cannot believe that a buffalo hunter would spend a day shooting this land cannon all day long with up to 100 rounds fired. This thing is a beast of a rifle. It weighs about 12 lbs and it about as handy as a bazooka.

With a CB boolit of 695 gr and 102 gr of BP it produced 1250 FPS with excellent accuracy if I could get over the flinches this hearty cannon produced. Even with two recoil shields on my right shoulder it still hurt to shoot this thing. A buddy of mine shot one buffalo in the right front shoulder and the bullet blasted entirely through poor animal and emerged via the left rear haunch. The beast expired in it's tracks DRT.

I like to shoot steel but none of my stands can stand up to the mighty 50-90 Sharps as they all fall over dead with a big splash of lead on the steel and an almighty C L A N K ! Even out to 450 yds the target stands fall like dominoes to this beast of a rifle. I have yet to be able to shoot a box of 20 rounds at one time. I entered a contest in Boulder City one time and fired 60 rounds in one day. I ended up with a 6th place finish and a torn and wounded body that took weeks to recover from the aches and pains in the shoulder and back.

This a truly a man's rifle and it is more than I am comfortable with. So I bought a Marlin 336 CB in 38-55 from a member here. It is a blast to shoot. The 38-55 Win round was originally a BP loading and can be duplicated. It is so much fun to shoot BP. It always attracts a crowd. The Marlin is a beautiful rifle and the 38-55 loading is pleasant to shoot in either BP or smokeless. Reloading BP is a mite slower than smokeless as I use a turret press for BP and a Dillon 550 for the smokeless rounds. The only really important thing is to immediately after firing dunk your empty BP cases into a water/dawn gallon plastic jug and give them a good swish around or two and then to using hot water and dawn clean up your rifle and then dry it off and spray it down with Ballisterol.

If not cleaned the BP will cause pitting of your rifle very quickly. Get used to the smell of Ballisterol as you will use it daily......

[missionary5155]

Howdy Crash
You have to remember your shooting a lead slug 2x the weight of the 50-95 lever rifle ammo.
Plus those Buff shooters did it daily and not at a fast pace. If you had just crawled a couple hundred yards to not scare off the one ton targets you would tend to shoot at a slow pace.

[If1Hitu]

Congratulations on you winning the Uberti/Stoeger 50-95.:drinks: