Hello fellow shooters! As the title says, I Found a Uberti made 1885 Courtney English style Stalking rifle in 303 British! I have been looking around for a nice classic single shot rifle in a classic caliber for awhile now.
I love tinkering with the single shots, especially the falling block actions! I tried a few Ruger number 1’s over the years, and really wanted the stainless 30-30 version they made a couple years ago. I never had any luck getting the number one design to shoot to my expectations. I always hear of fellow shooters giving reports of. MOA performance from them, but I have never seen this yet.��.
I have now tried 5-6 different Browning/Miruko B-78’s and 1885 BPCR’s and they shoot amazing! So when I saw this Uberti single shot with the 1885 falling block style action, I felt more confident to grab one and try it out!
I will give a bit of a range report when the rifle arrives and I get it set up and shooting.
Does anyone here have any experience with these Uberti single shots? What is you thoughts on the quality of the overall build?
I plan to do some load development with the 200 Grain, #314299 Accurate mould bullet. The rifle is listed with a 1:10” twist, so I may only get my velocities up around 1800-1900fps before potential accuracy issues show up. I will give it a try and see what I can get out of it and still shoot decent groups.