New to me unfired Uberti Courteney Stalking Rifle in .303 British

[Noah Zark]

Traded for a "used" unfired Uberti Courteney Stalking Rifle in .303 British:



It's a gun that never existed; Englishman and African big game hunter Frederick Courtneney Selous never owned a Winchester 1885 High Wall. But Uberti and distributor Stoeger thought it a good idea and marketing ploy to build these in commemoration of F C Selous and offer them with Prince of Wales pistol grips and scope-friendly rear sight rails. They are chambered in .303 and 45-70. I have several 45-70 single shots, but up to now no .303 single shots. The closest thing was a custom 1885 High Wall in 30-40, and it is such a great rifle that I sprang for this .303.

Now to find time to play with it.

Noah

[sukivel]

Those are cool and classy!


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[Der Gebirgsjager]

There may be lions in your future.

DG

[Noah Zark]

There may be lions in your future.

DG

We have a bad wildebeest problem here in northern PA. Invasive feces.

Noah

[Der Gebirgsjager]

Did you happen to see the movie "The Ghost and the Darkness?" The main character is set to hunt lions with a 303 British which appears to be a sporterized Lee Enfield, but is perhaps a similar commercial sporter. A friend talks him into taking a larger caliber rifle which subsequently misfires when he is faced with a maneater. The professional White Hunter chews him out for trading a proven rifle for an unproven rifle. I think you'll have a good chance using the old 215 gr. RNSP.

It would be nice to have a rapid repeat shot or two.....

DG

[Noah Zark]

Did you happen to see the movie "The Ghost and the Darkness?" . . . I think you'll have a good chance using the old 215 gr. RNSP.

It would be nice to have a rapid repeat shot or two..... DG

I did not see the movie, but I'll look it up, thanks!

As for a rapid repeat shot, that's what holding three rounds between the weak hand's fingers are for . . .

I plan on using Randy Moyer's .312 diameter, 180 GR. FN gas checked SAECO #62305 boolit. I've had excellent luck with them in No. 1 Mk III and No. 4 Mk I and II rifles.

I get most of my boolits from Randy, with some from Montana, Missouri, Matt's, and Evergreen. Randy's website: https://moyerscastbullets.com/

Noah

[Lionel Allen]

I picked one up a couple of years ago, used on consignment, still with a hang tag on the trigger guard.
Mucked with it a little bit, and never tried it for accuracy until a couple of weeks ago. It did pretty good with
150 gr.ain J words, even if the bore does run around the .314-.315" in my specimin.
I would like to try it with some paper patched boolits and see what it does with those. My Ruger Number one
doesn't do so well with paper patched boolits since the leade is rather sharp and tears up the paper.

[15meter]

Did you happen to see the movie "The Ghost and the Darkness?" The main character is set to hunt lions with a 303 British which appears to be a sporterized Lee Enfield, but is perhaps a similar commercial sporter. A friend talks him into taking a larger caliber rifle which subsequently misfires when he is faced with a maneater. The professional White Hunter chews him out for trading a proven rifle for an unproven rifle. I think you'll have a good chance using the old 215 gr. RNSP.

It would be nice to have a rapid repeat shot or two.....

DG

Pretty sure it was a Lee-Speed rifle, a commercial version of the military rifle. I had a buddy who owned one. An exceptionally fine English hunting rifle. It shot cast in .303 very well

Great fun to see how many times you could hit the dinger with a full magazine. Dinger was swinging pretty good by the last shot. Timing had to be just right for the last ding.

As nice a rifle as it was, if ever presented the chance, I think I would prefer a couple of 450 grain slugs from a nice double. I've stood next to a full lion mount. 450 is about where you want to start.

Those putty tats are big.

Even more thread drift, my daughter went to Chicago today to waste a couple of days in museums there. The Field Museum is on her list, I fully expect photos of the two lions, to the best of my knowledge, they are still on exhibit.

[LAH]

Appears to be a very nice rifle.