Greetings My Good Chaindrive
I went to my loading manuals, and closest I could find was a similar 250 Jacketed bullet. Max loads were about 9.0 gr Uniique,
so you should be safe. Howver, like Coffin I actually prefer the pure lead bullets in that weight as their terminal performance is extremely consistant and reliable !
BTW we had a long discussion over here
http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php?topic=28699.0about the actual alloy content used (it is common brass ) and longevity.
Basically standard SAAMI pressures, blah blah ... but here is a snip so you can skip all our chat if you like:
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Steel Horse Bailey
Re: Alloy Content of Uberti Brass Frames
Howdy!
Driftwood, thanks for posting. This is very interesting.
This part of my post is for good Professor Marvel & anyone seriously concerned about the longevity ... and strength ... of their "brass" framed Uberti rifles. I read the following in a gun review back around 1998-'99. I was considering adding a Henry or an 1866 to my armory, but was concerned about the "brass" frames.
The reviewer quoted a SASS champ who at that time used an 1866 in 45 Colt. This was before the gamer mentality set in and the shooter used ONLY factory 45 Colt full-power rounds. I'm sorry that I don't remember WHO he was, or what brand of bullets, but I'll relay what he said in the article. At that time, he had fired over 100,000 rounds 'thru his '66 ... and had NO stretching issues.
I figured that was good enough for me! By the way, I settled on an 1866 which probably has 10-12,000 rounds fired 'thru it. Before I went to (nearly) all BP, I fired only full bang 45 Colt rounds, loaded to the maximum safe level as found in several loading books. Since I went to BP, I shoot 37-39 grs charges. (I fill them to 1/8"-1/16" of 3F Goex from the top, then a .030" wad and 250 gr BigLube tm seated on top. Just so I know how much 3F is in each round, I weigh the charge. In other words, they are loaded volumetrically, then weighed for informational purposes.)
I am a proud and un-repentant Warthog. I took these rounds deer hunting last fall ... but I didn't even SEE a deer. I'm confident that barring bad shot placement, Buckie would have succumbed to this round ... with NO problem.
Regards -
SHB
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