Feed Issue on 1873

[Deadeye Dick]

I have a 73 Uberti Winchester in 44-40 and I have never had a problem with it. I wouldn't have anything else.
Deadeye Dick

[Qball]

Thank's WWE and DD   
I'll start a new thread on my next questions 

[Slo' Poke Pete]

If I remember right, the 44-40 was the grandparent of the .44 Magnum.

The .44 Russian is the grandaddy of the .44 Mag.  .44 Russian... .44 S&W Special... .44 Remington Mag.  The bottle-necked WCF cartridges generally feed better in lever guns than do the straight walled cartridges like these. 

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Slo-Poke,

I have a newer model '94 and a Ubert Model ' 73.

Two totally different guns in design. While you are right in everything newer than the Model '73, I believe the Henrys, Model '66 and Model '73 all have horizontal carrier blocks ... these rifles seem to work best with the traditional straight walled cartridges ... My Model 73, made for .45 LC, even digests .45 Schofield with aplomb.

My Model 94, with the angled carrier that was designed for more modern bottle neck loads and smokeless ammo, is very fussy shooting  even .45 LC. It will jam if the reloaded cartridges are even a bit over or under the norm for a factory produced bullet.

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Here's a thought I have been playing around with ... I have thought about taking a set of standard inside woodworking calipers and setting them for the length that I know works with my rifle.


Then comparing the calipers to every other bullet for LOA ... any odd ducks I would use shoot in my pistol ...

[Montana Slim]

Folks.....99.99% probablility this is a brass problem....If this is Federal brass, then I'd rate it more likely than that to be the brass 

I didn't catch the caliber, but most CAS pistol ammo...& certainly anything that would/should be ran in an 1873 should be at a low pressure level & you won't see sparation from headspace, regardless of how much excessive you have. First real problem you encounter would be fail-to-fire.

Slim