Uberti 1873 .44-40 bore anomalies?

Started by Oregon Bill, Yesterday at 09:22:37 AM

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Oregon Bill

Sooo, I was just looking at Uberti twist, land and groove dimensions for their 1873s in .44-40 and encountered two wildly different sets of specifications.
Dixie says their Uberti 73s have a 1:36 twist, .004"-deep rifling and land diameters of ..424 and groove of .432.
Cimarron in their Uberti chart lists the following for .44-40 rifles: 1:20 twist, .4215 land and .429 groove.
Is Dixie all wet, or does Uberti make two different .44-40 barrels for their Model 1873s? This does not make sense.

https://www.cimarron-firearms.com/bore-groove-twist

https://www.dixiegunworks.com/index/pag ... lica+Rifle

Oregon Bill

Quiet here, but at least my question has been glanced at 62 times. One must keep hope alive.  ;)

Abilene

Seems like I've seen people griping about Uberti's twist rate in the 44-40 a few times over the years, don't remember any details, but I think it was on this site.
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David Battersby

My 25 year old 1873 SpaghettiChester (Uberti) has a .429 groove diameter. I am sure I checked the twist rate BUT that was two decades ago. I can tell you that it is accurate out to 200 meters with 240 - 250 grain bullets and Reloder 7.
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Oregon Bill

Thank you gentlemen. More data points are a good thing.

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