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Great video. Both those load seemed pretty hot, really snapping the gun back. I shoot both the 44-40 and 45 Colt, both in pistol and rifle. I like them both. If you want to try something that stings a little, try the Hornady Lever revolution 222 grain, FTX @ 960 FPS. You ever get your left hand index finger burned ? It was in front of the trigger guard and worried me a little.

Very nice. Distance? Keep it up!

Great video!! cant wait to see the 2nd part. 2f is what most 45colt ammo is loaded with originally. I have never shot a 2nd or 3rd gen colt. My guess they would be very similar shooting. I can speak on 1st gens vs replicas shooting only blackpowder. 1st gen rifling holds up better to fowling before Losing accuracy.

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Good to see you back in action Todd! You got very good results from that short barrel, i have a Uberti with the 7 1/2" barrel and I find that is not as consistent as this one, I have always thought that the "modern" repros have the .452" bore, whereas they should be 454", unlike the C&B revolvers where the cylinders can be reamed out with the 45 Colt this cannot be done, the cylinders seem to be over diameter already, which squeezes the projectile into the shallow rifling. Hope your unpacking went well! Chris B.

Those guns sure kick more than my .45 Colt with Remington ammo.

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Standard load 250g bullet behind 40g 3F...or, 2F whichever is on hand. Both are at 1.5 or 2 (depending on me.

This will be very interesting! I always enjoy your videos!

With a 200 grain bullet compared to a 250 grain bullet there is quite a difference. Shoot the same bullet weight in both guns and there probably won’t be much of a difference in both velocity and energy.

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I see your hands moving a lot which probably hurts your groups . I'm a lot Older than you (73) so when I shoot groups for accuracy I put a sand bag under my hands and this helps me a lot especially when sighting in a new load , gun or my Cap and Ball revolvers .I really like your videos , I'm in the N.W. corner of Arizona. I avoid Starbucks ,I don't like their Coffee and about 2 years ago they came out against our 2A right to carry .

A nice comparison, thank you for sharing, and I look forward to part two. As to powder, the records are clear: the original cartridges used 2F powder, not 3F. I know that seems strange, but I have documented it. I had Accurate Molds make me a good mold for a good replica of the original 250-grain bullet and I shoot it with 2F, and it works quite well.

In Elmer Keith's book "Six Guns" he used a full case of 2F Black Powder but doesn't mention the brand. If you reload be aware you can not use the same bullets as the .45 ACP .Years ago a friend of mine tried some .45 Colt loads in his gun with good accuracy so he bought a box of bullets and reloaded them . When we went shooting he couldn't hit anything so he asked me to check it out. He didn't know the .45 Colt uses a .454 " dia. bullet and the .45 ACP uses .452" dia. so the bullets were just rattling down the barrel. When he switched to the proper size bullets his accuracy was back .

I own several of both including Pietta and they all are great guns

I really love SAA revolvers. Even though I do own a Colt SAA in 22 cal., I would love to add one of the big bores to my collection. Still an actual Colt would be well out of my budget these days so when I manage to make it happen, it will have to be one the the replicated brands.

Looking forward to part 2. Thanks for the video. I love the out takes. please keep those in.

I thought 3rd gen Colts were just Uberti parts assembled by Colt employees 🤔 Now, what if the Colt employees are Italian 🤔🤔 Now, my brain hurts 😵‍💫

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I actually traded my third generation Colt 5.5in SAA 45 colt for a S&W model 29 yesterday. Over the past 4 years I have tried different bullet weights and profiles and at least a dozen different smokeless and black powders and could never get it to shoot well. At 15 yards it would but a shotgun pattern a foot left and two feet high. I finally had enough and traded it off. I have a Uberti Cattleman that shoots fantastic with well regulated sighs right out of the box. It isn't as pretty as the Colt was, but a pretty gun that doesn't shoot is of no use to me. My second generation Colt New Frontier in 357 is great. That gun will shoot any 38 special or 357 load I put in it fantastic. I guess my Colt SAA must have been one meant to be looked at and not shot.

BP just sounds like a real load.

I have 2 Uberti Cattleman ll 1873 colt replicas, one in 357 mag, the other chambered in 9mm. I also have a beautiful Taylor&Company/Uberti 1873 Winchester replica rifle in 357 mag. They are all pretty decent shooters. Looking forward to part 2. Thank you.

Thank you. I can't wait for part 2.

One of my guys used to be late for work. It was a stretch of highway that was always very crowded. I told him the same. leave early.

Thanks Todd, looking forward to the Colt video. What is a Montanan doing in Arizona in the summertime, isn’t that seasonally backwards?

I own two Uberti 1873 clones. One is a 4.75" in 44 spl and the other is 7.5" in .357 mag. The 44 spl is on my nightstand. It is pretty much a less than 1.5" gun at 25 yards with my loads. The .357 is about the same. Handloader magazine tested a 44 spl exactly like mine and oddly.. with almost the exact same load. Using a ranson rest the gun shot cloverleafs at 25 yards... one of the most accurate he had tested.

What is on the bottom of the grip on the Uberti?

Hurry Please LOL

Looking forward to Colt’s response!

Oh man, leave us hangin'!1

Should be using 7.5 inch barrels.

You just CANNOT get to the point.

Of course he did, it's not even a logical question, he knew the score!

Old school....have you tried lapping the barrel ? It's disturbing that these commemorative rifles were sold this way. I had a Canadian Centennial '94 and it was very pretty, octagon barrel....didn't shoot, got rid of it. I also have an old '94 with a 4 digit serial number that looks pretty good on the outside for its age but it has a barrel like a sewer pipe...rifling is about 3% out of 10....obviously using black powder cartridges and not cleaned properly....however, using PB in this poor barrel has me on a pie plate at 75 yards

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My two Uberti SAA clones are chambered in 44 magnum like my 1895 Marlin Lever action rifle..I would still like to have one in 44 40 just for kicks🥃😎👌

Custer’s head wound was above his left temple. He also had a left-sided chest wound (heart). Custer was right handed…’nuff said.

Custer's skull wound was a bullet hole in his left temple. Was custer left handed? That's the missing piece of the puzzle.

All movies made from the past are bunch of lies for 💰. Going to South Dakota we were told his brother killed him. He was already wounded. And they also scalp General Custer.

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Sorry, but I don't buy this suicide theory. This is a discounted story told by Porter to a kid years after the battle. No one who was there saw him dissect Custer’s wound. Custer was right handed and a small bullet entered his left temple. Not in Custer’s nature to think of such and no one verified that those three guns ever ended up in the hands of those noted in the story. Benteen looked for powder burns around Custer's head wound as a case of suicide and found none.

Major Reno made split second decisions that saved the lives of many of his men by retreating to high ground. Reno didn't abandon Custer but rather Custer abandoned Reno by not attacking the Sioux / Cheyenne village at the same time as Reno. Plus, Custer developed the flawed tactical plan of dividing his regiment in into three separate units (Custer, Reno, and Benteen) diminishing their strength at any one point of attack. Similar Custer tactics were used against smaller Indian villages but Sitting Bull's assembled warriors were probably ten times more than normal for one village. Finally, Custer was supposed to wait for General Terry and his troops before preceding with the attack which he obviously did not do and which ultimately cost the lives of his men and his own life.

Custer was the second casualty of the battle. He took musket ball to the left of chest that blew him over back of his horse. He was then loaded back onto his horse. He was then in and out of consciousness. After this it was just a series of retreats. Crazy Horse cut off the retreat trying to link up with Reno. Then it was just a matter of time until the copper jacketed spent cartridges seized in the chambers of the rifles, which made the rifles useless. The Indians saw this happening and pulled back and just lobbed arrows into soldiers positions. They then just over ran the soldiers positions. Custer was shot by someone behind his left ear, to keep him from being captured and tortured. Custer's body was the only body not mutilated by the Indian squaws. After the battle they just buried soldiers more or less where the body parts were found. Tom Custer was identified by a tattoo on one of his arms. Five members of the Custer family died that day. Custer was a fool. He classically under estimated the enemy. This was the third time Custer tried to close on these Indians. The two other times they always ran away and hid. It was Sitting Bull's vision of this battle which drew Indians from everywhere to be in this battle. And yes soldiers did shoot themselves to keep from being tortured to death. Some 30 soldiers were captured and tortured to death that night. There was a major cover up of what happened that day. And there still is. Custer and his command being killed over shadowed the centennial celebration. How could meer Indians defeat and kill Custer and his command? But this wasn't the first defeat the US Army suffered. Shortly before the Civil War the US Army suffered over 900 casualties with the red man. Red Cloud defeated the US Army. And even before this battle Crook was supposed to have joined with Terry and Custer. Crazy Horse engaged Crook who retreated suffering 75 casualties. Custer found and reported that there was gold in the Black Hills two years before this battle. From when gold was first taken from the Black Hills to 1985, over 5 billion dollars in gold was removed from the Black Hills. Money rightfully belonging to the Sioux Indians. If Sitting Bull had been smart he'd taken he and himself to Canada with the deed to the Black Hills and sold the Black Hills, and bought land in Canada. He should have known that once gold was discovered in the Black Hills his people were doomed.

i think ive managed to replicate a black powder load with smokeless. and doing so somewhat safely. Herco powder has a maximum load listed for 9.5gr under a 250gr lead bullet which is rated for 1030ish out of a 5.5in barrel. went down to 9gr myself but cant chrono it. though ive seen reports of others using this similar charge with success.

May or may not be true. As a fellow Armstrong with a long and bloody history on the borders I could imagine that Armstrong Custer fought to the end but given the savagery of the savages he may have taken the easy way out. I assume the Indians knew what General Custer looked like ! Alternatively it may just be a false rumour to cast doubt on General Armstrong Custers reputation.

Sir, I am happy for a chance to subscribe. Your stuff is educational, very much so. At 76, I thought I knew my single action revolvers, but you showed me I do not. Particularly, I knew nothing of what is meant by the "black powder frame." Although I have several Ruger single actions for hunting, this video convinces me to get a Uberti clone and use it exclusively with black powder. Thank you.

He was shot in the left temple and was right handed. Unless his right hand was injured and he had to use his left, he did not shoot himself. He had been mortally wounded by a bullet in the chest. Someone else shot him in the temple. Perhaps his brother. Perhaps it was a subordinate who was pissed at him for bringing them to such a fate. We will never know, but we do know he almost certainly did not shoot himself in his left temple.

Nah -- not with all those folks around who were bent on killing him.

I don’t think the Indians would lie I would have to agree that he took his own life.

I was a young man back in the ‘50s with a paper route, still it took me 8 months to save up enough to buy Ol’ man Ronstadt’s Merwin & Hulbert Pocket Army for $55 (I had to help my Mom out with our rent which was $25 a month back then.) I thought it was the .44 S&W, but turned out to be the .44 WCF DA version. The Ronstadts would break open a box of Black Powder .44-40’s and sell the individual cartridges for 18 cents a piece, which was pretty expensive! I carried it in a Hand Tooled holster made in Nogales Mexico for many years, it went off like a bomb and made a huge cloud of rolling smoke! I wasn’t able to pair it up with a .44 WCF rifle, but had many adventures with it and a Winchester model of 1903 ,22 RF rifle. Later in the Marines I bought a 6 ½” Ruger Flat Top in .44 Magnum from a Marine in need of money and eventually paired it up with a Winchester Model 94 in .44 Magnum and finally had my matching Carbine and similarly chambered pistol. To my surprise the rifle was a bit of a disappointment and was replaced with a scoped Husqvarna rifle in .35 Whelen. When I go to sleep at night I still find myself reaching to touch the old familiar grip of the Merwin by my bedside and often wake up having relived an adventure with it and the old self loading rim fire in my dreams….