45Colt Lever Action 1866 Uberti

[senecahornet]

Any Loading Data to share? I have been using TrailBoss

 

[RoyceP]

It's a modern rifle so no reason to use black powder. Lots of 45 Colt data out there, but try Unique and you won't be tempted to use anything else.

 

[Crunchy Frog]

Trail Boss may be “no more”.

I worked up a load with Red Dot under a 200 grain bullet.

 

[senecahornet]

So happens i do have a full can of red dot. thank you. will do some research on a load, weather is getting warmer here to do some outdoor shooting

 

[senecahornet]

thanks Royce. seems like quite a few club members here use Unique. and so happens club going to run a black powder shoot in July. i intend to shoot blackpowder in my 1873 Pieta 45Colt and my 1866 Henry Repro.

 

[RoyceP]

Well the old Army load was 30 grains of black powder under a 255 grain LRN. Should bang pretty loud and make lots of smoke.

 

[Driftwood Johnson]

Howdy

7.5 grains of Unique under a 250 grain bullet has always been my standard load for 45 Colt, when I was not stuffing it full of Black Powder.

Not a barn burner and not a mouse fart.

 

[Driftwood Johnson]

1873 Pieta 45Colt and my 1866 Henry Repro.

Howdy Again

Probably a typo. The 1866 was the first model Winchester produced under the Winchester name. The Henry was patented in 1860 and produced from 1862 until 1866 by the New Haven Arms Company. In 1866, after a dispute with B. Tyler Henry, Oliver Winchester changed the name of the New Haven Arms Company to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Easy to tell the difference. Although both had brass frames (actually gunmetal, a type of bronze) the Henry rifle had no fore stock and was loaded through the front of the magazine. The 1866 Winchester had a fore stock and was loaded through the King's patent loading gate on the side of the frame.

P.S. Be sure you use a soft, gooey, Black Powder compatible bullet lube on your bullets for your BP ammo. BP does not like modern hard bullet lube and you will find your accuracy plummeting after a few rounds build up a hard caked, difficult to remove, deposit of fouling in the bore.

 

[RoyceP]

I suspect the OP probably has one of these:
https://www.ubertireplicas.com/product/1866-yellowboy-rifle-carbine-correct/

 

[44 AMP]

Well the old Army load was 30 grains of black powder under a 255 grain LRN. Should bang pretty loud and make lots of smoke.

The original .45 Colt load was 40gr of black powder in balloon head cases under a 255gr bullet described as a "conical flat point"

I've been running only Unique in my .45 Colt guns for the past 30+ years. Red Dot will not deliver quite as much velocity as Unique does, before it reaches max allowable pressure, and tends to burn a bit dirtier than Unique, though being a bit sooty, to me a very minor point, when shooting cast slugs.