This Uberti as designed carries a single round by way of a drop-in guide through the upper side of the swing out trap door action. This rifle carries a walnut stock high grade and mounts ladder military long-range sights, leaf style mid barrel.
Now to the fine art of shooting. This is my rifle the Sharps long-range buffalo gun. In this case, it is the Uberti once again and as offered the outstanding Sharps rifle. Uberti offers the rifle in four different models starting with the Special, followed by the Deluxe, and the last two being the Down Under series, and my favorite the Buffalo Hunter.
All of these rifles are based on the same action and barrel but the dressing is different as are the sights and fixtures as well. All use very high-grade walnut stocks, steel butt plates, case hardened receiver, and lever, with ladder sights on the first two models and the classic ultra long range tang sight on the Buffalo Hunter, and Deluxe.
The rifles are rear loading sidle open hammer rifles exactly like the original buffalo rifle models. This rifle comes in a variety of barrel lengths and stock designs. Stock are also straight or pistol grip designs and the receivers are cases hardened with blued barrels. This high wall design makes use of a falling block breech system and a straight in chambering of a single round at a time.
The rifles are set up for both hunting and target work depending on the needs of the shooter. Walnut stocks are select grade wood and checking as well as metal to wood fit is perfection. I shoot the High Wall Uberti in my selected British cartridge and my rifle is nothing less than perfect in every respect. In most cases, you will find that the Government is offered in Sharps style rifles or lever guns as has been noted in the proceeding review.
This is because the straight walled cartridge fit the levels well as it does those falling or rolling block single-shot rifles. The rifle carries several clean long-range kills on pound Animals, I can say that this double-set trigger long range Sharps that uses an octagon barrel blade front sight with a ladder extension sight for through yard shooting is a well built big game rifle.
This is an outstanding piece of rifle making art as my rifle has a case hardened receiver as well as hammer and loading lever.
Wood to metal fit is outstanding as applied to the Walnut high-grade stock. With a factory zero at yards and shooting Hornady Leverevolution grain bullets, I have taken buffalo up on the Triple U, being the ranch that the free range buffalo were hunted and filmed in the movie Dances With Wolves here in South Dakota. And the in this my Sharps rifle design produced all one-shot kills inside yards by way of the old school buffalo hunters trade shot.
Being one inch behind the ear and two inches low for a cerebral impact shot that drops the animals in their tracks. Why shoot so precisely? Because the Sharps rifle can and the USDA will not certify meat that has been run to death by mounted drovers and finished with Winchesters, because some foolish hunter was not skilled enough to take the animal down with a straight on heart or neck shot.
Hunting in a full blown blizzard we harvested nine buffs by stalking and using shooting sticks from a sitting position at all times. The government USDA agent was at our side during every animal take down and none were rejected. This is the final in my review of possible offerings in the big gun. This is the Pederosoli side by side rifle that is a remake of the old African models used by the very rich when hunting Africa on safari.
There are a number of manufactures building side by side rifles around the world but this is about as good a bargain in a double gun as you are ever going to find. This rifle uses open hammers just like the original models, It is regulated where both barrels bullets meet at yards and is accurate to about yards if required. These are open sight models and as such are relegated to shorter range limits than the Sharps rifles and others.
This rifle is offered in a nice walnut stock with cheekpiece right handed and carries nice wood to metal fit all around. Currently, there are no production rifles being built in Over the years some have been built on British Enfield actions and Mauser action as well. I have a close friend that hand built one on a German 98 Large Ring Mauser and it worked out well. I have owned double rifles in and other calibers but I have found them not to be very workable out here in the American West.
I have been writing firearms and outdoor material of over 50 years to date. I have hunted across the world including Russia and a great deal of time professional hunting in Australia. I have specialized much of my work as a load developer in shotguns and rifles. I have run a small company that builds suppressor barrels of my design, and load tests for writing purposes and consulting. Web site www. It offers an option in rifle designs if the potency is what is wanted not the nostalgic factor.
I have a Marlin model it shoots good but sometimes if you try to chamber it to fast it will jam but other than that I recommend it. You can build one on a type 66 Siamese Mauser action. Author with Uberti African Courtney British. High Wall carbine.
A Uberti is very much like the Springfield Trapdoor in terms of heft, size and feel. For instance, Federal Premium ammunition makes a load firing a gr Power-Shok at feet per second, generating a foot pounds of energy at the muzzle. Since the. This is because bullets are stacked one in front of the other and recoil could potentially cause a bullet with a pointed tip to detonate the primer of the cartridge in front of it. This ammo is loaded with bullets that have a pointed, flexible, polymer tip.
This improves the ballistic coefficient of the normally round nosed or flat tipped bullet, but is still safe to use in a rifle with a tubular magazine. Finally, Buffalo Bore produces some of the hottest. Among other options, they offer a load featuring a grain jacketed flat nose bullet propelled at feet per second for a tooth rattling foot pounds of muzzle energy. Combined with modern bullet construction, these enhanced loads dramatically improve the performance of the.
This allows the hunter to ethically take game at longer ranges and still consistently penetrate deep enough to reach the vitals of the animal for a quick and ethical kill. Make no mistake: the. The effective range of the cartridge is also quite a bit longer than many people probably think at first. Unfortunately, the. This is illustrated in the table below comparing a two different. This table illustrates just how important precise range estimation and applying the proper hold over become at ranges past about yards with the.
For instance, using the ballistics of the original black powder. For this reason, long range shooters using cartridges like the. As long as he estimated the range correctly, a skilled marksman using a high quality rifle and sight could accurately hit targets out past 1, yards using the cartridge. Due to these constraints, while the. Even though there are some very real challenges associated with using the.
For one thing, the. Not only are those animals extremely large and, in the case of the big bears, potentially very dangerous, those hunting situations very rarely necessitate longer range shooting.
Another advantage of the. These rifles are often easy to carry, whether on foot or on horseback, and are quick to mount and fire. For these reasons, the. In addition to use on North American game, the. While it would not be my first choice for the longer range shots that are sometimes encountered in areas like the Kalahari Desert or Serengeti Plain, the cartridge shines when taking shots in the thick bushy conditions often encountered in the Lowveld or Mopani Bush areas common in many parts of Africa.
Using high quality soft point bullets, the cartridge can be absolutely deadly on plains game like blue wildebeest and kudu at short range.
I took a Marlin to Namibia many years ago and successfully used it to take a gemsbok and red hartebeest with excellent results. With all that in mind, there is no plains game animal that I would hesitate to use the cartridge on at ranges out to yards. Even very large animals like the eland should present no problems as long as a heavy for caliber, controlled expansion bullet is used and placed appropriately.
With all that being said, I would be very cautious about using the. For one thing, even when using very high pressure loads designed for modern rifles, the cartridge only produces between 3, and 3, foot pounds of energy at the muzzle. This falls short of the legal minimum energy requirement of some countries namely Namibia and Zimbabwe for use on dangerous game.
Additionally, at. For a more detailed discussion on hunting cape buffalo with the. Before we wrap up, I wanted to touch on how the. Those are the two most popular cartridges among hunters who use lever-action rifles in North America.
Click the link below to learn all about the pros and cons of the. Buffalo and elephant aside, the. As a remnant from a bygone age in American history, there are few other cartridges that have as long and storied of a history as the.
While it certainly has its limitations, the. There are few modern cartridges that can match balance of power and portability that the. Book an incredible black bear hunt here. Book an outstanding African safari hunt here. To learn more about some more modern big bore centerfire rifle cartridges that are either comparable to, or far exceed, the.
The Lyman 50th Edition p and Hornady 10th Edition p reloading manuals were used as references for this article. Thank You for this excellent article on the cartridge. I would however like to point out that when handloading cast bullets ypu can obtain to grain bullets with a brinnel reading of The latter bullet has a sectional density of. Also Lyman gives a trapdoor load with this bullet over This load I am confident will take anything on this planet.
A grain Beartooth Piledriver started off at around 1,fps or a little higher will do the trick on anything, if your placement is good. Though I appreciate your comments, I must respectfully disagree with your conclusions. That is why you use hotter rounds like the Grizzly Hunter Xtreme I shot the whole box, with no discernable damage to the rifle or accuracy.
The Springfield Trapdoor in It fires a grain. Are you still faced with the same challenges of penetration on big game such as Cape buffalo or elephants with this weapon? I recently shot a lb. Hog quarteringin my direction at about 40 yds and she looked like she was hit by a freight train. I used a marlin with grain hornady ftx. This is my go to load for brush hunting bears and hogs.
A reasonably well placed shot is potent enough to use a single shot, and gives me time to eject and load another if needed, which has been so far never.
Knowing the limitations will keep you safe and plenty of meat in the freezer. I personally use grain had loads and never had any issues dropping Russian boar, Bears, Elk under yards. For anything further out I Bring the.
As a follow up. The round went through one shoulder and stopped imbedded in the opposite shoulder dropping the boar in his tracks. Even though he managed to stand up again he just fell over with nothing left to fight with. Such a amazing round. I produce my own rounds and projectiles. How much angle do I go to for yds and yds Jerry Burden.
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