stubbicatt
New member
I've been lurking in the blackpowder forum for awhile now.
When I was 13 or 14 I bought a brass framed 1851 Navy revolver, which I used to shoot and enjoy. Haven't shot it in years. The wedge has dents in it from using a flat bladed screwdriver and mallet for removal. It looks ok overall, but the grips are rather short for my hands, and for other reasons, I've become excited at the prospect of a Uberti Whitneyville Dragoon. I've shot BPCR though not recently. So I have a passing familiarity with loading and shooting these revolvers, I'm not a complete neophyte.
I like the looks of the Whitneyville with the sort of fitted grips, as opposed to the squared off grips of subsequent models. I'm not entirely crazy about the oval bolt notches, as I guess the squared off notches of subsequent models are more functional.
1. Where would I find an inexpensive leather "slim jim" holster for a Whitneyville?
2. What range of powder charges give good performance/accuracy?
3. Should I use wonder wads and balls, wonder wads and conicals, or balls and grease or conicals and grease?
4. Will my No. 10 caps work, or will I need to find No. 11's?
5. Does the loading lever unspring and fall down when you shoot it as does the Walker?
6. Can one adjust the sights to shoot to point of aim once he has arrived at a suitably accurate load, or must one always hold under to compensate for the tendency of these revolvers to shoot high?
My uses for this revolver are simply informal plinking or target shooting in the National Forest.
Thanks in advance for your helpful advice.
When I was 13 or 14 I bought a brass framed 1851 Navy revolver, which I used to shoot and enjoy. Haven't shot it in years. The wedge has dents in it from using a flat bladed screwdriver and mallet for removal. It looks ok overall, but the grips are rather short for my hands, and for other reasons, I've become excited at the prospect of a Uberti Whitneyville Dragoon. I've shot BPCR though not recently. So I have a passing familiarity with loading and shooting these revolvers, I'm not a complete neophyte.
I like the looks of the Whitneyville with the sort of fitted grips, as opposed to the squared off grips of subsequent models. I'm not entirely crazy about the oval bolt notches, as I guess the squared off notches of subsequent models are more functional.
1. Where would I find an inexpensive leather "slim jim" holster for a Whitneyville?
2. What range of powder charges give good performance/accuracy?
3. Should I use wonder wads and balls, wonder wads and conicals, or balls and grease or conicals and grease?
4. Will my No. 10 caps work, or will I need to find No. 11's?
5. Does the loading lever unspring and fall down when you shoot it as does the Walker?
6. Can one adjust the sights to shoot to point of aim once he has arrived at a suitably accurate load, or must one always hold under to compensate for the tendency of these revolvers to shoot high?
My uses for this revolver are simply informal plinking or target shooting in the National Forest.
Thanks in advance for your helpful advice.