New kid on the block & a question

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Greetings from a hot and windy Cape Town,in the Republic of South Africa.

It's summer down here at the southern tip of Africa, so we are all ready to get some shooting done! BP firearms have been "deregulated" in terms of the new Firearms Control Act ie they do not need a licence and can be bought over the counter, but all other firearms (and their owners) face more and harsher restrictions. Enough moaning!

My question: I own a Uberti Remington 44 replica. It shoots low and to the left. As the gun does not have adjustable sights would I have to drift the front sight to the left or to the right in order to shoot to the centre? I realize that in order to adjust elevation it would be necessary to file the front sight down a bit to raise the barrel (something that does not please me, but everything has its price).

Thanks and good shooting!

Colin
 
Colin, welcome to THR.

I live on the left coast of NA, so while most US members of this forum sleep, I'm still up.

Tradition here is newbies by the next round. I'll take whatever you folks in South Africa would drink on a Saturday night.

Nice to have someone from a far flung land aboard. Please, tell us what conditions are like there. I've heard interesting stories in recent years about Jo'burg & Capetown that would make a coffee drinker from Seattle or NYC sit up and have second thoughts about a visit.

As for your question, I don't have an answer, so I'll just step aside on that one and let other more knowledgeable answer it.

Be well.

Nem
 
Corrections.

Hi Colin, welcome. As you will see, I am also new to this lot!! I have a .44 1858 Remington competition with progressive rifling. It is a Pietta.
If you are shooting low and left the foresight needs to move left and be lowered. The same correction can me made by moving a backsight ( if there is one ) up and right.

I live in France so am a long way from the States. We also have freedome to buy and shoot BP here with no restrictions. Other weapons are getting a bit tighter but as I moved here in 2002 from the UK it is like a breath of fresh air compared to the UK's draconian restrictions. You need a permit from the Queen just to own a pointing finger now!!

Cheers
Duncan
 
Yawn, 3:45 am as I type this and I've gotta get going. I'm headed out duck hunting this morning in the Republic of Texas. We can own and shoot anything short of a full auto without restriction, but I still love BP stuff. :D Glad I don't have to put up with BS over all my other guns, though.

If you want your gun to shoot further right, you would have to drift your FRONT sight to the left. To move your bullets left, drift the front sight to the right. It's just the opposite for the rear sight. Hope that helps.

BP = Black Powder, that smelly stuff that makes the GREAT smoke cloud. ;)

To RAISE point of impact for bullets, file off some of the front sight. Where ever you want the bullets to go, move the front sight opposite.
 
Colin, Welcome to the site. First off you may want to try holding the Remington a little different. Many right handed people have a tendency to shoot left with them. Try holding it just a little tighter and with the right wrist held straight so the wrist is in line with the gun.
The only thing you can do about the gun shooting low is file down the site or change the sight picture or install a shorter or dovetailed sight as some of us do.
You don't say what your shooting out of it or at what distance and that can make a difference too.Mike
I'm in the state of West Virginia in the USA.
 
New kid on the block again.....

Greetings

Many thanks for the words of welcome and the advice. Of course I had a senior moment and forgot to mention that I was shooting single handed at 25m using 28 grains of BP and a .451" ball (sorry folks, we're metricated here and have been for many years). Interestingly enough I am right handed but my dominant eye is the left one.

As to what the traditional South African Saturday evening beverage is, well it would probably be brandy and Coke - very popular here although I don't drink it.

Conditions here have (and are) changing for gun owners. It used to be that a licence to possess a firearm was also a licence to carry it concealed. The new Firearms Control Act came into force this year (pushed by Gun Free South Africa)meaning that all guns have to be relicenced and introducing restrictions on their ownership. The licencing process is convoluted and cumbersome and designed to deter you from applying! You may have ONE gun for self defence - that gun may be a pistol, or revolver or shotgun. Ownership restricted to a maximun of four guns, one of which may be for self defence (the so-called "occasional shooter". If you want to collect guns you have to be a "Dedicated Member" of a collectors' organization which is accredited by the Central Firearms Registry - then no restrictions apply but you can only collect say Mauser rifles or Colt pistol or whatever. I am also a sports shooter and have six handguns (ie cartridge weapons not BP guns). I now have to motivate when I re-apply for my licences as to why I want to keep and shoot these guns. I have to be a member of a club affiliated to a national sports shooting body which has to be accredited by the CFR. Painful but true. Most licence applications are returned with the words "Unsuccessful; insufficient motivation". If someone has more than four guns and cannot relicence them they must be handed in to the police for destruction (apparently one can apply for compensation but I'll believe that when I see it).

Many gun shops have closed their doors for good and those that are left are surviving on ammo and accessory sales because they are just not selling guns. The hunting industry is slowly going the same way.

This is nothing more than a government gun grab!

Meanwhile the non law-abiding carry out bank heists using AK 47s and army issue R4 223 rifles; carjacking is a daily occurrence and violence abounds.

Come visit!

Colin
 
They are actually putting taller front sights on them on purpose now- The Remingtons being popular with target shooters. In the past most of them shot high and you had to replace the front sight to get them sighted in.

Your load is the one I use for most of my .44 caliber goofing around- either with Black powder or PYrodex from the same spout.
 
I saw some little gun-o-phobic Canadian twit on Fox News yesterday crying about their gang violence problem in Canada and blaming it on our liberal gun laws. Of course, if we just outlaw guns, crime will disappear in Canada, doncha know. :rolleyes: I really don't know how long America can hold out as the last bastion of freedom what with all the socialist governments around the world whining that WE are THEIR problem. They should move the UN to France. :rolleyes:
 
Remington vs Colt

Is there any truth in the "rumour" that the Remingtons are inherently more accurate than the Colts due to the Colts having the barrel and cylinder kept in place by the wedge while the Remingtons have a fixed barrel?

Thanks

Colin
 
Maybe so, but any advantage would be pretty theoretical and not something I can prove even shooting from a bench rest. the sights are more advantageous on the Remington types but, modified for greater visibility, the colt hammer notch serves me just as well.
I really think variations among individual revolvers would be more significant than the design.
 
UN to France..............NO THANKS!

No you keep the UN over there if you don't mind! We have enough problems with short sighted unions and French bureaucracy to keep us going for thousands of years!
Duncan
 
I want to send it to Singapore. It ought to feel right at home there.
 
Move it to Cuba!

I think the best place to move the UN would be to Cuba. No more problems with spies from that route, shoplifters and petty thugs hiding behind diplomatic immunity. :fire: Just think, it might bring some focus to the third world problems that didn't require throwing American money at them. :what: Imagine what they could build in Havana with the proceeds of the sale of the land and buildings in NYC, and still have enough left over to fund relief and humanitarian efforts for the next decade. The present site could be replaced with an indoor shooting sports complex for everything from pellets, to bp guns of all sorts, to centerfire pistols, rifles, and shotguns, hell, even POTATO CANNONS! If you're going to dream, dream big. Hillary could be the 300yd bpcr target! :evil: Yes, I lived through the 60's, your point? :D
 
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Let's see... If we severly restrict guns, then Canada will no longer have a gang problem. Well Mexico severly restricts guns, so we must not have a gang problem here in the U.S. (I think there's a flaw in the thinking there some where, if I could just put my finger on it.)

Saturday night, Coke & brandy? Whew! No wonder!

You have pythons in Africa. It is widely recognized that the only cure for python bite is copious quantities of rum taken internally. The only problem is getting the d**n snake to bite.
 
Hi everyone! I'm new here, this is actually my first post though I have been reading about BP revolvers here for some time. I'm going to buy my first BP revolver next week, a Hege-Uberti Remington 1858. I found it from local gunshop, it's used but looks like to be in good condition, price is 230 euros (280 dollars). A new Pietta Remington is same price but I decided to support my local shop. It also looked nicer than Pietta.

How much costs BP in US? Real stuff I mean. Here in Finland 0.5kg (a little over 1 pound) of BP costs approx. 33 euros (40 dollars). I consider it pretty expensive but I guess there's nothing I can do about it.
 
I'm not familiar with exchange rates but you seem to be up on them. Here, you can get goex black powder for a bit more than $10 with Swiss closer to $20. Sounds like it's pretty expensive there but at least you can get it.

The price on the Uberti sounds about like what we pay here or just a little bit more. I think you will like it. The front sight is dovetailed in and can be moved for adjustment. They also make the front sights extra high so you can file them down to lower raise the elevation. Over here, Uberti and several distributors make replacement parts very available.
 
Price

I have been paying US$15 a pound for Goex.

At the moment genuine black powder is unavailable in my local area. Whether or not it becomes available again remians to be seen. If not, I will have a 30 mile trip to find it.
 
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