Excellent Uberti 61 Navy. Over time, I have relieved the clearance between the right side of the cylinder/breach and conservatively polished the ratchet. Other than that, I have opened the hammer notch for greater visibility. It is now very smooth, functions perfectly and hits just under point of aim at 25 yards.
I set out today to fiddle with the shoulder stock but first fired off six rounds one handed from 25 yards. Purpose was to make sure the chambers were actually free of oil before going to the stock. This was a great group. Of course, it would have been a lot nicer if all six shots were in it. I shooter errored one of them off the target entirely.
One of the big draws for the 60 army that came right before this one was the readily attachable sholder stock. The US Army liked that and approved the army as soon as it came out. The stocks were placed in cavalrymen's saddle bags to convert the revolver into a carbine when the troop was dismounted and gone to cover. The 61 navy has the same arrangement. In practice, a good revolver shot standing and using two hands can produce the same level of accuracy as with the shoulder stock attached and in a steady position. What is gained in steadiness is lost trying to focus on the fuzzy up-closeness of the hammer notch with stock attached.
I managed five out of six at 75 yards seated on the ground. The miss was still on paper but not on the silhouette. At 100 yards, still fighting the sights, I hit the thing 4 out of six shots. Should have been better and I would like to partially blame a gusty, multi directional wind.
Load in both cases was a Warren/Ozark nominal .380" ball over 22 grain/vol equivalent of Pyrodex P. This is a full charge that will get you mid to high 1000 fps velocity averages.
I set out today to fiddle with the shoulder stock but first fired off six rounds one handed from 25 yards. Purpose was to make sure the chambers were actually free of oil before going to the stock. This was a great group. Of course, it would have been a lot nicer if all six shots were in it. I shooter errored one of them off the target entirely.
One of the big draws for the 60 army that came right before this one was the readily attachable sholder stock. The US Army liked that and approved the army as soon as it came out. The stocks were placed in cavalrymen's saddle bags to convert the revolver into a carbine when the troop was dismounted and gone to cover. The 61 navy has the same arrangement. In practice, a good revolver shot standing and using two hands can produce the same level of accuracy as with the shoulder stock attached and in a steady position. What is gained in steadiness is lost trying to focus on the fuzzy up-closeness of the hammer notch with stock attached.
I managed five out of six at 75 yards seated on the ground. The miss was still on paper but not on the silhouette. At 100 yards, still fighting the sights, I hit the thing 4 out of six shots. Should have been better and I would like to partially blame a gusty, multi directional wind.
Load in both cases was a Warren/Ozark nominal .380" ball over 22 grain/vol equivalent of Pyrodex P. This is a full charge that will get you mid to high 1000 fps velocity averages.
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