1873 winchester .45 colt at the saloon.

[fortyshooter]

Took my Uberti/Winchester rifle down to the range this afternoon to plink on the Bullseye Saloon targets.
From 20 yds. after knocking out the cowboys I went to work on the pair of Aces.

After the session I noticed the knock over bottles were taking some damage from those 255 gr. 45 slugs.
Not the steel itself but the welds were starting to break on a couple where the bottle is welded to the knock over mount.
On one the mount had twisted a bit from a side hit to the bottle but weld had held. Those slow 850 FPS .45 Colt loads pack a good punch!

Brought the two bottle racks home to beef the mounts up.

Note...towards the end of my shooting I started developing a health issue which I will talk about in the Lounge section.

[North Country Gal]

Very impressed with both your targets and you're shooting.

[RanchRoper]

Nice shootin', looks like a good time to me.

[BigAl52]

Looks Good Forty

[Rifletom]

Nice shootin', looks like a good time to me.

RR, question. Your load of 7.0gr Universal and 250gr cast bullet, are you getting sooty cases when firing? I tried that load today and the cases were very sooty on one side. Curious. Thanks.

[RanchRoper]

Yup. Same.

[Rifletom]

Thanks RR.

[RanchRoper]

Seems less so with the 200 gr lead.