A .50-95 Centennial in the house ...

[Oregon Bill]

Found this new Uberti online in a shop in Sioux Falls and brought it home yesterday.
I had forgotten all about the Stoeger-Uberti connection, but I haven't been able to locate the date code where I can read it. (Tried removing the forearm and decided not to proceed.) It does have a funny little box that looks like a QR code near the serial number. Just checked, and this does have the fast 1:24-ish twist so it must be fairly new production.
Only have a few pieces of brass on hand, but Glory Be! the bolt closes on an unmodified Starline .50-Alaskan rim.
Tom at Accurate Molds had the 51-350CL mold on the shelf and sent one right out, so I will be ready to roll here shortly.

[Oregon Bill]

Oh yeah, and the bore slugs .513. 

[King Medallion]

Oh come on now! Ya gotta do better with the pictures than that! Congratulations on your new 50/95!

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[Oregon Bill]

King, I promise to work on it tomorrow. 

[King Medallion]

BTW, that's the same mold I got for mine, I size at .515.

[Oregon Bill]

Where did you get your sizer? I was looking at the Buffalo Arms .514 for the RCBS and Lyman lubesizers. I run the RCBS.

[King Medallion]

I lucked out when I put a WTB ad here in the classifieds, someone had one custom bored out to .515, wasn't using it anymore. Mine is a Lyman. I'll look for the add tomorrow when I have more time, getting ready for work now.

[Jeff Michel]

Tom at Accurate will make that mold at any size diameter you want. I too use the same mold, .514 as cast, pan lube.  Your going to enjoy your new rifle, it's a beast. Mine is going to West Virginia in a week for the start of deer season.

[King Medallion]

No luck on who or where I got the .515 Lyman sizer. I remember putting an ad in the Classified and got one within a day. Lucky, right place right time.

[Oregon Bill]

Well, I'll order from BACO if I don't get a response over at castboolits.
Here's the 76.

[Hair Trigger Jim]

Looks like you're ready to take your express rifle on Safari!

[Oregon Bill]

Jim, a surprising number of 76s made it to Africa. Henry Morton Stanley carried one for years.
If I were ever fortunate enough to go back, I can think of nothing I would rather hunt with a .50-95 more than the noble warthog.

[dusty texian]

 Good looking rifle Oregon Bill . Great caliber choice. . Could you recommend a book title for Henry Morgan Stanley ?  Thanks  DT,,,

[Slamfire]

 What's not to like about a "76", nice rifle.

   coffee's ready,  Hotmix.

[Oregon Bill]

Dusty, I just ordered a copy of Tim Jeal's "Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer." It is said to be the best of the biographies. I recently had read his "Explorers of the Nile," which included a much briefer sketch of Stanley and Linvstong among many others, and found him a fine writer.

[dusty texian]

Thank you Sir I’ll look into that one . DT,,,,

[Oregon Bill]

Went ahead and ordered a .515 sizer from BACO yesterday, as they had it in stock, but not the .514.

[King Medallion]

Excellent. If'n ya want to buy commercial bullets, can be had with bp or smokeless lube.
https://www.montanabulletworks.com/product/56-50-spencer-rcbs-82309-350/

[DrummerBoy]

Alrighty Gentlemen’s,
Best wishes for a Prosperous’76 New Year and Good Shooting to All!!
Since Oregon Bill just slugged his new rifle at .513, I’ve been embarrassed to bring this up again BUT my sweetie Miss Lynda is visiting from England, where she WAS in fact double firsted by the Qwayne at Oxford, PLUS she comes from a working class family where her daddy Pete is a retired machinist, so she knows her way around my new DIGITAL calipers….
We both repeatedly got .5165 on my Prasidio with a new slug…
I’m thinking to get Accurate to make a mold at .518…..