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  First of all, you're not going to thrash your revolver. As 45 Dragoon alluded to, these revolvers (Uberti's, et al.) are designed for and chambered in 45 ACP whose pressures are allowable as high as 23,000 psi.

  As to your load with Unique, as others have said, 8.5 gr. is a good balanced load but you can easily go up to 9.0 or a bit more depending on the bullet and how much of it is in the case. (Very important)

  Although I've used a LOT of Titegroup in my .41 Magnum's, I've no experience with it in the 45 Colt. www.loaddata.com points to around 6.0-6.2 gr. as pretty much duplicating the ballistics of the original load (250 gr. bullet @ ~850 fps).

 My personal favorite powders for such loads are Red Dot and 700-X. 6.0 gr. of either will yield 800-850 fps with a 250 gr. lead bullet.

 Uberti-produced firearms chambered in .44 caliber cartridges have a groove diameter of .429". A .430" diameter bullet will work fine in such a barrel.

  With the toggle link actions one has to be careful with their overall cartridge lengths. You can usually get by with o.a.l.'s that are a little on the short side, but if the o.a.l. is too long the cartridge won't feed. If I remember correctly 1.6" is the absolute maximum o.a.l. for the '66's and '73's.

 You could probably work up a load for the 225 gr. FTX, but the simplest thing to do if you must use a jacketed bullet is use a 200 gr. Hornady. My Hornady manual doesn't have a jacketed data for the 44-40 in a rifle, but in a revolver their maximum load with Unique is 9.8 gr.

 If you want to keep things really simple just order something like MBC's 200 gr. RNFP lead bullet. I've loaded a similar bullet (220 gr.) in my 1866 Uberti 44-40 Sporting Rifle with 9.5 gr. of Unique. MV was well north of 1300 fps and the load was quite accurate even at 200 and 300 yds.

 

 The same bullet only with black powder works perfectly for me on whitetail-

 

Quote from: Major 2 on Yesterday at 06:43:26 PMHappy for you both, please post photos   
  New gun days are even all giddy. for this humble bystander 

I couldn't agree more!  It's actually kind of embarrassing how I excited I get when people I've never met get a new gun!

Griff

Happy for you both, please post photos   
  New gun days are even all giddy. for this humble bystander 

I got a wide groove analogous to the big lube mold in 44-40 from accurate.

Sold!

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This is a neat little SA, great for drills, woodswalking and potting armidillos with cheap steel case 9mm.  I have a lot of this stuff, and even more 9mm range brass if handloads are needed.  These are well timed with what look like Wolff springs.

But what really brings me here is that a few weeks back I picked up a Pietta .357 cylinder from Cimarron, and it dropped right it, no smithing needed, and has shown excellent accuracy with .38 handloads.  Pietta is really making a nice revolver these days.