well, I took the HRA 1860 to an annual match, and she shined! It was "Peaceful's End of Track" at Railroad Flat, CA. My shooting pard shared the rifle with me, so she did over 200 main match rounds, and another 20 or so on side matches.
SHE SHOT CLEAN! The smallest targets were 3"x6" tombstone targets that were the last of five progressively smaller tombstones in a knock down rack. The rack was 6 feet deep, at about 15 yards away, making the last target was 17 yards. Ammo was Black Hills factory, reloads with 9.0 grains Unique, and reloads with 7.0 of Trail Boss. My pard has an Uberti Henry at home (didn't have any 45 loaded for it, so he shared my 44-40), and marveled at how much slicker the HRA 1860 is.
1860 In the Wild....
Check the empty in the air!
I actually shot the entire match clean, but had the RO foil that by giving me a Procedural. As I was shooting the knock down tombstones, one fell sympathetically just as I was shooting at it, so I hit the next one, making me "shoot out of order!"
It was totally chicken sh*t, but he was a Nazi about it....That cost me a clean match pin.