Howdy to the fire.
Just went to the annual Plainfield Raid put on by the River City Regulaors in Davis, CA. Had a great time. As it would happen, the brass front sight fell out of my Uberti Henry on the first stage. I shot it clean, but the targets were big and close, so I just point shot at them.
I excused myself from the posse, an back to the Suttler's row where ther famous (or infamous) Tex Jack Lehman, gunsmith and engraver, was set up. I left the Henry with him, aranging for him to replace the departed front sight with a piece of Mexican Peso. I returned to the posse, already starting the next stage, and explained my plight to the posse leader. I told him that I would just have to use my original 1860 .56-56 Spencer as a main match rifle until Frank got the Henry fixed (probably just this one stage). It was fine with the posse, though I voluntarily took a procedural since I could only shoot the three large targets of the 5 rifle targets. The other two were small, and the 375 grain slug at 1150-1200 FPS would know them into oblivion.
To make a long story short, the Spencer performed admirably and flawlessly, shooting the stage clean. Having done a lot of Spencer shooting lately, I surprised even myself on how quickly (relatively speaking, of course) I effected