If you remember, last month I had trouble hitting anything with the new Cimarron/Uberti 1866 carbine because the front sight was loose (threads stripped on band) and it was too tall. Cimarron replaced the front sight ASAP, and I trimmed it and dialed it in.
Today was the first match I used it since the fix. Because of the "Friends of the Chipmunks and Bunny Butt Lickers" there is an injunction against our club forcing us to stop shooting steel targets. We adapted, and our 25 yard rifle targets are the 6" round poly hanging targets, full pop cans, and clay pigeons, all on the 25 yard berm.
Today, the rifle part of the stages was the same. You had ten shots to do one shot each on the five 6 inch poly targets, then a pop can (they blow up nice when sitting in the sun). If you have extra shots left, then a clay pigeon for a -5 seconds bonus on your score.
Every stage, I shot the same: with the 1866 I hit the 5 polys at 25 yards with the first five shots, Then with the 6th shot, I blew up a pop can on the 25 yard berm, and with the 7th I shattered a clay pigeon on the same berm. Had to dump the last three shots into the berm.
The shooting is done standing, offhand. It was like I could not miss with the carbine. The load was a .44-40 case with a 200 grain Bear Creek Moly coated bullet over 7.0 grains of Trail Boss. It was so much easier to hold it steady than the 9.5 pounds Henry I have been shooting.
My pistols are a Pietta 1858 converted to .45 with Kirst Konverter and ejector rod, and the other is a Pietta 1860 converted to .45 with a Kirst "Saber River" engraved Konverter and ejector. Both I milled the loading channel in. The load is a 200 grain bullet over 5.5 grains of Trail Boss. Duplicates the .46 Rimfire the original 1858 NMA were converted to in 1869. I shot clean with them also, and even got some bonus points hitting a 1 quart pop bottle on the 25 yards berm with the Remmy.