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Uberti 1849 Pocket with Conversion Cylinder - Video


Jed Irons

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Hey, all,

 

I recently acquired both a Uberti 1849 Pocket Model and a conversion cylinder.  Just loaded up my first .32 S&W black powder loads and tried my hand at my first edited video on YouTube.  Thought you might enjoy it.  It's short!  And, as far as I can find, there is only one other video on YouTube featuring the 1849 firing cartridges, and mine is the only one with the "gated" cylinder version (though they don't actually have gates).

 

Some further background for those interested.  I bought both .315" Hornady lead balls and #4 buckshot (.330") on the advice of a quick internet search.  I had a hard time getting the .315" balls to stay seated in the case.  The bullet seater kept grabbing them.  I might be able to adjust the seating die further to make it crimp before it puts too much pressure on the bullet, so that the grab of the crimp will be stronger than the grab of the bullet seater, but that'll be another day.

 

In the meantime, I had good luck seating the .330" shot, and these are a better size for the bore anyway.  But, as you can see in the video, a thin layer of lead would always overlap onto the outside of the case.  The cartridges sat fine in the cylinder, with no extra force needed to seat them, so I left them that way, but after firing a full cylinder, I noticed only a few of my remaining rounds would sit flush.  I discovered while cleaning the cylinder later that the extra ring of lead from those rounds was jamming the cylinder, so, from now on, I will use a razor to slice that extra lead off.

 

I was surprised how accurate this gun is!  Not only is it tiny, but I'm shooting round balls in an oversized barrel, and I was hitting what I was aiming at!  All in all, this is a fun little gun that I'm glad I picked up.  It would be pretty fun to get two of these running and pair them at a match with my 10 gauge 1887.

 

 

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Great video.

 

A friend brought his to the match today. Really nice looking pocket pistol.

 

You do however have your buckshot designations wrong. The below sizes are nominal

 

#4 buckshot  0.240

#1 buckshot  0.300

0 buckshot   0.320

00 buckshot  0.330

 

Track of the Wolf sells lead balls sized to 0.319  Should work really well in your cases.

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I had one of these little jobs at one time with a conversion.  Neat little gun and kind of sorry I traded it off.

As for using at a match, technically considered a pocket pistol and I think there are rules about using those as main match guns but then again I might be wrong.

Palmetto (Italy) used to make an 1849 with a 5.5" barrel which I almost thought about snatching one up and then having that barrel fitted to the Uberti with conversion.  Never got around to that either before Palmetto went belly up.  They made some neat guns, but QC was pretty bad from what I hear.  Wish Uberti or one of the other Italian reproduction specialist companies would take some of the old Palmetto line up like the Colt-Roots pocket revolver and the reproduction 44 caliber 1855 revolving rifle.  I believe Kenny Howell considered making conversions for both of those at one time, but did not get to them before Palmetto went out of business.

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