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Muley Gil Newbie Offline Posts: 9 Joined: Jan 28^th, 2016	Uberti rolling block carbine Feb 14^th, 2016 at 8:18pm	Print Post
	About 12 years ago, I bought a Uberti .357 rolling block carbine. It is a handy little bugger. I would have preferred a .32-20, but oh well. Does anyone else here have one?


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Muley Gil Newbie Offline Posts: 9 Joined: Jan 28^th, 2016	Re: Uberti rolling block carbine Reply #1 - Feb 20^th, 2016 at 10:42am	Print Post
	Well, there seems to be no love for the Uberti RB. What about the Star rolling block? I almost bought one in .30-30 about 20 years ago, but the deal fell through. I'm looking at a Navy Arms .45-70 roller. Anyone own one of those?


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calledflyer Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3505 Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: Uberti rolling block carbine Reply #2 - Feb 20^th, 2016 at 12:27pm	Print Post
	A good many years ago I had a friend that owned both a Navy Arms roller and a H&R trapdoor carbine. We knew little of shooting 45-70, or any big time single shot rifles at the time, and he limited his ammunition to the factory lead bullets available at the time. My recollection is that the H&R was far superior. Maybe the sights, or who knows, but we always preferred "getting" to be the one with the trapdoor in a contest. Plenty of fun was had back in them days. These were the guns that made me decide to buy my first single- a high wall that is still doing very nicely.


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frnkeore Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 7183 Location: Central Point, OR 97502 Joined: Jun 16^th, 2010	Re: Uberti rolling block carbine Reply #3 - Feb 20^th, 2016 at 12:47pm	Print Post
	I didn't have any of the listed rifles but, I did have a Uberti RB Baby carbine in 25/20 WCF. It shot very well for a factory rifle. I shot it breech seat and at 100 yards, it would shoot just over 1" with Unique and just under 1" with B'dot. One of the B'dot loads shot 4 of the 5 into .38" I liked the little rifle and if I were a hunter, I would have kept it but, I couldn't bond with the 21" long, factory barrel so, I traded it off. Frank

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Rebel Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4292 Location: Rockets and Race Cars Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: Uberti rolling block carbine Reply #4 - Feb 20^th, 2016 at 12:57pm	Print Post
	My H&R trapdoor consistently blew open till I modified it. Aaron

	WARNING: This post may contain material offensive to those who lack wit, humor, common sense and supporting factual or anecdotal evidence. Let's Go Sonny!
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calledflyer Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3505 Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: Uberti rolling block carbine Reply #5 - Feb 20^th, 2016 at 1:30pm	Print Post
	Rebel, I have heard of the H&R problem. For the life of me, I cannot recall this one ever doing so. If it did, maybe I would have liked the roller more, huh?


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kytx Participating Member Offline Posts: 10 Joined: Dec 27^th, 2015	Re: Uberti rolling block carbine Reply #6 - Feb 21^st, 2016 at 5:03pm	Print Post
	I've got one at Beretta, being re-barreled. It came with a miscut chamber. It was accurate, just ruined the brass. Oh! Its a .30-30.

	The older I get, the better I was. Between East Tx. and East Ky.
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KWK Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 398 Location: USA Joined: Jul 12^th, 2004	Re: Uberti rolling block carbine Reply #7 - Mar 1^st, 2016 at 12:16am	Print Post
	kytx, how was the chamber cut? I'm also curious if the wee action was prone to stretching the .30-30 brass.

	Karl
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kytx Participating Member Offline Posts: 10 Joined: Dec 27^th, 2015	Re: Uberti rolling block carbine Reply #8 - Mar 3^rd, 2016 at 7:44pm	Print Post
	The chamber looked like they had started out of alignment with the bore and then backed out and restarted.

	The older I get, the better I was. Between East Tx. and East Ky.
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KWK Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 398 Location: USA Joined: Jul 12^th, 2004	Re: Uberti rolling block carbine Reply #9 - Mar 4^th, 2016 at 8:14pm	Print Post
	You'd think the guy firing the proof loads would have noticed that. I corresponded once with an Aussie who had a rimfire Uberti which the factory had botched. As I recall, the extractor was malformed, just where the firing pin was to strike the rim. They are a very tidy little gun. I've long thought of getting a Hornet and converting it to one of the .25 Hornets. All the reports of so-so quality have kept me away.

	Karl
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