Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Single Shots Picked up a Ubberti English Style Courtney Stalking Rifle today at a LGS!

Hello fellow Campfire shooters! As the title says, I Was fortunate to find a Uberti made 1885 falling block, Courtney English style Stalking rifle in 303 British! I have been looking around for a nice classic single shot rifle in a classic caliber for awhile now.

I love tinkering with the single shots, especially the falling block actions! I tried a few Ruger number 1’s over the years, and really wanted the stainless 30-30 version they made a couple years ago. I never had any luck getting the number one design to shoot to my expectations. I always hear of fellow shooters giving reports of. MOA performance from them, but I have never seen this yet.��.

I have now tried 5-6 different Browning/Miruko B-78’s and 1885 BPCR’s and they shoot amazing! So when I saw this Uberti single shot with the 1885 falling block style action, I felt more confident to grab one and try it out!

I will give a bit of a range report when the rifle arrives and I get it set up and shooting.

Does anyone here have any experience with these Uberti single shots? What is you thoughts on the quality of the overall build?

I plan to do some load development with the 200 Grain, #314299 Accurate mould bullet. The rifle is listed with a 1:10” twist, so I may only get my velocities up around 1800-1900fps before potential accuracy issues show up. I will give it a try and see what I can get out of it and still shoot decent groups.

Anxious to find out how they shoot and overall thoughts on it.

Great project. Find some LEE bullet sizer dies in diameters that match your rifle's bore. Friends have sized various 8MM and 32 Special soft jacket bullets to fit .303 SMLE bores that (depending on wear) have oversize bores.ALSO paper patched lead 30 caliber cast bullets would be my main test as you can probably get a few donated from other cast boolit addicts.

Lucky you. I suppose .303 stuff is probably easier to find up there than here, although both Grafs and Midway have some ammo and brass.

Those are sweet rifles! Interested in how it shoots.

I want one of these too.

Update? This piques my interest.

I forget who, but we were talking about this rifle a bit ago. Did you get it from Clay?