Rebuilding the Uberti 1885 High Wall - A Century and Counting, Episode 1

Welcome to the first episode of “A Century and Counting,“ where we put our Malcolm series vintage reproduction scopes on vintage rifles, then shoot at things very far away. Each episode we’ll be looking at a particular topic in the field of vintage guns - starting here with assembling the first rifle we’ll be using for the series. (Previous episode - Introduction) (Next Episode - Testing the Rifle) The Uberti 1885 High Wall. 00:00 The Introduction This rifle had been a demo rifle for shot show, and someone removed the firing pin to make it safe. In the course of moving everything around after shot show, we lost the tiny bag with the firing pin and spring. The firing pin and spring are buried in the heart of the rifle - to access the space, everything else has to be removed from the rifle. Time to pull the whole thing apart, and put it back together. 00:57 Starting from Pieces Everything was bagged and tagged when I disassembled the rifle, though I didn’