Here's my two "1 of 5000" consecutively numbered, unfired, nickel and gold plated, fully engraved, Pietta Remingtons.
Not really advertising them here, this thread is for show/sharing, but my above special edition Remys are for sale, if anyone is interested e mail or p.m. me. (Don't comment or ask me at this thread).
I'm a shooter and I've decided to not keep guns I don't shoot or that are too collectible to shoot as these are.
I've got to sell them before I fall prey to the urge to shoot them , which would drastically decrease their collector's value.
Here's three pics of my stainless, Pietta, target sighted model. I'm keeping this one. It's a great shooter and being polished stainless, an easy cleanup with hot soapy water. After every shooting I IMMEDIATELY (within a few hours) dunk the entire revolver, brush out the barrel and cylinder chambers and carefully scrub the nipples and exposed portion of the forcing cone and everything else with a soapy toothbrush, rinse it with hot water, let it dry naturally or dry it with a hair dryer, and then using that little red tube on the WD40 can, I spray into the openings in the revolver so I cover the internals with WD40 and drive out any moisture from the cleaning. I don't WD40 the insides of the chambers on the cylinder though, and just let them dry naturally or with a hair dryer.
After several separate outings of shooting, I take it completely apart and clean the internals carefully and then lube them with some non petroleum based lubricant so the lube won't hold BP fouling residue. Sometimes I'll take the nipples out and re-new the anti seize compound on their threads too. I also lessen the tension on the bolt spring some too and then secure the bolt spring bolt with a little blue locktite so it won't vibrate loose. It isn't necessary to use the full tension of that bolt/trigger spring and lessens the ringing line on the cylinder. Less tension on it also means my bolt/trigger springs last longer too. I've had a lot of BP revolvers, but never any before in stainless. This revolver has totally sold me on having stainless ones.
The barrel and loading lever have been cut down and a new dovetail slot cut in line with the barrel made on top of the shorter barrel for re-attaching the front sight and the loading lever latch underneath the barrel has been re-attached too. Barrel is nicely crowned also. A carefully done modification of the target model. I have the R&D conversion cylinder for it also in .45 colt long. Yep, this one's a keeper.