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Busyhands94,one suggestion-do not buy brass framed guns more. My brass framed Pietta Colt blew up under 23 grains load.They also soften a bit every time you fire it.
 
i think next time i will buy a steel framed gun. however if you don't overload them you should be fine. the brass used in modern guns is quite strong and i am sure it's up to the task. if my frame gets all stretched out i might see if i can buy an actual steel frame for my handgun from Pietta, fit everything, make sure it's timed and functions well, etc. however i was shooting 30 grains of APP and a ball with no problems my pistol is still nice and tight and the timing and function is correct. for brass i think i would get a .36, maybe a colt. but not one of those .44 brass 1851s. that's just asking for trouble given the weaker design and the bigger caliber. what brand was the Colt that blew up on you? do you have pictures?
 
I am not sure it is Pietta,but it is sure Italian made in 1960's.I will search for picture on external hard drive,they should be somewhere there.
 
i think the sixties is when the blackpowder boom hit America as a sport, and not a serious weapon like in the civil war and wars before that. from what i hear there was a few companies back then that didn't produce good quality guns. for instance i have heard of steel framed guns from that time period stretching, freaky huh? and for the most part nowadays the guns are proofed and made to withstand tremendous pressures. i bet if you loaded a modern blackpowder revolver with FFFFG it wouldn't catastrophically fail. in fact some of these modern guns are so strong you might be able to safely shoot pre-measured small amounts of smokeless with them. i wouldn't do it though.
 
No, only gun is from sixties,I bought it 5 years ago,it is Italian and never reached America...
After it fired one screw flew out and stabbed my hand...it was very painful.
It did not managed to find Colt's picture,I guess I didn't taken it,but I taken picture of my arm roughly 1 month after the incident.It is on this link : http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/89/colthand.png/ .It is bad quality :(
 
ouch man, did you get a scar? i got a small cut from my NAA .22 LR companion, it was where the cylinder gap was too close to the trigger guard and it cut my hand. i was using 1 grain bullseye, at least the wound didn't have too much powder residue in it. smokeless is cleaner.
 
Yes,scar is here.At the starting there was small puff,and nothing happened,but then I saw entire chamber broke.Then it ignited others and...well,that Colt almost cost me life.And black powder is generally more harmless than that smokeless loads,they are much stronger,except for small caliber ammo.
 
I know,but mine blowed up...it was used before,so there might be a problem.
 
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I believe you, but you were not the original owner. You have no idea how it was abused before you got it.

Busyhands94 said "....and for the most part nowadays the guns are proofed and made to withstand tremendous pressures." That is what I was referring too. They were all proofed even in the 1960's (and much farther back than that). Proofing IS with tremendous pressure. That's the whole point of it!
 
Anyway,you should not get brass framed gun unless you want to have gun like SEVERAL Confederates had (there were steel framed revolver on their side as well) .
 
I can't shoot Isosceles anymore, because of my shoulder. I never liked Isosceles much, anyway. I always liked Weaver for a 2 handed hold. Nowadays, the combat tupperware crowd wants to ridicule you if you shoot a pistol with any hold other than the Massad Ayoob triangle. They also poop a gopher if you don't tuck your strong side elbow down when shooting a rifle. Talk about unnatural feeling. I can't hold my strong side(trigger hand) elbow down when shooting a rifle.
I prefer to shoot my handguns with the 1 handed, bullseye hold, whenever possible.
Maybe I watched Dirty Harry too many times? It just feels natural to me.
 
Levi, I just watched the vid. Loved the music from Il Buono, Il Brutto, ed Il Cattivo.
The spaghetti westerns are serious fun to watch. That one was my favorite of the bunch. Need to watch it again. I'm glad you like movies like that. They'll go well with your BP hobby.
Funny, the one guy asking you if you had any guns that DON'T need BP.
He's obviously never shot a BP revolver before or he wouldn't ask such a question.
I haven't shot smokeless guns since getting into BP. With BP, I get to slow down and enjoy the shoot.
Enjoy your vids. Keep it up.
If I could go back to 17 again, I'd have a huge collection of BP guns by now.
 
@Busyhands: nice video, guns and hat. :)

@Montenegrin: what kind of bullets were you using when the cylinder of your gun blew up? (cylinder was steel, isn't it? and it didn't explode immediatly...) It's the very first time I read about this kind of issue with black powder... I apologize for being curious.
 
Yes,it was steel.I don't know what EXACTLY happened ,since I normaly didn't looked in chamber after I fired first shot,but,in half a second,all other chambers went off,and recoil was VERY HARD.I do not know was it chain fire or something else,but cylinder broke badly,and one screw flew and stabbed in my arm.I remember I was using 23-30 grains.
 
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