ThomasT
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I went yesterday to shoot my new to me steel frame 1851 Pietta Navy revolver. I bought this gun from my bud a few months ago. I had to order balls for it and went ahead and got a .375 RB bullet mold at the same time. I started of with a 20gr load of 3F and and the second cylinder had a 25gr charge in it. I could probably get another 2-3grs of powder in there if I tried but I stopped at 25 grains.
This is NOT a light load. It had lots of roar and boom. I was impressed with the gun. It did shoot about a foot high at 50 yards. I am going to do the Mike Beleview trick and dovetail a taller front sight in the barrel so I can set the windage and elevation to hit POA at around 20 yards. Why Colt made these with such poor sights is beyond me. There is no secret to targeting a gun.
Oh well. I will fix that and square the notch in the hammer to get a decent sight picture. One of these guns would never be a first or second choice for a SD gun. But with a good load and usable sights they will do when its all you have.
This is the video I watched on installing a taller front sight.
This is NOT a light load. It had lots of roar and boom. I was impressed with the gun. It did shoot about a foot high at 50 yards. I am going to do the Mike Beleview trick and dovetail a taller front sight in the barrel so I can set the windage and elevation to hit POA at around 20 yards. Why Colt made these with such poor sights is beyond me. There is no secret to targeting a gun.
Oh well. I will fix that and square the notch in the hammer to get a decent sight picture. One of these guns would never be a first or second choice for a SD gun. But with a good load and usable sights they will do when its all you have.
This is the video I watched on installing a taller front sight.