Low inventory or no inventory

I would!! (Did) lol!!!


I got this Pietta made Cimarron Frontier and made it a convertible 45C / 45acp. It's nuts!!

Mike

It certainly seems to be the case that production has hit a void and does not seem to be recovering. Caps are becoming difficult to find in stock and black powder is becoming a homemade industry. I got all the revolvers I’m ever likely to want in storage. Every year or two, I’ll pull a new one out and put a well used one back in the plastic after a thorough wash and oiling. Luckily, these guns are easy to keep running with commonly available supplies once you have the gun itself and a few spare parts for good measure.

Most definitely would buy, if I couldn't find what I'm after locally. Biggest problem is finding shooting components, thanks to that idjit in the WH.

I searched high and low for a 3rd dragoon. Finally found one, their last one, at Lodgewood. Got it last week. It's a 2021 date and very nicely fitted and timed with a snug .007 gap. Shoots great.

Everytime i think about selling one i think about the scarcity of them these days and decide its better suited in my safe

The upside of the inventory shortages is the ease of getting big money for any surplus firearm(s) you would like to sell. I listed some revolvers on Gunbroker last year that went for way more than expected.

It's often been the same for gun parts I periodically sell on eBay -- and I'm not one of those guys who parts out new guns for inflated buy-it-now prices. I just list what I don't need, usually in auction mode, for reasonable starting prices.

I've been done buying firearms (at least that's the lie I keep telling myself. 10 guns later.....) and I am only focused on further building up loaded ammo & reloading component inventory.

LonewolfMcquade said:

I've been done buying firearms (at least that's the lie I keep telling myself. 10 guns later.....

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I have that same habit, and more guns than I need. More of even the same basic things, especially in .36 caliber.

Yeah, the shelves are pretty bare from what I can see. No idea when that will change. Glad I grabbed what I wanted when it showed up.

At this point I am just looking forward to the snow melting so I can go shoot. I imagine that some time in the future the shelves will have more on them and we can avail ourselves of it. In the meantime, I need to get busy casting some minies to try out, set down and produce a big ol pile of 454 and 375 balls for my buddy and I to use, etc.

I have been on the search for a 4" Ruger GP100 for almost a year. The ones I did find were north of the $800 price range. Ouch. I have time on my side so I will just wait it out.

It seems to me that revolver production has all but stopped because there are more machining and fitting steps. They also bring in less profit margin as compared to the plastic guns commonly found on store shelves. They will return eventually but I am afraid the prices may not come down. Get one while you can before the price exceeds the $1000 mark for production revolvers.

I've been waiting since May of 2021 for a Remington .31 Pocket revolver and the seller finally suggested I forget it. That's a shame really because many people worldwide bought them for wonderfully fun afternoons, all over the dream of a few elites to become tyrants. Plus business has been so bad we can hardly afford such things now, and we are lucky to still be IN business.

Titanic demand coupled with the deadliest plague in human existence (yeah right) has put a real damper on it.

Still, I’ve been able to snag an Army and Navy mode and have close to 30 lbs of powder and 1500 caps for them. Should be enough to weather the storm until things return to normal.

I would have liked to have had an 1858 stainless. Oh well.

I had the intention late 2020 to buy the percussion Lyman Plains pistol figuring that cartridge gun and ammo situation was not going to improve thanks to the Dems stealing the election and running the table. Of course I was right about that, guns and ammo and primers dried up and prices went thru the roof, but I held off on the Lyman pistol because I wouldn't shoot it until Spring, so I'd wait a few months before buying.

That was a bad idea as it went out of stock not soon after and I had to wait until last week to order when they got back in stock.

At least it appears the Italian companies are getting back into production, so I think the black powder situation with gun availability is going to improve a lot this year. What remains to be seen is how caps are going to be available because it seems the companies that make them are all in the US and they're more focused on making primers, not percussion caps.

I watched midways stock all last year to snag this Uberti stainless 1858.

When it came in stock they inflated the price a good bit, but i bought it anyway and im glad i did because in less then 5 or 10 minutes they were sold out.

Just received a Pietta “1858” in sheriff length from Old South Firearms. They had some items in stock, at least! At Midway, I usually put an email alert on out of stock items, but you have to order FAST when you get the notice.

Stocks are definitely low. I suspect the no-4473 nature of black powder arms has exacerbated the situation, and that some of this is still panic buying.

Dirty Bob

Back in 2015 this is all the BP handguns I had:

Now that I have twice as many I don't get anxious anymore.

ClemBert said:

Pietta or Uberti?

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No real preference, have one Pietta and one Uberti now, though the Uberti 1860 just feels better than the 1851 Navy Pietta. I just wanted one that worked.

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Back in 2015 this is all the BP handguns I had:
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Now that I have twice as many I don't get anxious anymore.

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Nice collection, sir very nice.

ClemBert said:

Saw a used Pietta 1858 SS 8" with percussion cylinder and 45 Colt conversion cylinder for $479 at the local gunshop today.

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I gave 100 more then that for just the stock uberti.
Sounds like a sweet deal

I've been looking for a Pietta 1858 12 inch Buffalo for years. Should have bid on the one I saw that was stainless and came with a shoulder stock.

Old South sells the steel frame version! Out of stock, though.

Bob