"hope they are PERMANENTLY out of stock on their Palmetto line. What a piece of junk it was!"
In spite of all the suckola reviews on the Dixie site about Palmetto products, I ordered one of their Lincoln Derringer kits. Would have bought the Derringer itself but it was out of stock. The kit was a total piece of junk. - none of the parts fit and there were huge flaws in the wood. The tip of the sear crumbled away before I even got it finished and I was able to recut it to work. Metal was so soft, I could have used a nail file. The reason I did it was I needed to shoot one for research. Wouldn't set off caps unless I thinned them some and it was on a smaller scale than the actual Henry Deringer used by Booth.
Later, they got some more ready-mades in stock and also put in some lock parts that were not in the catalog before. The derringer now costs $525. A guy bought one and it broke on the first shot. Somebody deleted his review from the site.
Palmetto has a web page that works some of the time. They brag about servicing all their guns when, in fact, they service none of them. They do not answer e-mail. This has worked just fine for them for about 50 years so, why change now?
