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Well, if a horse broke into my house, I know I would prefer the .45. :p Here's a question: You shoot an intruder twice* in the chest at 15 feet. One hits his chestplate(sternum) and one hits a rib. Which one would be most likely to penetrate and/or 'stop' him: 9mm or .45? I have a older...

Fantastic gun and pics Big G! I too have found the posts here very useful in disassembling my 1860. However, I found re-assembling the backstrap and grip very challenging on my Uberti Colt repro: The wood needs to be compressed a little and my backstrap piece was very slightly bent, requiring...

The two-tone "Old-Silver" always seemed to me like a an attempted replica of the gun Lee Van Cleef used in TGTBTU. He had a Remington with a nickel or white frame and a blued barrel and cylinder. Nice to know it is Pietta. Sometimes retailers don't metion if it's Pietta or Uberti. $250 is a...

Anyone do this on their BP replica revolvers? Any reason not to? Or have I been watching The Good, the Bad and the Ugly too many times? :D

I'm a recent BP convert. Just got my first BP revolver ever, a Uberti 1860 Army, delivered about 2 weeks ago and got all the appropiate cleaning supplies thanks to reading suggestions on this board and others. I must say I find using non-petroleum cleaning products a very pleasant change. For...

Well, forget what I said then. :D Could they be that soft, though? Someone should try it and post here. ;) If you think about it though, .45 Colt is available anywhere as much as .45 ACP, even in cowboy loads. I saw some Black Hills .45 Colt in cowboy configuration at my local Turner's...

Aren't magnum caps just regular caps with more umph? In my limited experience, standard Remington caps seem to have more pop than standard CCI caps and also go off more reliably because they are thinner. I read that #10 caps work better on factory nipples on the Italian replicas and #11 are...

Someone more qualified can correct me, but as I understand it: Jacketed bullets are less compressable than unjacketed lead and so create and require more pressure to exit the barrel. If you shoot a light load there is a greater chance of having a squib with a jacketed bullet than with a lead...

I learned this the hard way: DON'T USE REGULAR SCREWDRIVERS ON YOUR BP REVOLVER. The thinnest common screwdriver probably won't fit properly into the thin slots (at least mine didn't). And at any rate, a good set of specialty gunsmith screwdrivers is a good investment for any gun owner. I was...