1851

Hello. I just 3D-printed a loading lever clamp for my 1851, to prevent the lever from dropping under recoil when using heavy loads. It sure looks goofy but should work fine. The file is on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6112897

I’ve been shooting black powder about two years now and enjoying the sport. With summer approaching, wearing a long coat to conceal a 7.5”-8” barrel is getting impractical and I started thinking about how sleek it would be to turn an 1851 into a cut down 1861 or shorten an 1860 with a simple...

Last trip out to the desert I tested wood penetration of 140 grain .36 conicals over 20.5 grains of Old Eynsford with a cereal box barrier between conical and powder loaded for a month. The results were surprising. While freshly loaded conicals over 21 grains of 4f Goex penetrated 6 boards of...

After a few months of trial and error, I had the best full cylinder of shooting yet with the .36 Uberti London 51. 6/6 shots accurate with no cap jams, cap failures, or dropping loading lever (except after the last shot). This was with 23 grains of Goex 4fg under round ball in paper...

You guys might recall I had previously put in some work on the Uberti 1851. I first took the gun in to a smith to get the arbor reconstructed and tightened with some epoxy to eliminate some wiggling that had started to develop. Then I corrected the arbor length by fitting two #6 steel washers...

I got my first Black Powder Revolver a while back, got it used from a nice old man named "Pat". Being used , I figured it'd be like my first car : have lots of issues I could learn from. So far, this is the only issue I've had and I can't seem to find anything about this issue. It was working...

Hello, today i just got done cleaning a brassy 1851 and as I was clearing the nipples with toothpicks (As per my usual procedure) luckily enough, today was the first time i actually got a bit of toothpick stuck in one. Been doing this for years, you just firmly place the toothpick straight...

So I just got my second 1851 Colt Navy from Cabelas. The first one had totally locked up wedge, so I had to return it. On the new one, the "timeing" (if that's what you call it for the hand) of the hand is very off and makes it hard to load. At half cock, when you rotate the cylinder to load...

A cap rake is a common modification made to open top percussion revolvers in an effort to prevent spent caps from jamming in the hammer recess. I tried to put a cap rake post in one of my 1851s but I did not drill the hole correctly. So I figured out a different way to make a cap rake out of a...

This is my first thread and post though I have spent many hours reading and implementing many of the ideas on this site and a few others. This site and some of the others out there and the users on them have saved me a ton of time and frustration as well as money potentially spent on incorrect...