Fingers McGee
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I've got a spare Pietta L & R barrel. I got it years ago to build one from an 1851 Navy. Found a couple Ubertis and never used the barrel.
My Dance and brothers, made by Pietta and purchased last month from EMF has a plain cylinder an the original had. I’m guessing this is because the CSA didn’t care about how they looked(no parsley, just meat and potatoes), they just wanted a pistol as fast as they could get there hands on them. I like guns that have a cool story and history behind them.
My next gun purchase will be a Grizwald (unless I can find a .50 Dragoon), it has something me great history behind it.
When you see a mainspring thats questionable would you normally replace it immediately or shoot it until it fails?
You might also just take a sanding block to it and see if you can eliminate the stress riser at the source.Since you have other guns, keep it until it fails unless you really want to swap it out sooner to gain another benefit.
How else will you be able to test it's longevity?
That’s a beauty!Got this revolver yesterday. Looks good and came quick. I'm glad on this one the grips don't have the dark red-orange lacquer as my other new production Ubertis have. I stuck a '58 grip in the corner for comparison.
Hope to get out tomorrow and put some rounds through it. Only have a .375 mold and Hdy. balls of the same size, hopefully they'll work until I can get a .380 ball mold.
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Got this revolver yesterday. Looks good and came quick. I'm glad on this one the grips don't have the dark red-orange lacquer as my other new production Ubertis have. I stuck a '58 grip in the corner for comparison.
Pics always make a thread better...
I am a Pietta 1851 Navy .36 "parts changer" insofar as I want to create Confederate replicas using Pietta off the shelf parts. I have done that with an Augusta Machine Works and a Columbus Firearms Manufacturing Company.
My Pietta L&R (which Pietta has never marketed):
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Just changing parts using a Pietta 1851 Navy .36 as a base donor using a Pietta G&G part round/part octagon barrel/ plain cylinder and better wood.
Regards,
Jim
I shot them an email. We will see if it’s still available@Russell13
50 cal dragoon I mentioned earlier in this thread is for sale.
http://www.erasgonebullets.com/store/product/-50-cal-colt-dragoon-made-by-armi-san-marcos