1860 army old silver engraved at 25m

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Hello,

This is a recent pietta which has been unblued ; all engraving are similar to the commemorative version. The grip is ivorylike with concho.




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A fine shooter and a pleasure for the eyes.....

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That is a beautiful Army Flibuste!!! That 1860 Army looks like it likes Minies as much as it likes round ball. Who did all that work?
 
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That gun looks too nice to shoot.And that is some fine shooting there. Was that offhand or with a rest? Where did you get the mold for those flat nose lee conicals, is it a custom mold? That bullet looks just like what some of us have been talking about for the perfect bullet to use for hunting.
 
The bullets are not minie but standard 45colt from LEE mould (200grs). However with these bullet it is not recommended to shoot with full BP loads because of stress on structure.

All engraving are from Pietta ; my modifications are :

- debluing and polishing
- screwhead engraving and bluing
- ivorylike grips from another pietta model and concho inserting
- a lot of mechanical improvements because there were some flaws (alignment, sights, cylinder chambers reaming etc..)

As far as I remember these PICs were made when shooting 2 hands hold.


But hereunder is anotherone shooting duelist with balls and 15grs BP: 12 balls / 10 within drawing



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AHaa.....I have an enrgaved '51 Marshall from Pietta, but the screwheads aren't cut and engraved or blued. I notice that because I cut, blued, and engraved my scewheads on my version of a flintlock Masonic rifle that I dabbled in engaving some components.
What graver do you use??

p.s.
Now I remember that I cut those screwheads with a small file, and then heat-treated them to a nice blue color. It's been a while since I did it.
 
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Flibuste,
It looks like there is a fair amount of relieving of metal under the rammer. Did you do that or did Pietta? It looks a little closer to how the originals were shaped to allow a conical to fit under the rammer. I've never seen a Pietta Colt in 44 cal that you could rotate a conical under the rammer but yours has the room. My old ASM Hartford 186o allow for the LEE 200gr conical to fit with a little jiggling byt the Piettas I used to own never would allow a conical. Also, the hammer face looks like it has been reshaped a little too, zat true?
 
Hellgate, i had the same problem with my pietta 1860 and the lee bullet. I used the small drum sander and a dremel,i think its 1/4 in, and opened it up.I didnt have to change the outside or contour of the opening.It hit mostly on the top around where the cylinder pin is and it is rounded inside the opening so all i had to do was take some off where its rounded. Didnt really have to remove much but now the Lee .450/200 will rotate through real nice. The bullets he is useing above i think may would need a little more removed for them to clear and they not having a reduced heel on them i bet he is loading them off gun.
 
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