Texas Moon
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Anyone here use a conversion cylinder in your 1858 Remington?
Curious about them.
Opinions?
Any brand to avoid?
Curious about them.
Opinions?
Any brand to avoid?
TM, if you are comfortable taking your Remie apart (everyone should be, it is necessary for thorough cleaning), you can easily radius the forward edge of the left bolt arm if an " un-locking" situation occurs with any drop-in conv. cyl you get. This is a fairly common problem with the drop cylinders.
The problem I had with the 6 shot R&D was what 45 Dragoon mentioned. The bolt leg needed some relief because of the shallower bolt stop notches in the cylinder. These are two separate issues. Relieving the bolt leg will not fix an insufficient hand length (hand doesn't push the cylinder far enough for full lockup), and a longer hand will not fix a shallow bolt notch (normal cylinder lockup on full cock, but drops out of battery on trigger pull) problem.
That's great!!! Tells us how it shoots!!!Well, I plugged my new Taylors CC 6-shot into my Pietta 1858 Rem. Slipped in nice and easy and works perfectly with no mods. The bullets sit nicely as well. Gonna shoot it Sunday and see how it checks out.
Range report. Put 50 rounds of Fiocchi 45LCCA 250 grs LRNFP (smokeless powder) through her this morning, knocking down steel pie plates. Very nice, not a hitch.That's great!!! Tells us how it shoots!!!
For what it's worth, the Howell conversion cylinder (and probably all conversion cylinders) made for the Uberti Remmie will also fit and function perfectly in the Armi San Paolo (Euroarms) Remmie (long discontinued). This is good to know if you have one of these older repros.
Manufacturers change their specs over time. I was going by my Euroarms Remmie that I bought new in 1989, and my Uberti Remmie that I bought new many years later. The Howell 5-shot conversion cylinder that I bought in August 2012 fits and functions equally well in both of them. The Pietta cylinder would not fit in either of them, since it is longer.That was not my experience. When I had a Taylor's R&D cylinder fitted to my old EuroArms Remmie (yes, it was made by Armi San Paolo in 1975), a bunch of years ago, the Gunsmith at Taylors told me he took a cylinder for a Pietta, not Uberti, and fit it to my old EuroArms Remmie.
I will check it out. Does it smoke like BP? That's a pre-req.