I don't shoot my C&B guns much at all, but my exotic favorite is the Rigdon and Ansley. Fingers has a couple of them that are perfect.
I had a neighbor machinist cut extra bolt stop slots in a no-pins plain cylinder.
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Jim
Cutout for helping to remove spent caps?
All of my Pietta 1851 Navy .36 "type" pistols have that from the factory. Manufactured from 2014 [CM] and newer. It is not a big cutout but it does help.
Goon has a much better method with his cap post. And if you watch any Duelist videos (Mike Bellivieuw sp?), upon firing the round, he turns the pistol skyward and to the right to expel any caps/fragments before re-cocking the pistol and never has a problem with those.
Jim
All of my Pietta 1851 Navy .36 "type" pistols have that from the factory. Manufactured from 2014 [CM] and newer. It is not a big cutout but it does help.
Goon has a much better method with his cap post. And if you watch any Duelist videos (Mike Bellivieuw sp?), upon firing the round, he turns the pistol skyward and to the right to expel any caps/fragments before re-cocking the pistol and never has a problem with those.
Jim
If you are that concerned about correct 1851 Navy .36 pistols, you can spend all of your time and life savings to collect all of what Sam Colt produced, and that is a whole lot more money than I have. I noticed that you have not even shown an 1851 with a cap groove in the recoil shield, as well as all of the grip variations. The Confederate 1851 copies are a completely different bunch, no matter if it is a Leech and Rigdon, a Charles Rigdon, or a Rigdon and Ansley.
The Pietta Griswold and Gunnison copy in .36 is in its own world. Very accurate but not a true copy. These are all Italian.
Suggestion: buy a copy of '51 Colt Navies by Nathan L. Swayze (1967) and have a look.
It will be an eye opener.
Have a good night, sir.
Jim
I am not concerned about the variations, I was merely asking if your Rigdon and Ansley has the cap cutout as I cannot see from the low resolution image you posted. It's my understanding that the cap cutout appeared when Rigdon took over operations. I hope I have not offended you by asking the question. Just trying to have a discussion about that nice firearm of which you provided a photo.
Until you pointed this out, I never noticed it before.Uberti uses those, Pietta does not.
"I still want to see a replica 1851 Navy with a cap groove in the right recoil shield. Colt did not use it very long."
Uberti uses those, Pietta does not. The few old Arm San Marcos '51s I've seen also did not.
I've never been entirely sure just exactly how this feature was intended to be used .....
"I still want to see a replica 1851 Navy with a cap groove in the right recoil shield. Colt did not use it very long."
Uberti uses those, Pietta does not.
You lay a cap on the groove opening towards the nipple and use your index finger to slide the cap onto the nipple.