BHP FAN
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I got my snubby back! I built a snub useing the Uberti ''Thunderer'' bird's head grip and grip frame,and a Pietta .36 cylinder, frame and barrel.I call it my ''Puberti''...
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got my snubby back!
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Sound's like a fitting name. Have you shot it? Lot of jump and buck? Shouldn't be too awful bad with a .36...Let us know please....
BHP FAN
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Yep,I have shot it,and you're right about the lack of kick,I used the ''Thunderer'' bird's head grip,so what little recoil there is, is lost in the ''roll up'' in your grip under recoil.
BHP FAN
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BHP FAN
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The one on the right is a Cimmaron/Uberti ''Thunderer'' in .357,the one on the left is my ''Puberti'',a sort of Natchez/Avenging Angel hybrid...
messerist
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Dangnabit you varmit! Ya'll didn't hoist a "drool bucket" alert! I love it!
BHP FAN
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Ain't she sweet? I traded that and another revolver for a Trapdoor,a coupla years ago,and regretted it ever since. Now she's home again!
missuramoss
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I cannot WAIT untill the day comes when I'm good enough in this lifestyle we live, where I can undertake projects such as that. Not only is that beautifull BHP, but its inspiring too...Thanks!!
SHIPCHIEF
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WOW!
I was hoping you would get it back.
I have an 1861 navy snub nose on the way. It's supposed to be 'new'.
I'm still looking for an 1860, but who knows, maybe this one will satisfy.
Those grips look like they belong.
I was hoping you would get it back.
I have an 1861 navy snub nose on the way. It's supposed to be 'new'.
I'm still looking for an 1860, but who knows, maybe this one will satisfy.
Those grips look like they belong.
BHP FAN
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Thank you kind sirs,it took me about three hours with a dremel and a swiss file,to get that look.I had some trouble getting the frame and grip frame to meet,and the wood to metal fit just so,and the screw holes were a slightly different pattern,and I had to shorten the hammer spring just a ''smidgen'' [highly technical gun smithing term] but the result is the smoothest sweetest lil' old pistola I could ever want.I may try a Remington front sight on it,I like the ''pinched post'' they have.
Tomahawk674
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That's very unique, makes for a good black powder CCW.
BHP FAN
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Funny you should say that...that's just what I had in mind when I built her.Since then I got the Uberti/Cimmaron ''Thunderer'' in .357, so that's probably what I'd carry now,though.
BHP FAN
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Not yet,but I was thinking the R&D would be just the ticket. I don't think I could bring myself to alter the frame for the Kirst like I did with my Remmie....maybe after Christmas,if I still have any money ...
Thanks for makeing my snubby your first post, and welcome aboard!
Thanks for makeing my snubby your first post, and welcome aboard!
SHIPCHIEF
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BHP;
I think the Black powder forum was my first post here as well. There are so many of us Charcoal Burners around, we just don't all realize there is a place or two to meet. When a new guy shows up, well in my case I felt like a 'new guy', but your kind welcomes and acceptance had me feeling right at home in no-time.
So PoetGrey, let me welcome you as well.....hope you feel welcome.
I think the Black powder forum was my first post here as well. There are so many of us Charcoal Burners around, we just don't all realize there is a place or two to meet. When a new guy shows up, well in my case I felt like a 'new guy', but your kind welcomes and acceptance had me feeling right at home in no-time.
So PoetGrey, let me welcome you as well.....hope you feel welcome.
Great Quote from Mr Wales! thank you for the welcome and may I offer you a cigar....Unforgiven is one of my all time favorites. If I'm not mistaken, the first firearm to make its appearance is an 1860 Army. I sure love that fella's snubby, I'm inspired to build my next delight!
I have found this site's standards breeds a certain clientel whose posting contents are often filled with valuable information. This, coupled with the site's demand for etiquette, combines to offer itself the obvious choice for my very first membership to an online forum.
That does look cool. I'm still researching my next gun, which will most likely be a Uberti Remington (and which is why I spend so much time in the BP forum).
How do you guys load those snubbies now that the loading lever is gone? Do you have to use some kind of press and remove the cylinder?
How do you guys load those snubbies now that the loading lever is gone? Do you have to use some kind of press and remove the cylinder?
That dang little pistol has many of my favorite features...the birds head grip (i just built a Kentucky pistol, chosen because of the grip), the Colt BP barrell but short, and also a fluted cylinder. It will become a curious thing to future historians, fantasizing of course. A beautiful revolver.
BHP FAN
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Thanks guys.Pietta furnishes a brass ''push rod'' that slides through the plunger hole in the frame. You load the powder,thumb seat the ball,then lean your weight on the pistola while the brass push rod seats the ball,or you can dismount the cylinder, and load it in a cylinder loading press.
For the most part, I load my 1860 off the frame. Just laying on the bench and use the cylinder arbor to push the bullets in place over the powder and wad.
I guess since I still have the rammer I could use a rod to hold it in place and use it if I wanted to load on the frame.
With Short Mort, for now I use an extender on the rammer stub.
missuramoss
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I dont know how to do the qoute thing yet...but I agree with ya Shipchief, they make ya feel welcome here and help ya out any way they can. Poetgrey....Glad yer here!
NobleSniper
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A beauty for sure
BHP FAN
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My Thunderer is in .357 mag,though almost all the rest of my six guns are in .45...I did do the conversion, the pistola is a Pietta ,and you nailed it, it is the '61 Navy,fluted,which in real life only about a hundred were made.Pietta calls it a '62 Police,which it is not...the '62 was a five shot .36 built on a '49 pocket Navy frame,as Uberti correctly builds them.Anywho,I mated Cabelas Pietta Snubnose .36 with Cimmaron/Uberti's Thunderer...I call it my ''Puberti''.
The 'smithing was a little more involved than I'd hoped.The Gripframe and grip came already mated to each other,and finished,and I didn't want to disturb the finish,so,I had some work to do.The gripframe was some hundredths of an inch too large,but since I didn't want to mar the existing finish,rather than file down the frame flats,I padded my vise wth leather,and ''sqeezed'' the frame to fit.I then opened the hammer channel back up with a mill bastard file,finishing up with Swiss needle files.Because the Pietta revolver frame or ''reciever'' holes didn't quite match the holes in the grip frame,I had to move the grip frame holes a few thousandths forward to meet the holes in the revolver's frame.Out came the mill bastard again, dressing off the face of the grip and gripframe until they met the reciever squarely.That put the holes as close to lineing up as they were going to get.I then hoggered out each hole just a little to Accept the slightly larger Pietta grip frame to reciever screws,and reassembled the gun.Which was fine,but you could no longer draw the hammer back...the Hammer spring was now ever so slightly too long,from when I squared the grip frame to the pistol frame,so disasssemble,dremel,reassemble...and success!
The 'smithing was a little more involved than I'd hoped.The Gripframe and grip came already mated to each other,and finished,and I didn't want to disturb the finish,so,I had some work to do.The gripframe was some hundredths of an inch too large,but since I didn't want to mar the existing finish,rather than file down the frame flats,I padded my vise wth leather,and ''sqeezed'' the frame to fit.I then opened the hammer channel back up with a mill bastard file,finishing up with Swiss needle files.Because the Pietta revolver frame or ''reciever'' holes didn't quite match the holes in the grip frame,I had to move the grip frame holes a few thousandths forward to meet the holes in the revolver's frame.Out came the mill bastard again, dressing off the face of the grip and gripframe until they met the reciever squarely.That put the holes as close to lineing up as they were going to get.I then hoggered out each hole just a little to Accept the slightly larger Pietta grip frame to reciever screws,and reassembled the gun.Which was fine,but you could no longer draw the hammer back...the Hammer spring was now ever so slightly too long,from when I squared the grip frame to the pistol frame,so disasssemble,dremel,reassemble...and success!
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