TheOutlawKid
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Very very nice! Great score!
It’s the last one. I promise.......
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expat_alaska
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That wood is very nice. If you don't want them I will buy them from you. That is the one thing that attracts me to revolvers. If it is a Pietta the wood is most likely European hardwood and not walnut as normal Pietta walnut is quartersawn straight grain. What is the date code? It must be CN/2015 or newer looking at the shape/configuration.
This is my fantasy Pietta 1851 Navy .36 Belt Dragoon with a grip I purchased on Ebay that has nice figure but is hardwood, not walnut.
Regards,
Jim
This is my fantasy Pietta 1851 Navy .36 Belt Dragoon with a grip I purchased on Ebay that has nice figure but is hardwood, not walnut.
Regards,
Jim
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Russell13
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That looks great. If I get a new set I will give you these for free
expat_alaska
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I surely won't turn that offer down! I have a few post-2014 Pietta 1851 Navies that could use a wood upgrade, particularly my G&G.
I will pay postage and a few more Washingtons in return.
PM me if it comes to fruition.
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Jim
I will pay postage and a few more Washingtons in return.
PM me if it comes to fruition.
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Jim
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I can’t decide. What would you guys go for. I’m thinking of ordering some grips from tombstone. Ive always liked ivory grips on a black gun but I was thinking maybe going all black with the silver Texas star on the side
like this in ivory or black
like this in ivory or black
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Looks good to me
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I vote for the ivory.
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Wow. This is my new favorite gun. So nice to shoot. I love it
Guess I’m a Rebel now.
Shoots more point of aim then my others. So easy to get caps on it.
Guess I’m a Rebel now.
Shoots more point of aim then my others. So easy to get caps on it.
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Whats the load youre using?
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I gotta say...thats some really good accuracy. I can shoot the same and even a little better....when i stand 2 feet from the target that is. Hehe. So did you ever get around to making .44/.45 cal lube disks out of the lube sheet i sent you?
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Yes I did and they worked great. It took me a while. I was using a .45 brass casing, gonna go to harbor freight this week and get some punches to make the job easier. That was 20 grains of powder, I’m gonna range from 20-25 and see where the best results fall.
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I am a diehard Pietta 1851 Navy "type" revolver fan, but Pietta has it so wrong in this case..
Excerpts from your Pietta link:
The Dixie Gun Works .44 caliber version of the Dance revolver is manufactured in Italy by F.lli Pietta and closely duplicates the distinctive styling of the famed Texas-built Confederate pistols. Pietta makes this otherwise plain looking revolver a handsome reproduction with a color casehardened frame, loading lever, hammer and trigger, and a decent rendition of period bluing on the barrel and cylinder. The original Dance revolvers had blued frames.
The frame, like the originals is brass. I am assuming the "frame" is the grip frame as Pietta otherwise states the "frame" is color cased.
The grips on the Dance were one-piece oiled walnut with a longer and more curved backstrap than the Colt Navy and fit the average hand just a little sweeter but still with less purchase than an 1860 Army. Does anyone believe that Pietta would create an "intermediate" grip frame between the 1851 Navy and the 1860 Army just for this revolver? I think not, and photos show that the gripframe is plainly of Navy configuration. The original Dance .44 revolvers may have had a Colt Army gripframe for the .44 but not the .36 .
As a military sidearm the guns of John Henry Dance & Bros. stood in well for the Union’s Colt Navy. His name was James Henry Dance and he was a Lt. with the Texas Confederate forces against the Union..
There is a very long story concerning why Pietta only produces Dance .44 caliber revolvers and no .36 caliber revolvers. It all revolves around a lawsuit in the mid 1990's. Read it here, my thread:
https://blackpowdersmoke.com/revolvers/index.php/topic,560.0.html
Tony commissioned another production of the .36cal. Dance revolver with Pietta in 1996. These were to be marketed by Dance Firearms Co. and were to be so marked on the barrel. After a breach of the contract with Pietta, production of the .36cal. Dance revolver, marked as such, stopped with #00047. Pietta reportedly sold several of these Angleton Texas marked revolvers on the European market in violation of the contract between Tony Gajewsky and Pietta, thus the lawsuit.
And that is why one sees few 1862 Dance and Brothers .36 repros on the market.
Regards,
Jim
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Nice group. Pics please of the gun that shot it.
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I’m thinking the ivory would look cool but now there are three different ivory’s. Lol. Such tough decisions
TheOutlawKid
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Id go for natural ivory or aged ivory...but thats me.
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One member ordered white Tombstone grips and then ended up soaking them in strong tea overnight.
The photos are gone but they looked very good, perhaps some spotting. --->>>> https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/ivory-grips-soaked-in-tea.526263/
Then a month later he ordered another set of aged Ivory Tombstone grips for another gun.
madcratebuilder also applied a tan stain to age his Ivory grips that came from Dixie. --->>> https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/1860-army-faux-ivory-grips.481015/#post-5978678
Below are sltm1'sTombstone grips. --->>> https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...lt-1860-open-top-pietta.831122/#post-10733028
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Perhaps I’m being to picky but these grips aren’t fitted very well. when I first got the gun it was very noticeable but after a day of shooting it the edges don’t seem quite as sharp. Still looking into replacing them anyways just because I want a different
I have a 51 and 60 Pietta that grips look just like yours drives me crazy. I did a quick job on the 51 grips got all the proud spots knocked down and touched up the finish. I am stripping the 60 grips tomorrow I am going to take the Pietta curve off the back of the grip and thin the sides the right a little more than the left.
robhof
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Had the same problem with some of my ASM's and used soft pencil to mark overage on back strap and worked carefully with Dremmel till about right then finished with hand work and med to fine to ultra fine for final touch.
robhof
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I did remove grip from grip frame to do dremmel and finishing work, re applied and removed several times till desired results achieved.
TheOutlawKid
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Hmm..looks like the handle may not be original. Could still be...but ive never seen it like that on the back side of a pietta. The sides on all my piettas sit a little proud..just like yours...but just not as mucj. It can be sanded down easily though and you can just rebuff the brass.
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