I had a stainless that I loved to shoot, cleaned up easy. It got stolen in a home invasion while we were at work. About a week later, I found a blued used one in almost new finish except for a little rust pit on the outside of the barrel just down from the muzzle on the left side. It was in a gun shop in a nearby town and he wanted just under 100 bucks for it. I asked him if the price tag was a typo, he said he was getting out of the BP thing. I couldn't dig my wallet out fast enough.
BOTH these guns, I've found, shoot high, even with the rear sight screwed to the bottom position. I have to compensate my sight picture, but they shoot 2" groups at 25 yards with round ball or Lee 220 grain conical. Now, that, folks, is modern cartridge revolver accuracy and much better than I've been able to get done with the colt replicas. However, I have not gotten any trigger time with a Remington. Friend of mine has a cheap Remington and he likes the way it shoots. I mean, the colts just have such rudimentary sights on 'em, there's just no real way they can compete IMHO for accuracy even if the particular guns is well made and tight.
I've given thought to getting a Remington stainless 58. I am not certain as to whether I would want one of the target guns, or a 5.5" with fixed sight. I'm thinking the 5.5" with fixed sight would be more what I'd want, though. The old army is a HUGE, heavy gun. A smaller Remington would fit well into my little growing collection along with maybe a Sheriff's model of some Colt in .36 for a smaller gun, yet. For now, for cap and ball, I have the Ruger and a Remington .31 CVA. The Remington is fun, but not real accurate. The Ruger is a helluva shooter, amazing gun. Of course, it fits in my collection with my .45 Colt and .357 Blackhawks, too, I guess.
It's every bit the quality gun that those Blackhawks are.
