Pair Of Savage Navy's

[sltm1]

To all who wondered if I'd fallen off the edge of the world with this project, 3 bout's of sininusitis and a major case of "Summer Sloth" have finally given way to noticable progress. Everthing has been done to all the mechanical parts, some have been remade and all have been re-furbished and re-antiqued. Re-hardening the springs and replacing mangled screws is all that's left. Took a while to figure out why the springs went soft, the pistol was in a fire. I discovered this when I took the spring loaded latch off the end of the loading lever and removed the spring. It was partially melted and dead soft, also made out of brass....BIG surprise. My working one is on the top of the pic.

 

[1KPerDay]

Cool!

 

[72coupe]

Those are so cool. I am glad you are giving them new life. I hope they last another 150 years.

 

[Foto Joe]

Pardon the ignorant question but what's the odd trigger set-up. Are they DA's or is that a set trigger below "the" trigger?

 

[pohill]

The gun is actually lever action. When you pull the bottom ring lever back (with your middle finger), it cocks the hammer and pulls the cylinder back from the forcing cone (and rotates the cylinder). Release the ring lever and the cylinder is forced up against the forcing cone, forming a gas seal. The gun is fired with your regular trigger finger.
Sltm1 did a clever job of fitting the loading lever from a Colt to the bottom gun (he can elaborate if he wants to)

 

[sltm1]

Just some "kitchen table gunsmithing" on the 51' loading lever. The original was too far gone to fix, there are no replacements available, and this looked to me to be a "period correct", fix that might have been done in the day. The only 2 pieces that are replacements are the plunger and lever, I managed to salvage the engaging keeper that goes into the end of the lever.

Pohill, do you think the old "Volcanic' had anything to dowith the cocking configuration or just the shape?

 

[BHP FAN]

that is clever!

 

[Kaeto]

Certainly looks better than when I sent it to you.

 

[pohill]

I don't know much about the Volcanic, other than they're pretty pricey. There's one in an antique store a few miles from my house but they'll only let "serious buyers" handle it. I couldn't be serious when I saw the price - $15,000.00
I did take this pic with a cell phone through the glass.


I always thought that maybe the Pettengill led to the Savage & North but check this out:
http://armscollectors.com/mgs/army_revolvers_part_1.htm