I'm talking the price range about $250-350 for a target model with adjustable sights. Not sure what the Pedersoli is, but if the TC is correct that they are $1000 or thereabouts then I can't see any reason to pay 3-4 times the price of Pietta/Uberti.
In other words you're guessing. Just because YOU can't see any reason doesn't mean reasons don't exist.
TC???
Because I've read enough accounts of users that their Pietta's/Uberti's have lasted them decades and shoot great. Of course, a c&b is only going to last as well as you take care of it and clean it.
Longevity is the only measure of what is "better"? "I've read accounts..." is a long way from having your own. My oldest Uberti was bought brand new in 1986 and ithas been flawless. However, that does not mean that "better" guns do not exist.
Because these guns are shooting black powder. Even with Swiss, the powder is itself not as good or as accurate as smokeless powders. From 25 yards, the differences will be marginal.
Interesting, baseless theory. Easily disproved by the fact that folks are shooting these upgraded match guns in matches and not standard Uberti or Pietta guns.
That would be convenient. Because your experience is decidedly lacking, yet you speak with authority as if YOU are the last word. You have a lot to learn and your demeanor should reflect that.
I see no reason why the TC won't give the Pietta or Uberti target guns a chance when it seems he has the capital to fund a purchase of a Pedersoli
Because it seems, like other folks hereabouts, he wants to pay more for a better gun.
"Although it seems to be a an order of magnitude above the other two as they go for upwards of a grand or so."
...why you see to believe you're the supreme judge that you can proclaim a Pedersoli 1858 is better without having ever owned one.
I don't have to own every model Pedersoli ever produced to know that on average, they are measurably better than other Italian replicas. Most folks would tend to agree.
And I believe the word you were looking for was pretentiousness.
No junior, I used the word I was "looking for". Proletentiousness is a sort of twisted reverse form of snobbery. To be a snob about things that are less expensive. To be a snob about your proletariat background. To turn your nose up at those who may afford more expensive possessions. Be it guns, cars, boats, motorcycles, homes, clothes, jewelry, etc.. The need to believe that people pay more just for a name or only to show off. That you have somehow got the leg up on them and make the wiser choice. Which brings me to my question for you, why are you getting so defensive at the suggestion that a Pedersoli is a better made gun than a Uberti or Pietta? I have 17 guns between the two makers and I'm the one who made the suggestion.
I suggest if the TC wants the best and doesn't care about money, then by all means he should get the Pedersoli.
So anyone who spends more than you doesn't care about money? Grasshopper, you have a lot to learn. You need to do a lot more reading and a lot less posting.
I have $1150 in this Uberti Dragoon:
And about $2200 in this Cimarron Open Top:
Do you really want to continue this conversation with the silly notion that I wasted money? Or do you want to let the folks who own the money, decide how best to spend it?
