Pietta 12" Carbine Barrel

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Been awhile since I have been around...been pretty busy...but here is the new barrel I got from Taylors, a .44 caliber 51 barrel on the Frankengoon special...check it out!
https://youtu.be/1rYJplASUz8
 
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I've been interested in one of those and checked Taylor's site and found them (.36 and .44 cal versions) missing. I figured Pietta quit producing them.
 
Man would I love to have one in .36 as well.. no such luck so far. Thanks for watching Yall!
 
This is only a three screw so I guess a stock is not an option:

http://www.gunbroker.com/item/588825382
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Dixie Gun Works 2015 catalog lists a Pietta 1851 shoulder stock to fit a 3-screw pistol with the stock attachment divot on the bottom of the backstrap: DGW cat # WP0025 @ $295. This stock is shown in the catalog mated with the Pietta "tail" grip profile which is evident in the pictures in your GB link.

The stock comes with replacement hammer screw to provide the "studs" necessary for attachment.

https://www.dixiegunworks.com/product_info.php?products_id=12456&osCsid=hj6o91u41aeccen35eh0j1s410

If available, it should fit that pistol shown in your link.

Both prices combined, that will be a spendy unique repro. Jealous. Let us know if it comes to fruition.

Good luck, sir!

Jim
 
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Pietta 12" Carbine Barrel

Been awhile since I have been around...been pretty busy...but here is the new barrel I got from Taylors, a .44 caliber 51 barrel on the Frankengoon special...check it out!

https://youtu.be/1rYJplASUz8
Click to expand...

Brushy, nice pistol! It is nice that many 1851/1860 Pietta parts interchange well.

Enjoyed your video (as always), but I have a few comments, if you will bear with me...

IMO, if that pistol was "goonerized" (Mike does excellent work and has many testimonials as to that fact), it must have been done before you installed the R&D conversion cylinder. Mike prides himself upon (and his stated personal preference for) conversions as opposed to the percussion pistols.

Near the end of your video you are seen repositioning the cylinder for bolt lockup every shot. I highly doubt that Goon would allow a pistol to leave his care like that.

And, I am probably the "b**thole" you refer to in your video. I have commented in the past about your previous video that ATF would consider a cartridge-converted percussion pistol with a shoulder stock and a less-than-16" barrel as an SBR (short-barrel-rifle), and I stand by that assertion. It started as a pistol, had a 12" barrel added, in addition to a shoulder stock. That is an SBR.

Hardly any difference between that and the modern day conundrum with AR-15 pistols when adding a regular buttstock.

When having nothing better to do, ATF will push the point when it comes to their "current" point-of-view (whatever that may be at any date or time, and they revise their regs at a moment's notice with little or no oversight) and you could face felony charges. Just my $.02 worth.

All in all, I truly think the idea of your firearm is great! I have wanted to get a shoulder stock for my Pietta 1851 collection for years, as well as a conversion cylinder or two for S**ts & G**ggles (that's not Schneider & Glassick :D ), but I don't have the money for it.

I don't mean to tread upon you. In a world of less "gun safety measures" (whatever that is), we could all enjoy a better time, ala pre '68 GCA.

Carry on, Brushy.

Jim
 
Honestly...making sure the cylinder is locked in place is just kinda a habit..it really has not issue locking up...it being a 5 shot it throws a bit different than the 6 shot cylinders and I have always been wary of having it misaligned...and no..I think it was actually a different butthole..but if you might have noticed..I like to lighten it up a bit..not really gonna single anybody out..all in good fun...hey and thanks for watching! I throw things at Mike...he deals with on a regular basis and he has never failed me!
edit;....the atf bit.....well......with all the bs those guys pull... what I do on my place is my business..they wanna come here I say lettem. I got nothin to hide. I am an American...I am a veteran...and I will not have a suit somewhere a thousand miles away tell me which barrel I can put on my revolver....or which cylinder....thank you end of rant. Again...thanks for watching Jim.
 
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First, Great informative video as always, Jim. Keep them coming. :)

With my conversion for my 1860 Army repro I was having, or should I say my revolver, was having a rough time with 45 long colt cartridges. I'm not sure about the grain bullet I was using but the 45 long colt higher grain bullets are to long for the 1860 cylinder. I have no idea how they were chambering unless when rotating the tip of the round nosed bullet was pushing back the cylinder against the hand as it brushed up against that back of the barrel. That's the only way I can figure it.

Anyway those 45 long colts were beating the living daylights out of my revolver and accuracy was dismal. So bad I had to place two large targets side by side and aim at the lower right hand corner of the right side target to get it any where on the paper. They battered the wedge to pieces and blew the front sight off of the barrel.

After that experience I changed to the 45 Schofield currently using the 180 grain and 230 grain bullets. Still they are not as accurate as my loose powder and ball loads but a whole lot more accurate then those 45 long colts.
 
Do you know the twist rate of your Colt? Maybe you need shorter bullets.

I had Accurate Molds make me a boolit for my Ruger and Remington that was about the length of a ball. It is just 0.460" long and weighs 195 grns. It does equally well as a ball through both pistols. Both are 1:16" twist but it ought to do fairly well in a slow twist.
 
Not to get to far off track, shorter bullets would not be the best possible solution as I can easily fit 230 grain 45 Schofield cartridges in a 1860 Army conversion cylinder with acceptable accuracy. Even 200 grain 45 long colts will not fit in the conversion.
 
MBC 200 grain round nose bullets fit in my 1860 conversion. So do Black Dawg 235 grain RNFPs and two other 250 grain RNFPs that I have. The MBC 255 grain semi wadcutters don't.
 
Yes they do fit. My mistake. They must have been the semi wadcutters not sure of the grain of bullet. My apologies Jim for getting off track.
 

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Lol hey Crawdad! No prob...and I was thanking Jim...xpat alaska for watching..but you can call me jim...or pete or gomer er whatever! ;) Thanks to you all for watching! Al is actually my given name...well an abreviation of I suppose...I have never shot anything through my conversion that was not a hand load. Cool that those work out of the box.
 
Nice video BH!! I sold a 12incher fantasy gun made by Pietta some time back to Fingers, maybe he'll post a pic of it. It was a factory made Colt Carbine and the stock was way too sort for me to be comfortable.
 
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