Shooting Cimarron's .44 Spl Model P

[duelist1954]

Cimarron's Model P is a clone of Colt's Single Action Army revolver. It is manufactured built by Uberti in Italy. The gun is a replica of a first generation Colt SAA from Mike Harvey's personal collection. Mike is the CEO of Cimarron, and an avid old west firearms historian and collector. This seven and a half inch barreled version is chambered in .44 Special, which is one of my favorite cartridges.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHbu3B6yHD4

 

[towboat_er]

Nice video. Good shooting.

 

[the Black Spot]

Pretty nice guns. I have one in 44 special as well and love it.

 

[joecil]

I have the Cimarron/Uberti 7 1/2" barrel Mod P also but in 45 Colt. My favorite of the 3 1873 SAA colt replicas. I have one in 4.75" and the other a 5.5" barrel versions.

 

[BCRider]

Mike, I've long noticed how good you are at "cleaning the 7-10 split" with those water bottle shots.....

What about a slightly higher set of stands and cross beam with three hangman's nooses that hold the bottles around the necks? The bonus would be that if you get higher up hits they could still be hanging with the lower half filled and you get to take out the bottom half with another shot.

EDIT- Just thought again that if you don't like the idea of them hanging slightly at an angle from the hangman's knot you could punch a hole through the caps and tie a simply overhand knot in the cord after pushing through the cap. That would let them hang totally vertical. You'd simply need some "transport" caps to avoid the leakage until you set them up on the stand.

 

[Lunie]

Nicely done. (We've come to expect as such from you. )

If it hasn't been asked a thousand times before, what makes the .44 Special a favorite to you?

 

[duelist1954]

B C Rider... I've shot tied bottles, as you suggest in some earlier videos... Didn't like 'em as much as the free to fly bottles, but I may give them another run.

lunie, I like .44 Spl be because it is an intrinsically accurate cartridge that is easy to reload, and is (to me anyway) low recoiling.

 

[BCRider]

I should have known that my idea wasn't all that orginal.

I can see where hanging them would reduce the fun factor since at most they would just dance a little and then leak. Not nearly as satisfying as blasting them off a perch.

Flat shields between the bottles then? Or at least a longer beam with more spacing between them?

I know what you mean about accuracy vs recoil. While I do enjoy a few "wrist wreckers" for giggles I'm in the middle of playing around with some bullet and powder options for toned down loads in my .44Mag brass which will shoot the most accurately. I'm hoping to find a sweet spot which feels probably much like a mid to stout level of .44Spl recoil when it's done. Something that will take down some steel "silly-wets" out at 50 and 100 yards while not leaving me with a strong desire to flinch....

 

[YumaKid]

I hear ya, bc. Quite a few years back started hunting around for something like that for my 4" S&W 629. Found that it liked 9-9.5 grains of Unique under a 250 gr LSWC. Slugs were casted up by myself and a buddy of mine from work, usually AT work (when we'd both get stuck with the "Sunday month"); in-between trouble calls. Very accurate, but it was too late; already had the flinch down pat!
That part has turned out okay though, since I started shooting BP. I had hoped that the "slow recoil" would stop me from expecting the front sight to come up and tap me on the forehead (like what happened the first time I sent a full-house .44 Mag downrange); turns out it has worked!

And the smoke and the BOOM and the time taken to reload (most generally with the cylinder in the Remmie) has turned out to be a lot more fun.

EDIT: And my favorite targets are STILL slightly over-ripe cantaloupes (musk-melons). Be it a sooper dee-luxe hollowpoint out of the Smith or a .454 roundball out of a Remington; those melons go off like a shaving cream can in one of Mike's videos! And hey, they're bio-degradeable, which should keep the greenies happy