Video - Shooting Pietta's .44-40 Single Action

[duelist1954]

In this video I'm shooting a stainless steel .44-40 SAA clone made by Pietta. This particular gun was imported by Legacy Sports as the Puma Westerner, but Legacy no longer imports Pietta. However, E.M.F. and Cimarron still import Pietta SAA clones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PNex2ypY-c

 

[Zombiphobia]

"the bad guy's view"

 

[Jaymo]

Like it. Want one.

 

[junkman_01]

Mike,

I always look forward to your videos, and this one was no disappointment! Keep up the good work.

 

[Foto Joe]

I'm wondering if you're using a single stage or turret to load your 44WCF/45 Colt rounds, or have you gone really old school and use a period correct hand loader?

A couple of months back I finally received my second Uberti Cattleman, the first was in 45 Colt and blued. The second is 44-40 and nickle. Both eat Black Powder well with little or no binding until around the third cylinder. Although the nickle 44-40 seems to function quite a bit better when the works start getting sooted up pretty good.

The reaction of the folks around you when you light one of these pieces off is always entertaining even if they've been forwarned.

 

[duelist1954]

I have a period correct Lyman 310 tool, and I use it for the sake of getting into the historical mind set. But I have to admit that most of my black powder .44-40, .44 Spl, and .45 Colt is loaded on a Dillon 550B progressive press, and my B-P .38 Spl is loaded on a Lee Turret press.

After the third cylinder try spraying the front and rear cylinder contact points with Balistol, and I think you'll eliminate the drag, at least enough to get through six cylinders full.

 

[Busyhands94]

another great video! excellent work Mike! do you mind if i did a video with various guns showing what the loser of a gunfight sees?

 

[duelist1954]

Busyhands, feel free. Sounds like fun.

 

[Foto Joe]

After the third cylinder try spraying the front and rear cylinder contact points with Balistol, and I think you'll eliminate the drag, at least enough to get through six cylinders full.

One of my "tricks" if you will is to have a spray bottle of 1:1 Moose Milk with me and a shop rag as well as an oiler with straight Ballistol. I spray some Moose Milk on the rag and wipe the front of the cylinder every couple or few cylinders. With the oiler I'll put a couple of drops on the front and rear pin points of the cylinder as well. This seems to prevent any problems and makes life a little simpler.

I do have an old Dakota SAA with a 12" barrel that about every three cylinders I've learned to pull the pin and cylinder then wipe them both down with Ballistol. Failure to do so will make getting that pin out when you're done shooting a major ordeal.

All in all, the SAA's perform excellent with Black Powder. Now if somebody would please tell Uberti to make their Schofields so they would shoot the right powder.