What size holster for a Dance and Brothers?

[wittzo]

I got a Remington holster for my Pietta Remington. No brainer.
I got a Walker holster for my Ubertis Walker. Ditto.

Is the Pietta Dance and Brothers more like an 1860 Colt or a Dragoon? Which holster will fit?

I notice that Cabela's and others recommend a Walker holster for a Dragoon, but the Dance and Brothers is a good bit smaller than a Walker, but I have no Dragoon for comparison.

Edit: I just tried it with my Remington's holster, it's nearly a perfect fit. My gunbelt is going to be sagging my drawers when I load up. A Remington on one hip, a Walker on another, and somewhere my Dance and Brothers, and somewhere my Howdah pistol, plus all of those cylinder pouches.

I halfway have another solution, I can get an 1860 holster anyway and if it doesn't fit, I'll buy an 1860 Colt. And a Dragoon, to cover all my bases.

 

[arcticap]

Could you tell us about the fit & finish of the Dance?
How's the trigger pull?
While I had read that the Dance was based on the Dragoon design, someone recently told me that it was more similar to an Colt 1851 and that the cylinder doesn't hold more than the standard loads of powder. From the holster size that fits it does that appear to be true?
Does it have a fluted cylinder? It's hard to be certain from the picture.
From your first impression, does the square trigger guard seem to be comfortable?
Thanks for any more info that you can provide.
I found that the Sportsman's Guide lists the Dance revolver with a buyer's club price of $296.97 (regular price $329.97) and sometimes they also offer discount coupon codes for products or shipping just for signing up for their email list. For instance here's one:
"For orders over $99 - $10 off - Code SG1074 expires 7/31/10"

http://shop.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/cb.aspx?a=582545

 

[Digger Odell]

wittzo,

I have read somewhere that the Colt 1851 Navy was often used to make a fake Dance Bros. revolver. Therefore your Dance Bros. should fit the colt 1851 Navy holster.
I like your solution for 1860 Army holster.

 

[madcratebuilder]

The Dance replica is a standard holster frame size revolver. A holster for a 51, 60 or 61 well be fine.

The Pietta Dance Bros is a round barreled 51 Navy in .44cal with the sides of the recoil shield machined away.

 

[arcticap]

I noticed that madcratebuilder's Dance doesn't have the same square back trigger guard as the current Pietta Model.

 

[Ratdog68]

I noticed that madcratebuilder's Dance doesn't have the same square back trigger guard as the current Pietta Model.

You're right !!! That MCB is one wascallwy wabbit !!

 

[wittzo]

MCB swapped the triggerguard from a 3rd Dragoon and it was a drop in replacement, with no fitting..

The only qualms I have about the pistol..which I have loaded, but not fired yet...(hopefully if the rain lets up in ten minutes, I'll change that)...The grip is too small for my hand. My pinky is wiggling free in the air like it's a Glock Compact model..and my second finger is jammed into the rear of the trigger guard trying to make room for it, but no luck..

The action seems to be smooth..but it's cantankerous to take out the barrel wedge..My Walker comes right out with nary a tap, but I have to hold my mouth a certain way for this one to come off.

It seems that it would max out at 40 grains of powder...So I'm going to have to get a '60 and a Dragoon for research purposes, of course.

 

[bprevolver]

This is a new one on me! What make Dragoon did MCB use to replace the square back trigger guard on a 1851 Navy frame with a Dragoon trigger guard without modification? The Pietta Dance Revolver in .44cal. is actually a modified 1851 Navy frame, not a Dragoon. A trigger guard from any Pietta 1851 Navy will interchange.

The original Dance Brothers revolvers were in both .36cal. and .44cal., with the .36cal. being the most rare. The .44cal. was a "bastard" size between the 1851 Navy and the 3rd Model Dragoon. Tony Gajewsky, the "Father" of the Dance replicas, had a complete set of working drawings made up to produce this "bastard" size as an All American Made reproduction complete with original markings (which seemed to be somewhat different on each revolver) and the approval of the Dance Estate. This has not materialized because of the cost to produce this type of replica in the U. S.

By the way, the square back trigger guard on the replicas was intentionally done by Tony to help prevent any attempt by some idiot from trying to fake an original. The first Dance replicas were only in .36cal. made by Uberti (only 50 produced). When Tony contracted Pietta for the 2nd Generation Dance replicas this square back trigger guard was continued.

 

[wittzo]

I was misremembering..he might have used a Navy triggerguard, he mentioned it in another thread when I was researching the Dance and Brothers. I think some people talked about swapping their 3rd Dragoon guards with the 2nd Dragoon and vis a vis, I got it confused. Pietta makes all of their replicas so it's easy for them to manufacture and come up with new not quite historically correct models that end up with interchangeable parts.