let's see your black powder guns

[sixgunnin]

Let's see your black powder beauty's. Here's mine

Pietta 1851 in .44

 

[Hawg]

That's not a .44, my pics don't work here anymore.

 

[sixgunnin]

You have a good eye, my pics don't work either so I found one online. (that one happens to be a .36, you're right) But mine is a .44

 

[Oliver Sudden]

This one I just finished, the third long rifle I've built. 40 calibre swamped barrel, Siler lock kit, Davis triggers and a fair piece of curly maple. This is my first attempt at engraving so it's just simple lines.

 

[rodwhaincamo]

Here's my .50 cal Lyman Deerstalker:



Here's my Ruger Old Army:



And here's my Pietta Remington New Model Army:

 

[Hawg]

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[drobs]

 

[AKexpat]

Preface: I am retired on a fixed income, and can only afford one pistol per year.

I went to the Pietta 1851 Navy .36 type pistols because of the interchangeability of parts. All repros shown below. The first three are original Pietta pistols from Cabela's. The rest are mix and match guns.

1851 Navy Second Model Squareback TG (even though the load-lever pivot screw enters from the left, which is not historically correct)

Griswold and Gunnison

1851 Navy 3rd/4th Model (depending upon TG size/shape)

Leech and Rigdon

Schneider and Glassick

My favorite 1851 Navy fantasy pistol: a Navy .36 Second Model Dragoon

Caveat: all six pistols were created from three original pistols just by swapping frames, barrels, and cylinders.

If Alessandro Pietta or his reps are monitoring, I believe there is a market for a Dance .36 based on an 1851 Navy .36 frame. I want one. The Dance .36 is historically correct. Pietta produces a Dance .44 on a modified 1851 frame (in which the water table is not cut for a rebated cylinder but is lowered) for the non-rebated Pietta cylinder that is much larger than a Pietta .36 Navy cylinder.

http://www.dixiegunworks.com/product_info.php?products_id=883

http://www.taylorsfirearms.com/1862-dance-revolver-pietta.html

This next guy has no clue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyTtrlrcGVA

Sorry to get so off topic with your pic thread.

Jim

 

[Hawg]

Dangit, why does everybody else's photobucket pics work here and mine don't?

 

[AKexpat]

Hawg, I PM'd you.

 

[Hawg]

Answered you.

 

[Fingers McGee]

Here's one of my more rare C&Bs. A true carbine.

 

[Fingers McGee]

And a few cased sets.

 

[Bill Akins]

Here's mine.

Armi San Marcos Sheriff's model .36 cal.

My restored Uberti 1858 Remington with fluted .45 Colt cartridge conversion cylinder.

My Uberti 1858 carbine .44 cal.

My two nickel plated Pietta 1860's with stainless fluted cylinders. .44 cal.
They originally came with gold wash plated fluted cylinders, but the gold flakes off if you shoot them, so I replaced the cylinders with stainless fluted ones and replaced the gold hammers with case hardened ones.

My CVA, double set triggers, mountain rifle, .50 cal.

.

 

[Hawg]

Dragoon and navy.

G&G

Uberti/Cimarron model P .44WCF

Remington navy

Guess

 

[Hawg]

P53 Enfields. A repro and an original

.54 Hawken built from scratch but not by me.

Pedersoli 12 gauge

Guess that will do for now.

 

[sixgunnin]

Very nice collections!

 

[the possum]

No one has shown a little one yet. How 'bout Navies in .36 and .17?

 

[Hawg]

No one has shown a little one yet. How 'bout Navies in .36 and .17?

All navies are .36, the .44's are Italian fantasies and I never saw a .17 cap and ball before. I posted two navies and a G&G all .36. Those you posted are fantasy pieces too.

 

[the possum]

Yes. Thank you.

The mini one is a Colt, made under license in Italy. You can get a factory letter on 'em from Colt, so I think that's good enough to call genuine.