Shoots great.......dead on but a few inches high. The overall weight make the gun, loaded with 30 gr fffg, handle like a pussy cat......POOM!! Then negligible recoil.
It is an experience when you have an expended cap jam. I can only wonder what went thru some young slob's mind 145 years ago when a line of bayonet equipped opfor was just about to taste blood and his first shot, a miss, was followed up with a firmly snagged cylinder............not good!
After a complete teardown I could see two areas that need work. First was the teeth on the back of the cylinder. Whatever process Pietta used to form the teeth the hand engages left some health burrs inside which bore on the cylinder pin. A few careful minutes with a moto-tool took those off. The next questionable area I found (and I'll need to figure out how to approach) is the milled (or in this case I belive cast) channel inside the frame for the hand. It is very rough!!! The hand itself appears to be a casting thats been machined down. It works, but you can
hear the roughness just sliding that piece up and down in the channel.
The finish is good......the fit pretty good (the grips could be a little better but I'm likely to change those eventually), and it shoots.......what more can you ask?
Overall, I would rate this gun as well worth the $165 I spent on it.
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