The Dragoon thread
- Thread starter Beagle333
- Start date
Legionnaire. That there Walker got ah mean look to it. I'd like to fine one like that.
Dlon you got a mean looking Dragoon there to. I don't know what it is about a gun with the finish gone I just like the looks of um.
Hay guys I like all of them. You fellas got some fine looking pistols. Do you think if we all went after the bad guys at the same time we could make him stinky and run at the same time.
Dlon you got a mean looking Dragoon there to. I don't know what it is about a gun with the finish gone I just like the looks of um.
Hay guys I like all of them. You fellas got some fine looking pistols. Do you think if we all went after the bad guys at the same time we could make him stinky and run at the same time.
bushmaster65
New member
just one question shotput79.....
Why in the hell would you want only ONE more Dragoon?!
You've got the 1st gen right there, got two more to go........
Why in the hell would you want only ONE more Dragoon?!
You've got the 1st gen right there, got two more to go........
CAUSE!!! These things grow on ya and I'd have a room full of them. I started out with one Pietta 1858 Remmie target model and now I have three more Pietta 1858s in .44 cal and one in ,36 cal and now getting ready to buy one made by Uberti just cause I wanted a Uberti model. These guns grow on ya. I'm addited and can't help myself. Bushmaster you start messing with these guns and you'll find out what I'm talken about. 
I started out with one Pietta 1858 Remmie target model and now I have three more Pietta 1858s in .44 cal and one in ,36 cal and now getting ready to buy one made by Uberti just cause I wanted a Uberti model. These guns grow on ya. I'm addited and can't help myself. Bushmaster you start messing with these guns and you'll find out what I'm talken about. FloridaVeteran
New member
Clembert's cartridges
Clembert - is the shorter cartridge a "45 Cowboy?" It looks too short to be a Schofield.
Clembert - is the shorter cartridge a "45 Cowboy?" It looks too short to be a Schofield.
bushmaster65
New member
Shotput79,
Let me tell you about addiction....
In the year of our lord nineteen hundred and ninety six, My US Army
room mate and I went for our first skydive. Not tandem, it was lesson #1
out of 7 and I got my own chute with a radio receiver and speakers in the helmet to assist me with steering my way back to the drop zone. My room mates chute opened extremely fast "a slammer" and he caught his left testicle in the strap, tore the top of both middle cells back about three feet and landed like a lead brick! Never to jump again.
I, on the other hand, had a bitchen freefall, parachute ride like an eagle and landed like a lead brick doing about 20mph!
(seriously now) I gathered up my chute, returned it to the packing shed, went to the office with my check book and immediately signed up for lesson #2!
1 1/2 years and 204 jumps later I quit because my lower back was getting really FUBAR and decelerating from 120 to 25mph in about 3sec doesn't help.
So what the hell does jumping have to do with BP revolvers? I bought my Dragoon in July, my Walker in August and the only reason I'm not getting my next dragoon in September is because I'm building a presentation case for my Walker. This also stretches out my wife's time/space continuum and she wont realize just how much money is being spent, and how quickly. So you see my friend, I was addicted when I first held that dragoon in my hands (another reason I spent so much for it).
So let the addiction begin!!!
Let me tell you about addiction....
In the year of our lord nineteen hundred and ninety six, My US Army
room mate and I went for our first skydive. Not tandem, it was lesson #1
out of 7 and I got my own chute with a radio receiver and speakers in the helmet to assist me with steering my way back to the drop zone. My room mates chute opened extremely fast "a slammer" and he caught his left testicle in the strap, tore the top of both middle cells back about three feet and landed like a lead brick! Never to jump again.
I, on the other hand, had a bitchen freefall, parachute ride like an eagle and landed like a lead brick doing about 20mph!
(seriously now) I gathered up my chute, returned it to the packing shed, went to the office with my check book and immediately signed up for lesson #2!
1 1/2 years and 204 jumps later I quit because my lower back was getting really FUBAR and decelerating from 120 to 25mph in about 3sec doesn't help.
So what the hell does jumping have to do with BP revolvers? I bought my Dragoon in July, my Walker in August and the only reason I'm not getting my next dragoon in September is because I'm building a presentation case for my Walker. This also stretches out my wife's time/space continuum and she wont realize just how much money is being spent, and how quickly. So you see my friend, I was addicted when I first held that dragoon in my hands (another reason I spent so much for it).
So let the addiction begin!!!
FloridaVeteran
New member
Bushmaster - ran into that wife issue tonight, at a dinner for six. Told her, in front of all, that we need to think about buying a duplex, side be side.
Got real quiet after that.
Got real quiet after that.
Started in BP shooting in the early 70s
At that time I was married to my "thankfully ex" wife who nagged me so much I finally sold my collection and stopped shooting.
Fouteen years ago I married present spousal unit. I spend most of my time trying to figure out how to be worthy of her.
Shortly thereafter I got back into shooting but this time revolvers only. When I bought my eleventh or twelfth revolver my better half asked, "How many revolvers do you think you will need?" Mind you, she was not concerned about the money or the time. She was just curious about the way I approached the shooter's way of life.
I did not know how to answer her question. I still don't. Forty pistols later, she has a better understanding of why I didn't know how many revolvers I would eventually need. She has never once complained about a revolver purchase. She generally kicks me out of the house to go shooting. Once or twice, she actually went with me. It was her idea to build display cases and hang them around the house. She never gripes about the revolver parts soaking in the kitchen sink or drying in the oven. She doesn't mind the bore lube on the stove. And she doesn't make me go to church.
Number two is a definite improvement over number one.
At that time I was married to my "thankfully ex" wife who nagged me so much I finally sold my collection and stopped shooting.
Fouteen years ago I married present spousal unit. I spend most of my time trying to figure out how to be worthy of her.
Shortly thereafter I got back into shooting but this time revolvers only. When I bought my eleventh or twelfth revolver my better half asked, "How many revolvers do you think you will need?" Mind you, she was not concerned about the money or the time. She was just curious about the way I approached the shooter's way of life.
I did not know how to answer her question. I still don't. Forty pistols later, she has a better understanding of why I didn't know how many revolvers I would eventually need. She has never once complained about a revolver purchase. She generally kicks me out of the house to go shooting. Once or twice, she actually went with me. It was her idea to build display cases and hang them around the house. She never gripes about the revolver parts soaking in the kitchen sink or drying in the oven. She doesn't mind the bore lube on the stove. And she doesn't make me go to church.
Number two is a definite improvement over number one.
Doc,
I'm with you here on the gun thing (still got the same wife though, 35 good years). I've owned at least 30 C&Bs and stay in the teens with those in the house. My breakthrough didn't involve a spousal change but a truce regarding our respective passions: she wanted/needed a THIRD sewing machine for her quilting obsession which I just didn't "get". Something about a machine with a "walking foot" so I said, "Fine, get a 3rd sewing machine, but I don't want to hear any squawking when I bring home an occasional revolver." No problem, she says 'cause she wanted that sewing machine SO BAD. Since then, the dam broke and the pistols flooded in. Not a word about it. Happy wife, happy life.
I'm with you here on the gun thing (still got the same wife though, 35 good years). I've owned at least 30 C&Bs and stay in the teens with those in the house. My breakthrough didn't involve a spousal change but a truce regarding our respective passions: she wanted/needed a THIRD sewing machine for her quilting obsession which I just didn't "get". Something about a machine with a "walking foot" so I said, "Fine, get a 3rd sewing machine, but I don't want to hear any squawking when I bring home an occasional revolver." No problem, she says 'cause she wanted that sewing machine SO BAD. Since then, the dam broke and the pistols flooded in. Not a word about it. Happy wife, happy life.
bushmaster65
New member
here are some picks that I finally took of my two babies.
2nd gen dragoon and my brand new walker. Deflowered at the range today where some of the picks taken.
A little contrast provided by my Walther .380 auto
2nd gen dragoon and my brand new walker. Deflowered at the range today where some of the picks taken.
A little contrast provided by my Walther .380 auto
LOLsackettboys
Inactive
here's my mini collection of ASM "dragoons"-
top is 3rd model (1991) .44 cal, note long range rear sight but no cutout in the recoil shield for a shoulder stock
middle (1969) .31 cal, 1848 with dragoon style 5 3/4" barrel & stagecoach scene on the cylinder
bottom is another 1848 (1978) .31 cal with dragoon style 4" barrel with Rangers chasing Indians scene on the cylinder.
Attachments
Last edited:
Captainkirk
New member
Big Daddy & Baby
Uberti 2nd Dragoon, FIE Baby Dragoon (maker unknown)
Uberti 2nd Dragoon, FIE Baby Dragoon (maker unknown)
I bought a pre-owned but unfired and almost unturned 1st model Dragoon two days ago. It's a Uberti. I paid $275. It was a consignment gun. I stripped the grips and am in the process of refinishing them with Danish oil. The grips are fiddleback walnut. I will probably age the gun's finish a little also. The gun is better made than the 1851 and 1860 models I have owned.