I'm baaaaack!
Hey Mike,MPP1423,
Yesterday was a busy day, mandatory 12 hr shift at work...:barf: Didn't have time for hardly anything. I did get the new Remington yesterday evening so I had to make time to take it apart and clean it and give it a good once over.
Lost some sleep, but dreamed about target practice the rest of the night!
I ordered the Pietta instead of Uberti since mike convinced me that they all need some smith work anyway. You're right mike the gun does need some smoothing out, but that's no big deal and I'm in no way disappointed with what I got. Overall I'd rate this gun as a "very good workmanship", the castings are good quality and the gun is tight! I did have to take a little metal off the cylinder pin with some sandpaper, the fit was so tight before that you had to wiggle the pin through the cylinder to get it to go through and "lock up" when installing the cylinder. That's fixed now and it's slick as grease, works very well with the cylinder that came with the gun and my three other cylinders from my other gun.
The inside of the barrel is a little gritty too, so I'll have to find some JB bore paste and smooth that out soon. When I ran patches down the barrel to clean it, it was actually gritty enough to pull fuzz off the patch and leave in the barrel, but the rifling looks good and sharp. The action is a tiny bit gritty when cocking and you wouldn't notice if you weren't paying attention for it. I think that will smooth itself out with a little use. Another excuse to go shoot! I'll chamfer the new cylinder this weekend and smooth the bore out, also I plan on getting some blue remover and thinning down the shiny new blue on this gun to make it look well worn, any other suggestions on what else I need to do to smooth out my new toy?
Sorry, no pics yet but I'll get that taken care of tonight or tomorrow morning so you guys can get a look. I'll get a pic as it looks now and when I get the bluing stripped down a bit I'll get an "after" pic for comparison.
BTW, mike that gun of yours is SHARP!