Colt 1860, 2nd gen

Hello All,

First time poster, long time stalker. For my first post, I thought I’d share a picture of my new to me Colt 1860, 2nd gen revolver that I won at an auction recently.

That’s a beauty isn’t it? You are going to enjoy shooting it!

That is one of those guns you hate to shoot, but you know you will anyhow. It is a looker. By the way took you nearly 3 years to post. You can do better than that and we expect more.

Sweet, love real Colt markings on the barrel

Bad Karma said:

That’s a beauty isn’t it? You are going to enjoy shooting it!

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It sure is, which is going to make it hard to bring myself to shoot it.

Rich44 said:

That is one of those guns you hate to shoot, but you know you will anyhow. It is a looker. By the way took you nearly 3 years to post. You can do better than that and we expect more.

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Thanks for the compliment too.

I’m good at stalking forums, not so much on posting. I’ll work on it.

Congrats on your Colt!! Just ordered MY Colt 1860 2nd gen today. Should have it soon. It has factory box and papers? Guy says it has never been shot. I plan to change that though. It is what they were made for. It will be babyed though.

Careful... those 2nd gens get addictive!
Walker, Dragoon, 60 Army, 51 Navy, 61 Navy, couple 49 Pockets... love 'em all!

I first bought the lowest priced reproductions I could find, then as I learned about different manufacturers and differences in quality I started trading up for what I believe are the better reproductions, i.e., Uberti, Cimarron, Taylor. Now I’m starting to trade up again for 2nd Gen reproductions, when I can find and afford them. They are indeed addictive.

htredneck said:

Careful... those 2nd gens get addictive!
Walker, Dragoon, 60 Army, 51 Navy, 61 Navy, couple 49 Pockets... love 'em all!

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That is my goal, to get as many Colt 2nd gens as I can...and still keep the lights on.

kh54 said:

I first bought the lowest priced reproductions I could find, then as I learned about different manufacturers and differences in quality I started trading up for what I believe are the better reproductions, i.e., Uberti, Cimarron, Taylor. Now I’m starting to trade up again for 2nd Gen reproductions, when I can find and afford them. They are indeed addictive.

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If you're in it as a Colt collector that's one thing but if you're still looking for "quality", you're backing up. Purely and simply, the 2nd Gens are '70's revolvers and need a good amount of work to get to today's Uberti's ( no offense Dickydalton!!).
Of course all can be made spectacular but new Ubertis/Pietta's are much closer to it than any '70's revolvers.

Mike

John V. said:

That is my goal, to get as many Colt 2nd gens as I can...and still keep the lights on.

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Lights are overrated!

Well I always found it good to be Enlightened but then maybe that is just me.

I know Mike will be thrilled to know I concur with him on the newer guns. Both the Pietta and the Uberti worked great timing wise. Sure they can be fine tuned for smooth, but function wise they are spot on.

Pietta ram on the 58 Rem sucks but a different ram or countour it resolves that part of mashing the balls and it would take a heck of a lot of testing to see if it makes any real different.

The 47 Walker ram distorts a bit but I am getting around 2 inch groups at 25 yards out of it so I am not worried. Getting used to the rest I bought and grips, sight picture is a learning curve. Filing the notch on the hammer got a better sight picture.

The old ASP is much smoother but it also had a major timing issue and clearly the bolt had been filed on the wrong side for whatever they were trying to correct.

I really don't want to get into in depth tuning, that in my opinion is best left to someone like Mike.

45D said:

If you're in it as a Colt collector that's one thing but if you're still looking for "quality", you're backing up. Purely and simply, the 2nd Gens are '70's revolvers and need a good amount of work to get to today's Uberti's ( no offense Dickydalton!!).
Of course all can be made spectacular but new Ubertis/Pietta's are much closer to it than any '70's revolvers.

Mike

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Point taken. I am pretty much done collecting Colts. I don’t have all models but I have what I wanted. They’re for lookin’ at. I’ve kept the Ubertis for shooting.

45D said:

If you're in it as a Colt collector that's one thing but if you're still looking for "quality", you're backing up. Purely and simply, the 2nd Gens are '70's revolvers and need a good amount of work to get to today's Uberti's ( no offense Dickydalton!!).
Of course all can be made spectacular but new Ubertis/Pietta's are much closer to it than any '70's revolvers.

Mike

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Why in the world would I buy an Uberti when I have you able to do that good amount of work to make my Colts the best of both worlds?