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  1. Dashing Leper

    revolver date codes

    My new Uberti Dragoon that I got today has the date code [21] moved to the bottom of the frame instead of the side, so I guess that's going to be a new thing they do.
  2. Dashing Leper

    Percussion cap availability- when??

    The prices/demand of unmentionable ammunition would have to go down well before manufacturers decide to divert their supplies of priming compound into caps.
  3. Dashing Leper

    revolver date codes

    Brand new Uberti Leech & Rigdon. It has the year 2020 laser-etched with the serial on the bottom of the frame beneath the brass of the trigger guard, and then the proof mark on the side is a 20 in the rectangle. So, Yes: they switched to the Arabic numerals for the year code. You can actually...
  4. Dashing Leper

    Uberti 1851 issue

    The moniker came about when I was channelling my Ricky Bobby on a race car forum. Cuz' I'm a really fast cat... 🤔 I really, really like my new Leech & Rigdon, but by golly, Uberti left a disturbingly large amount of extraneous metal inside the gun. Two of the chambers still had leftover steel...
  5. Dashing Leper

    Uberti 1851 issue

    My Uberti Dragoon came in with a massive burr along the right side of the hand, causing it to bind up when I first field-stripped it and cycled the action. Dressing it cleared that problem up. Then my latest Uberti acquisition (a Navy) also came in with a sticky hand: the action was rough right...
  6. Dashing Leper

    Crazy bidding on Gunbroker

    My new Leech & Rigdon came from Midway last week. It was the darndest thing: I come to learn the L&R is essentially an 1851 with a round barrel, so I start poking around the usual places for one and would you know it I actually managed to find it available at Midway... ...so of course my first...
  7. Dashing Leper

    Lets see some percussion revolvers!

    Yeah, I my mind I don't see my gun as a representation of a Leech & Rigdon, but rather as an 1851 Navy with a factory-option round barrel. I figured that anyone with a Pietta G&G and a steel 1851 could do a swap and end up with an L&R replica and a brass Navy to play around with.
  8. Dashing Leper

    Lets see some percussion revolvers!

    Soon as I learned about how Uberti offered a Colt 1851 Navy with a round barrel (sold as the Leech & Rigdon Navy) I got lucky and found one in stock soon as I began searching. I prefer the busy look of the Colt Old Model barrel assembly over that of the New Model, but I am put off by the 1851...
  9. Dashing Leper

    Modern vs. Period Black Powder

    This got me curious. Seems the early forms of chronographs depended on two paper targets at set distance rotating on a common axis at a known speed. The bullet would pass through both targets and you measured the angular displacement between the two marks to calculate shot velocity.
  10. Dashing Leper

    Powders

    In case anyone is wondering, the other side of this coin are the black powder grades with an 'a' at the end instead of the 'g'. These powders are used in blast charges and fireworks, and the fineness scale of 'a' powders is very different from 'g' powders. For example, what we call a 3Fg pistol...
  11. Dashing Leper

    .451 or .454?

    Round ball is the lightest projectile you can go without putting a hollow into it. If something with the smallest possible inertia is shifting under recoil, I dare say the issue is with an imperfection in the chamber rather than the swaging of the ball.
  12. Dashing Leper

    Loading 5?or loading 6?

    How feasible, whether today or in a historical sense, would it be to load 6 but cap 5? If the shooter of days yonder wanted six shots in the cylinder but also wanted the hammer stowed someplace safe, he could have done this. You'll have the five in ready-use and can get a sixth primed up within...
  13. Dashing Leper

    44 Cal Loading Question

    In a rifle, you always have this risk of a spark or ember setting off the fresh charge of powder and you can't always be sure things are cold unless you took the barrel off. In a revolver, however, the chambers are open to inspection and manual clearing, which means you can verify/rectify any...
  14. Dashing Leper

    Why are shoulder stocks so popular on the replica 1860 Army and 3rd Model Dragoons?

    The critical difference between the 1851 and 1860 being nothing more than the size of the grips, right? Meaning that if you replace the grip with one to match the other, you could conceivably get a stock that should go onto either gun.
  15. Dashing Leper

    Why are shoulder stocks so popular on the replica 1860 Army and 3rd Model Dragoons?

    I'm pretty sure the one reason Uberti gives the 3rd Pattern Dragoon a Cut-For-Stock frame is to give it a little more differentiation from the 2nd Pattern Dragoon. Without a CFS frame, the only difference between the 2nd and 3rd Dragoons would be the trigger guard, a single piece of brass that...
  16. Dashing Leper

    Pistol paper cartridges

    Hat over heart if the missus is going to charge you by the hour for time spent at the kitchen table filling cartridges.
  17. Dashing Leper

    Black powder cap and ball pistols

    A burr on the chamber mouth will do it. Shaves the round a little smaller than what seats against the chamber walls. Add the fact that a spherical round only makes contact with the chamber walls in a relatively thin band around the circumference of the ball.
  18. Dashing Leper

    Hollow Bases

    It'd spit lead out of the cylinder gap, I reckon.
  19. Dashing Leper

    Chain used with 18th century shooting accessories

    I don't know the appropriate name in this context, but this is remarkably similar to a chatelaine, the "keychain" worn by the lady of the house.
  20. Dashing Leper

    Timing issue?

    Simply put: at half-cock the cylinder moves only halfway to the next chamber. We take advantage of this when prying the barrel off the frame via the loading rammer
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