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  1. Dashing Leper

    Pyrodex Cleaning issues?

    Sulfuric acid is formed when sulfur is dissolved by water. Any free sulfur present in blackpowder residue will pick up moisture from the air and there's your acid attack.
  2. Dashing Leper

    Uberti 1860 strange screw location

    The Navy revolver was so-named to honor a previous order of Patersons for the Texas Navy in the 1840's. The .36 caliber belt revolver of 1851 was originally going to be called the Ranger Model (contrasted with the .44 Dragoon)
  3. Dashing Leper

    Boiling water!

    Boiling hot water is a good way to get the grease in the bore soft and runny enough for whatever fouling lay beneath to be carried away. That's probably why the advocation is for hot water rather than cold.
  4. Dashing Leper

    Uberti 1860 strange screw location

    Have one myself, and I kind of regret not ordering the 1860 'Civilian' Model instead. Same gun, except without those screws and has a brass backstrap.
  5. Dashing Leper

    Very stupid, very lucky

    The lesson to be learned: "Don't squeeze off another fellow's load. Especially that of your cousin's..."
  6. Dashing Leper

    "Panic"? Buys

    I was settling on just having the Dragoon for my birthday back in February, but figured I would need a second gun if they were ever going up above the fireplace some day. So I rushed out to get the 1860 before the sky fell in.
  7. Dashing Leper

    Ovality & Variations In Chambers

    Speedloader. Park some measured charges in each cylinder. When times comes to reload you put the fired cylinder over this one, line up the holes and flip the joined pair over like an hourglass.
  8. Dashing Leper

    Italian Date Codes

    In my own web search for the most recent date code chart, I came across this one: http://berettausa.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/101/session/L3RpbWUvMTI5OTcwNTMyNy9zaWQvbUlUWUt3b2s= It deviates from the one above at the year 2012. I have two new Ubertis with a date code of CU as well as...
  9. Dashing Leper

    1847 Walker

    After 173 years, I dare say the wedge on every original now goes all the way in.
  10. Dashing Leper

    snake load for my Remington

    I wonder if a long-cylinder weapon such as a Walker or Dragoon suits best as a snake-load trail gun. The chambers are deeper than most other guns so you can load more shot.
  11. Dashing Leper

    Col. LeMat’s Grapeshot Revolvers?

    Is this to suggest that the LeMat user should turn tail because they're essentially missing a gun?
  12. Dashing Leper

    Storing lead conical and round bullets

    Oxygen absorbers work when the package contents contain moisture (like packaged food, for example). Those packets are simply powdered iron and salt-- the moisture kick-starts the rusting process that consumes whatever oxygen is inside.
  13. Dashing Leper

    arbor

    My previous purchase was an Uberti Dragoon that doesn't have this problem. The wedge on the 1848 locks against the gun perfectly fine and a thin washer dropped in the well proved the arbor bottomed out on its own. I didn't know what anyone was talking about when speaking of short arbors until I...
  14. Dashing Leper

    arbor

    My Uberti 1860 came in with the loosest wedge imaginable. With the retaining screw removed, it slid all the way up to the shoulder with no resistance. I used JB Weld to affix a brass nut to the front of the arbor and filed away until the barrel just seats onto the frame. Now the wedge tightens...
  15. Dashing Leper

    Case for an 1847 Walker

    Walkers are a little under 16 inches in overall length. It should fit that 19.5 inch model straight across. I will attest to anyone who is interested that the large pistol rug offered by Taylors' is just large enough to fit a Dragoon. And mean it just about fits it comfortably-- something as...
  16. Dashing Leper

    Colt’s Dragoons!?

    Here's my Dragoon alongside her younger sister. Unfortunately, neither of them have tasted fire since the proof house and won't do so until the shooting ranges reopen in the wake of this crisis.
  17. Dashing Leper

    Uberti 1860 Fourth Screw Problem

    Here's a picture of the left frame with the stock screw removed. You can see the hand through the hole, which demonstrates the problem if the screw is a little too long.
  18. Dashing Leper

    Uberti 1860 Fourth Screw Problem

    The left side of the frame is thinner at that spot than the right, though. The stock screws are short enough as it is, but in the case of the left side it protruded into the frame by a millimeter and made contact with the hand (I assume the snapping sound was the hand being freed as I pulled the...
  19. Dashing Leper

    what's acceptable space over ball in revolver

    Someone who uses lube over the chamber instead of a wad would be better off with some space between the round and the lip, as the side blast could strip away much of that lube from adjacent chambers. So setting a round deeper into the chamber can't be seen as completely detrimental.
  20. Dashing Leper

    Uberti 1860 Fourth Screw Problem

    I just received an Uberti 1860 Army this week and promptly took it apart for cleaning. When I unscrewed the shoulder stock lug on the left side of the frame, there was a loud snap. Upon closer examination I saw that these stock screws, while short, are just long enough so the left one actually...
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