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Nothing to worry about, the pirates on the Spanish Main were probably even worse shots.

With the correct dimensions, including the frame and cylinder? I sure would. No safety markings would be great too.

For cleaning the rust out of old parts, without removing original metal, having a tap that's a little smaller in diameter would be safer.

Are you sure it isn't #12 - 32? That's real close to .225 (.218 I think) and the same number of threads per inch. 12 - 32 taps are fairly common, but not as common as 8s and 10s.

Mine says "Dixie Gun Works Union City Tennessee Made in Belgium 319". 45 cal. also. I bought it new and I thought that was in the 1960's but maybe I'm remembering that wrong. The ones that say "Turner Kirkland" would be older, I would think.

I think 1967 was the last good year - after that things started going to heck. I was 20 years old, the cars were fast, the girls were pretty, and there were no computers.

Track of the Wolf has .340 cast round balls - they work good in my Numrich underhammer with a .350 bore

That creates a problem with the sights.

I built a mule ear pistol out of a 10 inch cut-off 36 caliber rifle barrel. The twist is 1-48 - like Nick says, that not really the right thing for a pistol and the accuracy isn't great.

Looks like you did a good job of caring for it all these years. The Italian company that made it is Uberti, no "M" in it. Take it out and shoot it again, the world still needs Western bad *****!

He must have small hands - or that piece of wood wasn't quite big enough but he used it anyway.

I didn't realize they were still sending the American Rifleman magazine. I have been a life member of the NRA since the 1960's but haven't gotten one for many years.

I think you will find a "G.U." mark on the bottom flat of the barrel, under the loading lever. If so, it's a Uberti. I have number 1650, marked XVII. Yours is in beautiful condition, mine is pretty rough.

I think it's a first variation of the Allen and Wheelock - how are the nipples threaded into the cylinder? Could it be that they are installed from inside the holes? More pictures would be great! The Federal gov't did buy a few of these during the war. It's a rare gun and seems to be in darn...

I understand the geometry of the sight alignment vs point of impact - but at least for me, burying the front sight in the notch just covers up the target, unless the rear sight would be a real wide shallow "V" (which it isn't on a revolver). I always line up the tops of the front and rear...

Lowering the top would be the opposite of raising the front, but lowering the bottom of the notch - how does that help?

I don't completely understand how filing the notch in the rear sight would help. At least for me, it's the top of the sight that counts.

The original Remington navy had a cylinder that was 1/8 inch smaller in diameter, and the opening in the frame was narrower by that amount. The length of the cylinder was the same as the army. The loading ram was smaller (of course) and the hole in the frame for that too. The grip frame was the...

I have one also. There must be some variations of them, mine has a blade front sight and finger grooves on the grip. Maybe you used those .357 wadcutters with no patch? Mine has a bore of .352 so those bullets would be a nice tight fit.

Lodgewood in Janesville Wisconsin would do a good job. It's a valuable gun and needs to be carefully repaired. The nipple holes are not parallel to the sides of the cylinder, they are at an angle.