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Found these marks on the inside of the triggerguard of a Uberti 1860! Long Johns Wolf

If there is a WESTERNER'S ARMS barrel marking the maker is Uberti. Long Johns Wolf

If memory serves the only Italian makers of steel frame Colt 1860 Armies replicas during the middle of the 1960s were Armi san Marco (ASM) and Uberti. Both companies fitted steel back straps. There might be more stamps and also makers marks visible under the frame when you remove the...

It is my understanding that all Italian percussion replicas incl. the 2nd and 3rd gen Colts have chambers' dia thare are less than the rifling groove dia. Why? Because they replicated the originals from the 19th century. Exceptions are the Belgian made Centaures (Colt 1860 pattern) were the...

I don't know about the .36 cal. Pietta made percussion revolvers. At some time in the 2000s - ca. 2010? - Pietta adjusted the rifling groove dia of their .44 cal. percussion revolvers to chamber mouth diameter to optimize accuracy like what you have in a modern cartridge revolver. This approach...

My congrats, AB, I envy you: an almost NIB Centaure from 1959/1960, 3 digits S/N and the original carton from Centennial Arms Corp., Lincolnwood, IL, what a find. Please, send me the S/N and inspector code at [email protected]. I'd like to add her to the data bank for the Centaure & FROCS website...

Looks like a mostly blued 4-screw frame 1860 Long Cylinder conversion (LCC)to me, with 5,5" barrel. These conversions kept the loading lever w/o function. Allegedly LCCs were made from Colt parts in a few shops Mexico in .44 Henry RF cal. after the CW. Later some were converted again to shoot...

I would gladly post a pic of such a screw ... if I knew how to do that?! Long Johns Wolf

Uberti offers alternative pairs of 4th screws which are almost flat with the frame. Long Johns Wolf

I have a Centaure - licensed Belgian re-issue of the venerable Colt 1860 Army - custom Long Cylinder conversion with the rear sight dove-tailed on the barrel lug. The conversion artist who did the project replicated the real thing. Like on the Uberti Man with no Name pistol. Unfortunately I am...

Your Centaure is a regular production revolver, no preproduction or even a prototype. We could not discover yet why the early ones had no logo, the intermediate ones got the rampant centaur logo and the later ones the walking centaur logo. Europeans call these 1860 pattern C&B revolvers of FAUL...

According to our Centaure research program only some 50 specimens were delivered to the UK in the early 1960s and another handful in the early 1970s. But ca. 8.000 were sold to the continent of Europe, the majority to Germany. If you happen to be in Germany around July 14/15, 2018 we have our...

# Your Centaure #773 is a Regular New Model Army (RNMA) 1st Variation 1st Sub-Variation. She is from 1960. The lowest serial number recorded in the Centaure & FROCS data bank of an RNMA with logo is #1153. These Centaure C&B revolvers were made by Fabriques d'Armes Unies de Liège (FAUL) in...

I guess the reasoning back in the 19th century was the makers like Colt did not trust their steel. Hence the oversize rifling groove dia vs. chamber mouth. You get a lot of gas leakage and the balls are kind of rattling down the barrel. But the soldiers back then were supposed to use their...

Yes, it is a copy of a gun that never were. And there is another reason for this type of guns. If you look at it from the European angle I can tell you there are countries that I am not mentioning. These countries have gun legislations that are just ... strange. One of these countries has such...

I read somewhere that the double diamonds were the logo of Italian replica maker EUROMANUFACTURE. I have one of their Patersons of 1971 making with 9" barrel and extra cylinder. On this Paterson the double diamonds logo is tamped under the barrel. Long Johns Wolf

Correct, Fistmil. If they happen to be 3rd gens they should have the Sam Colt signature on the backstrap. Long Johns Wolf

THE book on 2nd and 3rd gen Colt percussion revolvers: PERCUSSION COLT REVOLVERS THE SECOND GENERATION COLLECTOR'S HANDBOOK & PRICE GUIDE BY DENNIS RUSSELL The book is self published and available from Dennis Russell, c/o Jared Press, 3162 Johnson Ferry Rd, Suite 260 - 607, Marietta, GA 30062...

Spanish made Santa Barbara Reminton New Model Armies and Belgian made Centaures ("1960 NEW MODEL ARMY") don't have the BLACKPOWDER ONLY marking. Long Johns Wolf

Go to the Centaure & FROCS Website www.1960nma.org, click Models & Variations on the left Navigation bar, click FROCS Special or 4th Variation of the Pocket Army. "How to" instructions incl. dimensional info are available there as a download when you scroll down the FROCS Special page. Long...