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These Centaures aka Centennial Armies Erik is refering to feature # no logo: 1959 to later in 1960 production # the "rampant centaur" logo (rifle pointing to the left and about parallel to water table of frame): later in 1960 to some time in 1964 production # the "walking centaur" logo (rifle...

FWIW try sorting them by # caliber # proof marks or # other markings or # legends between naval scene ends # absence or presence of cylinder engraving plus style of naval scenes, etc. and take it from there. The Belgian Centennials will have the ELG in oval proof mark, the 2nd and 3rd gen...

Bravo 4-4 and all: 2nd gen or 3rd gen Armies - how about a compromise? Get a Belgian brother of the venerable 19th century Colt Army aka Centaure aka Centennial Army instead. These Armies were produced by Fabriques d'Armes Unies de Liège (FAUL) between 1959 and 1973 under a license from Sam...

Good luck, DD! Long Johns Wolf

Italian now defunct Armi san Marco (ASM) made these round barrel Pockets during the 1960s and 1970s. I have no idea when their production was discontinued. May be Jim Davis of RPRCA can help here with additional information? Long Johns Wolf

Could be a Remington NMA clone made by Witloe Precision, Inc., Collingdale, PA, U.S.A. If memory serves they made this model before the Italians got started during the 1950s. At $ 50.00 a Witloe Remmy is a steal! Picture would help. Long Johns Wolf

S/N in the 1200 range? Would mean making 1961. Should be a good shooter but would be more valuable as a collector's piece. Appreciate pics and S/N per PM to add the pistol to the Centaure & FROCS website www.1960nma.org. Thanks Long Johns Wolf

Check www.1960nma.org which is the website of Centaures & FROCS FRiends Of the Centaure Society. Or send me an email at [email protected] with a few pics and serial number of this Belgian made Colt 1860 pattern pistol. I will gladly tell you what variant of the Centaure you have. Long Johns Wolf

Congrats, excellent shooting. Long Johns Wolf

Mine is a 2009 custom rebuilt called FROCS Special of the famous Centaure 4" barrel Pocket Army Model. The latter was sold during the early 1960s by Centennial Arms Corp. of Lincolnwood, IL. Tested her on the long-range recently like on 25 and 50 m. Disappointing, too much drop of these round...

I suggest you use an external loading press. Mine has a 4" barrel. For me this type of loading rod is for looks only but just does not work. It's fun to shoot the pistol, however. Mine is connecting 2" slightly low and to the left of POA at 15 yards. Long Johns Wolf

ZUG & campfire: when it comes to Italy made Colt or Remington clones your measurements are in line with our observations in a test we did in Winter 2011/12 on various C&B Revolvers of different makers. Most were .44 cal, however. Incidentally, we found similar data for 2nd and 3rd gen Colts...

As long as chamber dia and barrel groove dia are the same you are OK in the accuracy department. Long Johns Wolf

.451 in balls are recommended for the Belgian Centaures (aka Centennial Armies) 'cause their groove and chamber size diameter is an identical .446 in. Long Johns Wolf

Regarding #3 & FWIW: I don't know about the .31 cal C&B revolvers but in the original .36 and .44 caliber C&B Remington and Colt revolvers that I measured it appears that these guns were built with undersized chambers back then compared to their rifling groove dia. This was copied by the...

Because they are a rare breed from USFA (no matter who made the semi-finished gun). 2nd & particularly 3rd gen Colt C&B Revolvers also have their Italian heritage and are collected. Long Johns Wolf

FWIW: I visited USFA in Hartford around Feb. 2002 or 2003. There were racks full of percussion revolvers "in the white" sans visible markings and proof marks. At that time I was not particularly interested in C&B Revolvers so I do not remember which models that were. A bunch were 1851s and...

The factory front sight of your S.B. Remmy may be dovetailed or just soldered. Long Johns Wolf

Many of the pards here shooting frontierman use coffee meal as a filler in their percussion revolvers. It is prefered over grits because it is nicely compressable. Most are using it with a loading machine. They collect the coffee meal from the coffee machines in their companies, dry it in the...

Well...I miked chamber mouths and barrel groove dia of some 50 newly made C&B pistols of Colt Walker, Whitneyville Hartford, 1860, Remington NM 1863, R&S 1865 pattern recently. The makers were Belgium: FAUL/Centaure Italy: Armi san Paolo, Euroarms, Uberti, 2nd & 3rd gen Colt Spain: Santa Barbara...