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I use eight different Piettas in Remington and Colt style with date codes ranging from 1996 to 2017. One is an 1997 1861 mod and I use a lot of T7. All run real well on stock Pietta cones. On my guns No. 11 caps are way too wide and will fall off from just gravity. I use Remington No. 10’s...

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Long Hunter Firearms has them. Their mod is called Slix-Hand.

It may not matter to some people but the 1851 is by far the more iconic American handgun. While 272,000 1851’s were made only 38,000 1861’s were manufactured. That’s roughly a 7:1 ratio - almost 8:1. During the War and the period of Westward Expansion, of the two, one would most likely...

I've been happily owning and shooting both mods for decades and still can't decide which is my favorite. I guess they both are. One idea is to just flip a coin, Heads you win, tails you win. Pietta's version of the 1861 is 1/2" too long in the barrel for historical perfection. I love mine...

Seems to be a bit of recent virtue signaling here about snakes. On my rural property I won’t suffer a venomous serpent to live. No apologies. Out on the trails I just go around them. I kill black widow spiders, too. When a rattler is coiled they’re pretty hard to miss with a pistol shot...

Seven grains in a .44? Why would anyone do that? What's the purpose, exactly? Do you get many squibs, second chance?

I’ve been using various Piettas for over fifty years and currently alternate between eight .44 & .36 open tops and Remingtons. I estimate that I have been shooting an average of about 1000 rounds per year over that time. I have never had a chain-fire, not even once. I witnessed one some years...

What kind of "oil"? That should really be clarified. Olive oil in a little dropper bottle is a handy thing. Works for both sealing and lube. Go to using petroleum based oil and you'd be screwed.

+1 on White Lithium Grease. Using a petroleum based oil on the cylinder pin is a big mistake. Never do that.

A C-note for all of that sounds just fine to me. Good trade.

Well, the fellow obviously requires our patience and after all, it doesn’t cost us anything. Hey, I like Remingtons … and Colts, too. Actually, I love em both. Many other knowledgable revolver shooters use Ballistol on the pins/arbors, too. It won’t stay ‘put’ for me - at least not for long...

My usual method is a dry felt wad (Durafelt) over powder. Then some lube over the wad (under the ball). Cards punched from half-gallon milk containers are impermeable to oil so I use those too sometimes, instead of a felt wad. Another method is a milk container card over powder then a well lubed...

Using Lubriplate 630 AA on the arbor/cylinder pin and a bee’s wax olive oil lube under the ball or conical I can expect up to 75 shots without cylinder binding. Sure, by then the bore is dirty with soft fowling but the cylinder still spins. I avoid petroleum based lubricants on the pin.

Cowboy LARP’ing aside, how many consecutive shots with an open-top or 58 Remington do you usually get with 3in1 on the arbor? I got 18 once as a kid and then ... full bind shutdown.

FishDfly, old boy - You sound as if you think you’re some pretty hot stuff. Steady-on now and regard thy self. It’s difficult to imagine anything worse to use on the cylinder pin / arbor than 3in1. Please don’t ask exactly how I know but I learned that in about 1967. I’ve been using white...

All of the C&B pistols at my place (eight so far) get used quite a lot. I do a full take-down on any individual gun about once a year or within ten months if I've been using one especially hard. Every time, I'll be pleasantly surprised at how clean things have stayed inside the frame case.

Welcome to the world of black powder Italian revolvers. Don’t worry, it gets better. I had that same problem with a Pietta 1860 once. Follow the advice above about smoothing the front section of the arbor with some various grades of paper. Make it real smooth. Wrap some paper around a dowel...

Knock yourself out, associate. Have a ball. I'll go shooting.

I'm reading a lot of complicated solutions to a problem that doesn't exist.