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  1. Dashing Leper

    Umberti 1858 date code

    Not quite. In 2020 they started using '20' and here in 2021 new guns have a '21' code. If the pattern holds up, next year in 2022 they're going to revert to using Morse code dots-and-dashes.
  2. Dashing Leper

    Have you defarbed your percussion revolver?

    As I understand it, modern replicas have modern thread pitches. No matter how comprehensive the superficial defarb job is, nobody is going to be able to pass an Italian replica off as an antique unless you really work at it.
  3. Dashing Leper

    Have you defarbed your percussion revolver?

    Vinegar does not create rust, it removes it (gun bluing is just a stable form of rust). You're not going to create any pitting or corrode away base steel with a vinegar bath.
  4. Dashing Leper

    Powder Identification

    Another thing to worry about is if someone got the bright idea of mixing substitutes together or, worse still, substitutes with black powder.
  5. Dashing Leper

    Finger in the trigger guard on single action revolvers?

    Navy likes to park their reactor school in Idaho so, if someone messes up, the worst damage you get are killer mutant potatoes... ...those would really suck as horror movie monsters, you see.
  6. Dashing Leper

    Weird combination

    A project idea of mine is to take a new 7.5" 1851 barrel and re-dovetail it with the loading lever off a 5.5" model. Change the silhouette to resemble a later gun with a pin shroud. I'll bamboozle folks by saying it's to prevent snagging in a quick-draw.
  7. Dashing Leper

    official gun of Texas

    If California were to adopt a State Gun (no laughing, please) it would have to be an 1849 Colt Pocket Revolver.
  8. Dashing Leper

    Saddle holsters

    They're called pommel holsters, designed to sling a pair of dragoon pistols (revolvers or the old single-shot variety) along both sides of the saddle horn.
  9. Dashing Leper

    Cap and ball revolver firing bird shot

    A Dragoon is probably the better platform for a snakeshot load as the longer chamber leaves room for the stuff.
  10. Dashing Leper

    Half cock

    The 1860 Colt is a "three click" gun, and half-cock (and the freewheel) happens on the first click. You get an 1873 SAA with a safety cock (a classic four-click model) and the first click is that safety while half-cock happens on the second. As to Hollywood-style roulette, that may have...
  11. Dashing Leper

    Interchangeability

    I have swapped cylinders between a pair of 1860 Armys with no issue, and my Leech & Rigdon barrel/cylinder combo is sitting in the frame from a new 1851. All Ubertis, with no changes in gap characteristics and they clearly cycle just fine. I found swapping grips can be hit-or-miss when it comes...
  12. Dashing Leper

    Cap Channel Missing on Uberti Dragoon

    I'm holding an Uberti Dragoon and Walker side-by-side. Their water table and recoil shield dimensions are identical in length and width. The most obvious differences in the frame are the screw holes through the Dragoon's right side and the fact the Walker's arbor is considerably longer.
  13. Dashing Leper

    Dragoon Arbor is Possibly Uneven

    I dropped a thin appliance washer down the well of my first Dragoon and could not get the wedge in. I will have to repeat the process with my other Dragoon and maybe the Walker as well to gauge their wells.
  14. Dashing Leper

    Colt Walker question?

    If I were taking my Walker out on a hunt, I'd simply take the lever off the gun after loading and tuck it away with the kit. Eliminates the concern entirely.
  15. Dashing Leper

    Interchangeability of revolver parts

    The oval of an Uberti 1860 trigger guard is a little shorter than that of a Navy guard. This doesn't matter if you swap an 1860 grip into an 1851 frame because the triggers themselves are the same length, but keep in mind an 1873 Colt's trigger is actually longer. The 1860 Army guard will fit...
  16. Dashing Leper

    Refinishing cap & ball revolver grips

    I tried taking just the clearcoat off my Ubertis to use the red as an undercoat for something in black or brown but the Uberti stain itself is some kind of plastic, so I had to sand all the way down to the bare wood. Uberti Leech & Ridgon with a new grip stolen off a dead Cattleman, stained...
  17. Dashing Leper

    Round ball with sprue

    If there were any voids or bubbles in the cast, they will most likely be near the sprue. Loading the ball sprue-up ensures you put any voids in the ball as far from the charge as possible.
  18. Dashing Leper

    1851 navy

    I picked up a cap and ball Cattleman as a prop/paperweight and cannibalized the blued steel grip for use on my Leech & Rigdon. Now I have what is essentially a round-barreled 1851 Navy with London-style grips.
  19. Dashing Leper

    Load for Brass 1851 navy

    My Uberti Leech & Rigdon will not shave a .375 Hornady, and when I tapped the ball out again there was at a least one spot on the edge where it did not swage the lead. It's an invitation for a round walking out under recoil, if not a chainfire. That box of .375 is meltstock at this point.
  20. Dashing Leper

    which diameter lead round ball ?

    Pepperboxes are rifled? If they're not, I don't think you have to worry about press-fit.
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