brass frame

[J.S. Colt]

You can actually turn the base pin in a half-turn or so and eliminate the slack. Have seen it done before and it works just fine. Be sure to grind away the excess pin protruding into the hammer cavity. Easier than welding, etc.
FWIW, I have a brass framed Navy that has had thousands of rounds thru it and did find that it stretched out after many years of use. Just have to knock the wedge in a little further. When that doesn't do the trick, I'll do what's described above for another twenty years or so of use...

 

[John Taylor]

Hope the picture comes through OK. I don't think setting the pin back a half turn will do the trick on this one. The recoil shield would need some work. Notice how the back of the cylinder has the edges rolled over where it meets the brass and the brass is hammered back.

 

[Leatherbark]

Depends on the brass......I've had three brass framed revolvers over the last 30 years........One FIE Remington (Junk with a capital "J"). Frame started warping after a while.....A Navy Arms "Reb". Cylinder pin got very loose after a few hundred rounds. My third was an "Armsport" 1860. Shot this one for at least 13 years and I too probably shot at least a box or more a year of .451 balls in it. The cylinder pin was as tight as new when I gave it away to a friend. So I figured some of the brass used may be of a weaker structure in some guns............Bob

 

[Blizzard of '93]

I've never owned a Navy model but have owned 2 Pietta '58 Rem. 'Buffalo' 12" barrel brass framed revolvers. I now have a steel framed one but wish I had kept the brass ones. I regularly shot them loading 28 gr. 3F under RB's and 24 gr 3F under Lee conical slug. with a lubed felt wad - no problem at all. I estimate I shot each one maybe 600 shots. I carried the conical load when woods roaming or hunting with mates and used RB's for general fun plinking. Accuracy was good and power was there, hard to say how much as I never took a sizeable game animal with either one. I have with the steel-framed one that I load hot for hunting with Lee conicals using a .32 ACP caseful of 4F under the main charge of 3F.

 

[cheatherly]

Thank you sir.I do believe this forum is the place for me.

 

[Dave Rosenthal]

A walker or a Dragoon will make lots of smoke. With a 50 gr. charge of 3F, a .454 RB and a ox-yoke wonder-wad, the Walker makes holes so fast that the paper gets "cut" instead of split at 25 yds...the Walker can take it!

Good luck with your next purchase.

Dave