Do not buy an 1862 Police from Midway

[woodsnwater]

I don't know if they get factory seconds or if they are all junk. It took me 4 hrs to get it to even cycle. The cylinder was hitting the frame and the barrel and rough machine work throughout. Buy a used one made before 2020!

 

[rusticbob]

Who is this pistol made by?

 

[woodsnwater]

Uberti.

 

[64Springer]

You made the correct call, OP.

All junk.

Yet people can't throw their hard earned money at the Italians fast enough.

 

[GYJ]

Hmmm. Two of the nicest Uberti's I own came from Midway in the last several months.

 

[Stantheman86]

The wedge is probably tight, once you get it all apart , cleaned up and reassembled it will most likely work fine. Sometimes they knock the wedge in too far

Do you have a pic of the rough machine work?

 

[azmntman]

you pays yo money and you takes yo chance

 

[Stantheman86]

You made the correct call, OP.

All junk.

Yet people can't throw their hard earned money at the Italians fast enough.

I know I can't, they'll never be this cheap again. Even bought 2 Uberti cartridge guns

$300 Piettas will be a dream in 2 years

I crushed MidWays sales and picked up bunches of Spaghetti blasters and round balls . I had guns coming to my door 2 or 3 at a time

 

[64Springer]

For the price of two Italian revolvers a person can buy a Ruger Old Army and have a highly reliable revolver that will perform for generations.

 

[Stantheman86]

For the price of two Italian revolvers a person can buy a Ruger Old Army and have a highly reliable revolver that will perform for generations.

I have Ruger SA's in nearly every caliber they made, if I want to play with a Ruger I have to use the "suppositories"

I'm a history nerd , a front stuffer Blackhawk never got my juices flowing which is weird because I'm a huge Ruger fanboi. I've almost bought an Old Army probably 100 times , even a few years back when Ruger made a limited run for Davidson's. I just couldn't do it. The Old Army always struck me as like a 1970s Steampunk retro-fitted percussion revolver that looks like an 1858 Remington and a .45 Blackhawk had a love child in 1972

I would probably buy a fixed sight blue Old Army to sit in my safe next to the other Rugers I rarely shoot

 

[DixieTexian]

Saw on r/blackpowder where someone got a .36 from midway with a .44 loading lever from midway. You takes your chances.

 

[Flintlock]

For the price of two Italian revolvers a person can buy a Ruger Old Army and have a highly reliable revolver that will perform for generations.

Might as well by a Glock, about as historically accurate as one.

 

[45D]

Actually, a ROA isn't a reproduction of anything. It's a first gen . . . an original. It's a "wish there was an American made cap gun . . . " .

Mike

 

[poker]

Might as well by a Glock, about as historically accurate as one.

Whats historically accurate about any of the above?

 

[45D]

Whats historically accurate about any of the above?

The Ruger hasn't been copied so it is, like I said, an original. There are two models - Adjustable sight and fixed sight variations.

Mike

 

[Flintlock]

The Ruger hasn't been copied so it is, like I said, an original. There are two models - Adjustable sight and fixed sight variations.

Mike

Yeah and it has about as much in common with the copies of civil war era guns as a Glock. He wanted a small historical style pistol and ordered one, he didn't want a big 20th century style revolver although they are dang good.

 

[64Springer]

I have Ruger SA's in nearly every caliber they made, if I want to play with a Ruger I have to use the "suppositories"

I'm a history nerd , a front stuffer Blackhawk never got my juices flowing which is weird because I'm a huge Ruger fanboi. I've almost bought an Old Army probably 100 times , even a few years back when Ruger made a limited run for Davidson's. I just couldn't do it. The Old Army always struck me as like a 1970s Steampunk retro-fitted percussion revolver that looks like an 1858 Remington and a .45 Blackhawk had a love child in 1972

I would probably buy a fixed sight blue Old Army to sit in my safe next to the other Rugers I rarely shoot

I bought and retardedly sold a first generation Vaquero in polished stainless steel that was built on the Blackhawk frame. Beefy gun.

Every time I open the safe and look where it once sat, I kick myself.

But then I drag out my Colt sized Vaquero in .45 Colt and feel better about life.

My hunting revolver is a Ruger Blackhawk with 7.5 inch barrel in .45 Colt. She wears a zinc parkerized finish and red dot scope.

 

[Stantheman86]

I bought and retardedly sold a first generation Vaquero in polished stainless steel that was built on the Blackhawk frame. Beefy gun.

Every time I open the safe and look where it once sat, I kick myself.

But then I drag out my Colt sized Vaquero in .45 Colt and feel better about life.

My hunting revolver is a Ruger Blackhawk with 7.5 inch barrel in .45 Colt. She wears a zinc parkerized finish and red dot scope.

I have a .45 LC Lee Loader, a pile of .45 LC brass and my blued small frame "New Vaquero" .45 with the dream of maybe finding primers and .45 bullets to load BP cartridges for it

 

[sheriff john]

Problem's not with the seller, it's the manufacturer.

 

[64Springer]

I have a .45 LC Lee Loader, a pile of .45 LC brass and my blued small frame "New Vaquero" .45 with the dream of maybe finding primers and .45 bullets to load BP cartridges for it

Do it.

Fun. Fun. Fun.