new for me sixshooter

[Trev]

I would guess that Benteen's "cylinder spring" that was so troublesome would be the trigger/bolt spring. Although several pounds of powder have gone through my Remington repro over the past 24 years without a hiccup; everything I've ever read about them suggested that the bolt spring was the weakest part, and the way it's made it would be difficult (perhaps impossible?) to fix without a spare. Of course the hand spring would be just hard to fix but it seems to be less troublesome from my reading.

I'd be pulling all the nipples and determining why that one blew. But I might have done a full break down and clean prior to shooting it, me being the way I am. Wonder if the nipple was undersized, metric in place SAE or vise versa.

 

[D Yager]

I have repaired a few that were worse than that one. Last major job was on a 2nd model Dragoon that was at the paperweight stage. It was resurrected and it has become one of my favorite shooters. Yours can be brought back to life and made into a solid and reliable piece. PM me if you want more info.

 

[sethwyo]

I have repaired a few that were worse than that one. Last major job was on a 2nd model Dragoon that was at the paperweight stage. It was resurrected and it has become one of my favorite shooters. Yours can be brought back to life and made into a solid and reliable piece. PM me if you want more info.

Its alive an living the life of a .44 single action
been my third favorite for sometime now, wasn't really happy with it for awhile mostly because it wasn't quite what was advertised, but iv gotten over that

 

[smoothshooter]

Didn't get to 18 shots, one of the nipples blew out when i fired it, it skipped the cylinder locked the hammer back and blew red grease out on my hand.

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I think it’s time for a new gun.

 

[Bad Karma]

Its alive an living the life of a .44 single action
been my third favorite for sometime now, wasn't really happy with it for awhile mostly because it wasn't quite what was advertised, but iv gotten over that

Endeavor to persevere! Well done…

 

[sethwyo]

I think it’s time for a new gun.

NEVOR ! ! !

 

[M. De Land]

Didn't get to 18 shots, one of the nipples blew out when i fired it, it skipped the cylinder locked the hammer back and blew red grease out on my hand.

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Wow, I've never even heard of a nipple blowing out of a cylinder before.
The latch pillar is dovetailed into my 60 Pietta barrel .

 

[D Yager]

Used to happen on my Walker, found the holes were bored oversized with very shallow threads. After getting hit in the face by an air borne nipple I re threaded the holes for T/C hot shot nipples and they've been there ever since.

 

[M. De Land]

Used to happen on my Walker, found the holes were bored oversized with very shallow threads. After getting hit in the face by an air borne nipple I re threaded the holes for T/C hot shot nipples and they've been there ever since.

Dang , glad you didn't loose an eye. Who made your Walker ?

 

[M. De Land]

Used to happen on my Walker, found the holes were bored oversized with very shallow threads. After getting hit in the face by an air borne nipple I re threaded the holes for T/C hot shot nipples and they've been there ever since.

That reminds me of an incident at an indoor shooting range some 25 years ago where a shooter next to me got a slam fire in his range rented 1911. I heard a funny sounding discharge, looked over and he was bent over holding his face in his hand when suddenly I notice a drip drip drip oozing out his fingers and pooling on the floor. He looked up at me in a daze as he straightened up and his shooting glasses over both eyes were fragged with brass splinters. All the blood on the floor was coming from the end of his exposed nose. Had he not had on the shooting glasses both eyes would have most likely been gone !

 

[D Yager]

It's made by ASM. Other than the short arbor and the poorly fitted nipples it's been a good solid pistol. Of course the short arbor issue required some major work to get it back on track. It did stretch the frame to the point you couldn't keep the wedge in. It literally tried to fold the wedge into a steel taco. I made a new wedge after fixing the all the issues and have never had a problem with it since.

 

[M. De Land]

It's made by ASM. Other than the short arbor and the poorly fitted nipples it's been a good solid pistol. Of course the short arbor issue required some major work to get it back on track. It did stretch the frame to the point you couldn't keep the wedge in. It literally tried to fold the wedge into a steel taco. I made a new wedge after fixing the all the issues and have never had a problem with it since.

Good save !!! I also get a real charge out of bringing back old solders to life but in my case it's usually single shot rifles.
I belong to a group of old timers that get together each Thursday PM for a show and tell of our recent acquisitions. I like to bring in old guns brought back to life using as many of the original parts as can be saved and restored to function without loosing their character or story.
Most of the guys only like "pristine patina guns" with little to no use wear of stock or steel. I like the ones that have been "rode hard and put away wet" but taken care of internally, function perfectly and still have the scars to tell their story.
Owning pristine patina stuff I never shoot makes me yawn but then I couldn't afford most of them any way even if I did desire stewardship of them for awhile.
One of the guys that comes has one of the best collections of fine high quality guns of every description I've ever seen and when I ask him how it shoots he almost always replies "I've never fired it"! I'm gonna stop asking as it's hard not to telegraph a surprised look !