Pietta 1851 .36 needs reamed

[Stantheman86]

Pietta told me that they don't heat treat their barrels after I emailed them about wedge-slot peening.......with an attitude like "don't use them so much then "

 

[1861colt]

Sorry, I didnt proof read that post.

 

[bang]

I have a 1973 Replica Arms 1861. It happens to be a true .36 in that it is a .375 bore using a .380 ball. It is quite annoying the manufacturers now will not make the bores the correct size. They did what they want not what is correct, even though they are correct verywhere else. Now off my soap box. My gun was made with the barrel not extending far enough back from the web. I can't just file back the web or the wedge won't work. To get the right cylinder gap, the barrel has to be wedged to bring the cylinder gap to being tighter at top of cylinder than at bottom of that chamber. The result is the chamber opening is slightly compressed at the top. So now I will freshen up the chambers with a .376 reamer and lightly chamfer the chamber mouths. My chambers lock up dead center on all 6 si nv the forcing cone is fine. Oh, and degrease and wipe some cold blue in the chambers to cover the fresh cut metal so it go and rust on me.

Only need to go as deep as where the ball rams to.

 

[Bad Karma]

Pietta told me that they don't heat treat their barrels after I emailed them about wedge-slot peening.......with an attitude like "don't use them so much then "

I think my response would be, “that’s fine. I won’t use your pistols at all.”

 

[lyman54]

I got the same attitude from them when I emailed about the bolt. Pedersoli went out of their way to help me about the rear sight on a P53 Enfield

 

[nkbj]

Been really pleased with the customer service response from Pedersoli.
I asked where to buy a replacement part here in the states and instead it appeared in the mail box.

 

[nkbj]

About Piettas...
Pietta quality has really improved a lot but from experience when getting one second hand I figger I'm getting a kit and feel no shame over creating whatever my heart desires.
Well, except for that snub nose Walker idea. But if they produce a Walker hey maybe so.