Price-Quality Question

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DGW is selling both brass and steel frome .36 Colt Navies for about $185.......Cabellas price is considerably higher.I believe these are all Piettas.....any reason to be concerned that there might be a quality difference?

 

[LRB]

Probably not. I don't consider Pietta as a quality gun anyway. Oh yeah, you might get lucky and it shoots ok, but for how long? They do not seem to hold up under heavy use, as with some other imports. Spend a few more dollars, and buy Cimarron. They are seldom perfect, but are way ahead of Pietta. Pietta cannot get even get shaping right on most, and seem to care only about the sales end of the market. Just my opinion.

 

[TFoley]

Probably not. I don't consider Pietta as a quality gun anyway. Oh yeah, you might get lucky and it shoots ok, but for how long? They do not seem to hold up under heavy use, as with some other imports. Spend a few more dollars, and buy Cimarron. They are seldom perfect, but are way ahead of Pietta. Pietta cannot get even get shaping right on most, and seem to care only about the sales end of the market. Just my opinion.

Sir, after a few kicks up the butt in numerous important publications over here in Yoorup a few years back Pietta got their ducks in line and improved their general product quality by a country mile. Most of us here in my club who shoot BP have at least one Pietta revolver, often as well as the usual ROA, and we find them as well-made and reliable as any other make. Having said that, the only other makes we encounter over here are Uberti and Pedersoli. The Pietta Remington Army Model of 1858 predominates - there are dozens of them in our club, in all finishes, although the stainless steel versions dominate.

I'd say that they have moved up several gears in their QC in the last five years, a fact supported by the popular sales confirmed by my friendly local gun-dealer.

I have to say, though, that here in Yoorup we paper punch and therefore do not use the heavy loads that many of you seem to think is mandatory and more manly. Guns that aren't blasted to pieces with heavy loads of Triple 7 DO last longer. [Handgun hunting is prohibited in most of Europe, BTW.]

My $0.02.

tac
Supporter of the Cape meares Lighthouse Restoration fund

 

[LRB]

Glad to hear of the quality improvments. Now if they could just get their shapes closer to originals. Especially the grip frames.

 

[Pete Gaimari]

Pietta guns aren't that bad if you don't want an authentic gun in all details. As others and myself have mentioned many times. They have no clue how to make a grip to match the original guns.

Another item they fail on is the wedge fit on Colts. It's horrible and it looks like they pound the wedge in with a sledge hammer.


Brass framed 44 cal 1851 Colt? Only Pietta could come up with that abortion.

 

[mingo]

I got a deal on a .44 Army with a wedge issue-just needed some filing in the arbour to correct-don't know why it was released that way.
Got a Rem that appears to need the bolt narrowed a bit.
My folks abandoned yoorup a long time ago.

My grandfathers left the farm in 1917, and father and uncles in 1943 to help settle the disagreements of the time.

 

Probably not. I don't consider Pietta as a quality gun anyway. Oh yeah, you might get lucky and it shoots ok, but for how long? They do not seem to hold up under heavy use, as with some other imports. Spend a few more dollars, and buy Cimarron. They are seldom perfect, but are way ahead of Pietta. Pietta cannot get even get shaping right on most, and seem to care only about the sales end of the market. Just my opinion.

Sir, after a few kicks up the butt in numerous important publications over here in Yoorup a few years back Pietta got their ducks in line and improved their general product quality by a country mile. Most of us here in my club who shoot BP have at least one Pietta revolver, often as well as the usual ROA, and we find them as well-made and reliable as any other make. Having said that, the only other makes we encounter over here are Uberti and Pedersoli. The Pietta Remington Army Model of 1858 predominates - there are dozens of them in our club, in all finishes, although the stainless steel versions dominate.

I'd say that they have moved up several gears in their QC in the last five years, a fact supported by the popular sales confirmed by my friendly local gun-dealer.

I have to say, though, that here in Yoorup we paper punch and therefore do not use the heavy loads that many of you seem to think is mandatory and more manly. Guns that aren't blasted to pieces with heavy loads of Triple 7 DO last longer. [Handgun hunting is prohibited in most of Europe, BTW.]

My $0.02.

tac
Supporter of the Cape meares Lighthouse Restoration fund

:hmm: Seem a mite prickly there, Tac, ole boy. Almost as if you had holdings in Pietta?

I hope that all you say be true about their upping their quality contol.

As my experience with Pietta leaves me in the opinion that their product are piettas of fecal matter.

I have one of their Smith carbines that I picked up years ago. One of the infamous ones that they bored backwards. Can't hit the side of a castle with it. Contacting Pietta directly, and getting a response from one of the family members, they were willing to sell me a new barrel through a US retailer for over $300. Might as well send it out to Hoyt to be relined.

While I am guilty of shooting some heavy loads, I do realize that its my fault when a gun breaks down. And I feel calling Triple 7 a blackpowder subsititute is like saying guncotton is a subsititute for blackpowder. Only if one is blowing stumps.

CP

 

[Many Klatch]

Capper, I picked up a brass framed 1851 in .44 a couple of months ago from a blanket trader. It was an Armi San Marco made in 1984. So Pietta isn't the only maker of bastard guns. It's fun to shoot but the handles are way too small for me. Now if I could just figure out how to compensate for it shooting 18 inches high at 25 yards.

Many Klatch

 

[zimmerstutzen]

I have one of just about every manufacturer. And four guns from Palmetto, which is reputedly the most abhorrent ever. Three of the Palmetto guns are actually very very good. One, a kit revolver, works like it has sand in the action. There was some incredible junk put on the market in the 1960's. Belgian twist barrel cap locks and other suicide specials.

I handled a new Pietta Remmy last week. No complaints at all.

 

[TFoley]

Nope, just trying to put the facts over, is all.[/i]

I hope that all you say be true about their upping their quality contol.

THEY say they have, and all the guns I've seen on sale in the recent past seem to bear that out. Certainly, as I noted, all the noobs with Piettas in our club are well-pleased, not being able to afford the Feinwerkbau version, y'see.

As my experience with Pietta leaves me in the opinion that their product are piettas of fecal matter.

As ever, you are as entitled to your opinion as I am to mine. Yours is based on your own personal experience, as is mine.

I have one of their Smith carbines that I picked up years ago.

Respectfully, Sir, years ago is not now. things have changed somewhat.

One of the infamous ones that they bored backwards. Can't hit the side of a castle with it. Contacting Pietta directly, and getting a response from one of the family members, they were willing to sell me a new barrel through a US retailer for over $300. Might as well send it out to Hoyt to be relined.

While I am guilty of shooting some heavy loads, I do realize that its my fault when a gun breaks down. And I feel calling Triple 7 a blackpowder subsititute is like saying guncotton is a subsititute for blackpowder. Only if one is blowing stumps.

And while we are jawing about, and sorting out the universe in general, less of the 'old boy'. I just live here. I'm about as English as Casey Jones.

tac
Supporter of the Cape Meares Lighthouse Restoration Fund