Shooting the Pietta Buntline

[Stantheman86]

I took my new 12" Pietta "Buntline" out for it's first range trip today, with the sling I made from a Hawken sling.

It hangs conveniently if you are looking to just walk around with it, I primarily wanted to use it as a "soft stock " which worked pretty well

I vinegar bathed it and it goes nicely with my other .44 Brassers which I have a 2 holster rig for

At about 40ish yards, it was actually hitting low but I think that's from me "dipping " the barrel when pulling the trigger. From a rest it hit pretty much to the sights when I moved in to about 25. I used the 24gr spout with Old Eynsford 3f.

Not feeling like breaking it down to wipe it out, I used Crisco over the balls and I fired 15 cylinders without a problem . Using Crisco over the ball does the job, it may not be ideal but it keeps the gun running.

This gun is a lot of fun, I feel it almost needs the shoulder stock that Pietta has stopped making , for whatever reason. There's probably no real advantage to a 12" barrel in a stock-less revolver besides sight radius, but I was making easy hits on a reduced silhouette target at 40 yards with no problems.

 

[BigAl52]

Nice collection of six shooters there.

 

[Stantheman86]

Nice collection of six shooters there.

Thank You

I like the brassers and even though I have a bunch of steel frames, etc I keep playing around with these and my .36's the most

 

[cynthialee]

I've always wanted a Buntline with shoulder stock.
Love that soft stock idea.

 

[Stantheman86]

I've always wanted a Buntline with shoulder stock.
Love that soft stock idea.

I actually bought it in the hope that since Pietta is making these again, they'd bring back the stocks....but then, there not being a cut on the grip frame pretty much tells me there's no hope for a stock

The soft stock works, it keeps the gun stable and it looks kinda cool

 

[Stantheman86]

I made a terrible quality YouTube video

All my videos are pretty poor, I just use YouTube basically as a video storage site for blackpowder shooting, so I don't have to burn up storage on my phone

 

[BigAl52]

Has Pietta still got the cylinder gap issue figured out with the new Buntline.

 

[Stantheman86]

Has Pietta still got the cylinder gap issue figured out with the new Buntline.

As far as the barrel/cylinder gap?

 

[BigAl52]

Yes does the cylinder bottom out on the frame. So you dont need to use some sort of a bushing to keep the barrel straight

 

[Stantheman86]

Yes does the cylinder bottom out on the frame. So you dont need to use some sort of a bushing to keep the barrel straight

15 cylinders deep , she was still running, so if anything isn't straight or bottoming out, I couldn't tell

I have purchased 5 brand new 2022 Pietta Colt clones this past month and the only issues I've had are two of them were a little tight in the b/c gap , and I had to run a file across the forcing cone of a Pietta Navy to relieve some cylinder rubbing. It otherwise worked but I didn't like how tight it was

 

[Pukka Sahib]

I took my new 12" Pietta "Buntline" out for it's first range trip today, with the sling I made from a Hawken sling.

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It hangs conveniently if you are looking to just walk around with it, I primarily wanted to use it as a "soft stock " which worked pretty well

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Interesting way to “sling”, the revolver - quite ingenious !
I vinegar bathed it and it goes nicely with my other .44 Brassers which I have a 2 holster rig for

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At about 40ish yards, it was actually hitting low but I think that's from me "dipping " the barrel when pulling the trigger. From a rest it hit pretty much to the sights when I moved in to about 25. I used the 24gr spout with Old Eynsford 3f.

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Not feeling like breaking it down to wipe it out, I used Crisco over the balls and I fired 15 cylinders without a problem . Using Crisco over the ball does the job, it may not be ideal but it keeps the gun running.

This gun is a lot of fun, I feel it almost needs the shoulder stock that Pietta has stopped making , for whatever reason. There's probably no real advantage to a 12" barrel in a stock-less revolver besides sight radius, but I was making easy hits on a reduced silhouette target at 40 yards with no problems.