OT: .44 Gun, 4 Fun X 3 or 4

[Pete44ru]

A 5 1/2" barreled M1860 example - steel frame, fluted cylinder, steel backstrap, brass triggerguard/front strap.

[EDIT: I added pics of more gunz further down this thread.]

[jeepnik]

More fun 3" barreled 1860

[rjohns94]

very nice indeed.

[Andrew]

You guys can't be posting stuff like this. I am having a hard enough time fighting off uges to get a traditional C&B.

[bogus bill]

This is a original refinished remington new model army .44 cal. It also has a king post with red bead and the rear hog wallow was squared. I havent shot it in the last 25 years, but it was accuarate!

[Pete44ru]

25 YEARS ! !....... I kin hear thet pore ole fella, beggin' , from here ! "SHoooooooT ME" !

[Doc Hudson]

More fun 3" barreled 1860

Now I need one of those! Especially if I can get a Mason Conversion cylinder in .44 SPL or .44 Russian! It would make a fine companion piece to my M-1851 Mason Richards conversion in .38 SPL.

[jeepnik]

More fun 3" barreled 1860

Now I need one of those! Especially if I can get a Mason Conversion cylinder in .44 SPL or .44 Russian! It would make a fine companion piece to my M-1851 Mason Richards conversion in .38 SPL.

I got this one from Cabela's. Not sure if they still carry it or not. The conversion sounds like fun.

[bogus bill]

I cant refraine from showing this one again. Its a early S&W american .44 S&W. Somebody cut it back many years ago. It was found in a barn being tore down at a old stagecoach stop in montanna. Wish this one could talk! I never tried shooting it but it is functional. I belive it was made in 1870 or 1871. That is several years before the colt SAA was generaly available!

[2ndovc]

Nice shooters Guys!

Always been a big fan of the 1860s. Don't know why I don't have one. Just my '51 Navy.
My Dad bought it for me when I was 12 for $35.00.


my first Sixgun! Fun Stuff!!!

jb

[jeepnik]

Hey, Navy's are nothing to sneeze at. They handle real well, and I'd sure hate to be hit by one of the soft .36 caliber balls. Didn't Hicock prefer the Navy? If so, that says alot.

[Ysabel Kid]

You guys can't be posting stuff like this. I am having a hard enough time fighting off uges to get a traditional C&B.

Andrew, once you've held a 1860, you're gone - no point even trying to fight off that urge for a traditional C&B. IMHO the 1860 was the pinnacle of the development of the blackpowder cap and ball revolver. The balance is extraordinary. It is simply a work of art!

Hey, Navy's are nothing to sneeze at. They handle real well, and I'd sure hate to be hit by one of the soft .36 caliber balls. Didn't Hicock prefer the Navy? If so, that says alot.

Yes he did. As you note, nothing to sneeze at. To me the 1851 was the logical culmination of the Dragoon series. Smaller, lighter, faster - and very deadly!

[Pete44ru]

Although I still don't want to be hit with anything - I especially wouldn't have wanted to get hit before the advances in medicine and pharmaceuticals we now take for granted.

That's why even the .22 Short sold like hotcakes as a CCW, back then - a hit in the pinkie toe would shortly turn fatally septic.

[JReed]

Just so that Bogus Bill dont feel like the odd man out here is a set of Uberti repros.



I would love to pick up a pair of 51 Navy's some day Jeepnic is right they handle like a dream.

[bogus bill]

Nice! Jeramy, there were a lot of people years ago who preferred the remingtons over the 1860 colts!

[bogus bill]

I dont own these anymore. Wish I did! They were those U.S. calvery comemertives that colt made in the 70s.

[JReed]

Now that is a cool set of colts.

[Ysabel Kid]

Now that is a cool set of colts.

+1 Why'd you let that pair go?!?

[Pete44ru]

From my dishwashing machine to you , a 7 1/2" Ruger Old Army with an R&D .45 Colt conversion cylinder in a self-made case , flanked by a 9" Colt Patterson pattern .36 C&B, and a longer, 8" barreled Colt .44 1806 Army pattern.

Oh - and, an obsidian-bladed knife.



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[JReed]

Pete did you make that knife your self? Thats a cool set up nice job on the box.

[rjohns94]

Very nice work on that box, and very nice C&B pistols you guys have posted. Wow! Here are my pair of Colt 1851s in .44 - nice shooters in their right.

[Pete44ru]

Thanks again - and, No, Jeremy, I didn't make the knife. It was self-boughten.

I actually started the case, intending it to house both of my .44 M1860 Colt Army's - but gave the long-barreled 1860 to a close friend for his 65th B-day, and then had to change my pattern for the interior partitions around, to go with the ROA & accessories.

[bogus bill]

yasabel kid, I know this is a late answer, but the answer I think was child support and divorice lawyer! Quite a few toys went back then.

[Doc Hudson]

Hey, Navy's are nothing to sneeze at. They handle real well, and I'd sure hate to be hit by one of the soft .36 caliber balls. Didn't Hicock prefer the Navy? If so, that says alot.

Yep, Wild bill Hickok and Doc Holiday both continued to use Navy Colts long after metallic cartridge handguns were available. Doc Holiday did eventually switch to a Mason-Richards conversion in .38 Colt.

I actually like the Navy Colt better than the M-1860 Army. The grips feel better to me. As I'm sure you know, Colt used the M-1851 gripframe for the Model P. I guess that is part of the reason I like both those guns, they fit my hand. The M-1860 Army feels too much like a Bisley grip for me to enjoy.

[Doc Hudson]

Andrew, once you've held a 1860, you're gone - no point even trying to fight off that urge for a traditional C&B. IMHO the 1860 was the pinnacle of the development of the blackpowder cap and ball revolver. The balance is extraordinary. It is simply a work of art!

Now we could have us a right pleasant argument over that statement! LOL

I very much prefer the feel of the Navy Model's grip, since it is the same one used on the Model P. And since you like the M-1960 grip, I'll bet you like the Bisley grip as well. I don't like the feel of the Bisley.