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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: Hunting Hitler
« on: January 05, 2017, 02:15:48 PM »
He may be hiding in a secret bunker on Oak Island.
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General Discussion / Re: What is your favorite Colt to shoot?
« on: October 02, 2016, 03:21:14 PM »
My favorite is the Colt Throckmorton.
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Welcome Wagon / Re: Just popped in to say hi .
« on: September 17, 2016, 10:42:05 AM »
Welcome mr. wack, the picture's a riot, looks like Bean just had a chainfire.
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General Discussion / Re: Percussion revolvers in shows and movies
« on: September 07, 2016, 06:16:00 AM »
Interesting gunfight in Redemption: For Robbing The Dead, a Colt navy goes off like a cheap highway flare.
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Welcome Wagon / Re: new here from RI
« on: September 07, 2016, 06:01:44 AM »
Welcome from Massachusetts Don3, hope you enjoy the group.
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Police Models / Re: Arbor Length
« on: June 18, 2016, 03:48:04 PM »
Many a strapping lad has quailed at the squeak of a mouse gun; the picayune mechanical terror frequently leaving more men dead and dying upon the floor than managed to escape by way of the doors and windows. I had rather face a blunderbuss full of nails and broken glass.
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Police Models / Re: Arbor Length
« on: June 18, 2016, 09:56:07 AM »
Richard...
With some whittling the navy runt will make a good saloon pistol, I have faith in it. Like you I enjoy tinkering with the things, it's half the fun of owning them. This habit of cap eating has me wondering though, seems like it must be something universal, like that all these little .36 pistols lack mass in the hammer and just can't help themselves? I fed the runt a miserable 14 grains, and I swear the hammer jumped. If the front sight was taller I'd run a rubber band back to the hammer spur and see whether that helped.
With some whittling the navy runt will make a good saloon pistol, I have faith in it. Like you I enjoy tinkering with the things, it's half the fun of owning them. This habit of cap eating has me wondering though, seems like it must be something universal, like that all these little .36 pistols lack mass in the hammer and just can't help themselves? I fed the runt a miserable 14 grains, and I swear the hammer jumped. If the front sight was taller I'd run a rubber band back to the hammer spur and see whether that helped.
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Police Models / Re: Arbor Length
« on: June 18, 2016, 08:39:39 AM »
Goon, the pocket navy is a tiny little sucker, no doubt about, but I do kinda like it despite its predictable flaws. I'd like to hack an inch or so off the barrel, which I'll probably do when I come up with some notion of how to shorten the loading lever, it's that or cut a hole in my pocket so the little bastid can live up to its name.
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Police Models / Re: Arbor Length
« on: June 18, 2016, 05:17:25 AM »
I just got an Uberti pocket navy, short arbor, eats caps, and needs a pipe wrench to turn the cylinder. Nice finish on the grips, but they appear to have been fitted on a very dry day and now have sharp edges sticking out past the frame at various locations, so the pretty finish is pointless since the grips will need refitting, same problem with the grips on my Uberti 1861. I'm pretty much pistoled out, but if I buy any more it'll be a couple of the newer Pieta 51's without the tail.
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General Discussion / Re: The greatest Colt ever made
« on: June 15, 2016, 04:25:52 PM »
For function and pure beauty the 1851 wins at a walk, it is iconic and represented the state of the art until the arrival of the peacemaker. Don't take my word for it, Samuel Colt in COLT, THE MAN AND HIS MACHINE by I. P. Freeley is quoted: "Wicket's right, damn boy's always right, the 1851 was the pinnacle of my art."
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Percussion Caps and Primers / Re: A Mystery
« on: June 12, 2016, 11:49:37 AM »
Richard, I got a special dispensation to use Remington caps, on account of the scarcity of Colt caps in my area. I gotta re-apply though since I cancelled the Remington I had on order and switched to a pocket navy, the Powder Pope ain't gonna like this.
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Percussion Caps and Primers / Re: A Mystery
« on: June 07, 2016, 04:33:49 PM »
Richard, you mentioned that it was only the hot Remington caps that went dead, so I'm basing my damp powder theory on there being something different in the Remington caps as opposed to CCI. Your guess is right about something that reacts with the Black Mz, but that thing is water and the Remington caps absorb it.
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Percussion Caps and Primers / Re: A Mystery
« on: June 07, 2016, 10:23:56 AM »
Richard, if you had a can of damp powder in a sealed container, it would stay damp though, wouldn't it, being sealed away from the action of the silica gel? Loading with it, and then storing the loaded cylinders in a dry gun safe would draw the moisture from the powder by way of the path of least resistance right to the priming composition in the caps.
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Percussion Caps and Primers / Re: A Mystery
« on: June 07, 2016, 05:14:38 AM »
Very perplexing Richard. How do you keep the interior of your gun safe dry, and about how often was it opened while all these cylinders were stored in it?
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Colt Capsuckers / Re: Cap Sucking Colts
« on: June 06, 2016, 11:58:43 AM »
I doubt localized intense heat on a hammer would be good for it. My main problem was with spatter and slag though, and the discovery that the metal from the weld was a different color than the metal of the barrel, which even nitre bluing couldn't correct.