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01-15-2022, 02:21 PM
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1860 Army revolver...
Just purchased a steel framed, percussion, 1860 model, replica Colt revolver: "Taylor's & Co. Model 1860 Army by Pietta, .44 caliber 1/2 fluted cylinder."
CCH frame, brass trigger guard, 1/2 fluted cyl. I was going to snag a Cimarron 1860 with a steel frame and happened to see the offering from Taylor's & Co... Lust at first sight. It is difficult to resist the sheer elegance and classic lines of the 1860 model...and the CCH frame. The 1/2 fluting of the cylinder is a bonus. THEN...there is the known quality of, Pietta, the manufacturer. Cimarron offers the same, but with a fully fluted cylinder.....IF....you can find one to buy....that is also mfg., by Pietta. Cowboy guns are like eating peanuts...you snag one...and you have a new hole in your wallet where all the $$$$ goes... 
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01-15-2022, 02:32 PM
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Pietta makes beautiful firearms. I have a Sharps rifle imported by Taylor & Co, made by Pietta.
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01-15-2022, 03:28 PM
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I have an 1873, "Short Rifle," mfg., by Pietta and imported by Taylor & Co.20" octagonal BBL, CCH frame, in .357/.38 spl. The walnut is beautiful. A work of art. IIRC, I posted images of it in the rifle section.
Other than pulling on the cotton gloves...taking it out of the rack and fondling it...I don't expect to shoot it. It sits beside Cimarrons' 1892 "Rooster Cogburn Carbine," in .45 LC, AND, the 1866 Winchester mfg., "Yellow Boy Carbine," in .38 speciall and the Model 94 Winchester XTR, in .375 Winchester. All Un-fired. And I am sniffing at the 1873 Texas Brush Popper, in .45LC. now. My Brother was over the other day and looking at my toys he has the hots for a lever gun now. I put a Cimarron catalog in his hand and I can see that his wallet is going to take some "hits." Poor guy...
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01-24-2022, 06:10 PM
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The new popgun has arrived. Its a beauty....
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01-24-2022, 06:41 PM
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01-25-2022, 12:19 AM
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I just snapped a couple with my sail phone.
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01-25-2022, 11:54 PM
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 . Pietta invented an invisible gun and I never heard the damn news?? Cool you can open carry and your the only one knows your armed. I like it. 
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01-26-2022, 12:01 AM
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Here we go....sized properly for easy viewing...
 
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01-26-2022, 12:04 AM
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It is WELL oiled....
 
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01-26-2022, 01:34 AM
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Imagine wearing a pair of those irons that nice like back in the day into a town like Tombstone? You would be marked as a 'shooter' and someone would look for trouble. Either that or they would just bushwhack yah and take em. |
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01-26-2022, 07:11 AM
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Then too....when Tombstone was popping...the civil war had very recently concluded and maybe those kinds of popguns were just cheap war surplus? Still deadly today...the 1860 model Colt was being or had been, in Federal service, replaced by the 1872 and 1873 model SAA, Colts, cartridge pistols (Faster reloading.) The nerdowells, pioneers, tinpanners and pond scum.....carried whatever they could buy CHEAP, or steal.
I read that in that era, the Remington, "New Army" pistol retailed for $8.00. Which ⁸was EXPENSIVE back then. Gotta say...that with a properly loaded 1860...a man... thus armed was a walking death dealer. It he knew how to hit a damned thing with it. The Colts model 1973, SAA.... made other pistols obsolete. The more ridged frame. The rifled barrel and the ability to accept self contained cartridges...KING OF THE HILL. I don't think the two gun leather or even the single pistol rigs so popularized by hollyweird were common back then. You see pics of old timers proudly displaying their popguns....with the guns stuck into their drawers...held by their belts. Cowboys were lo paid and a dime a dozen, then. A Winchester lever rifle and a SAA..... would have gobbled up a years wages, for a cowboy. God created man but Sam Colt made them all equal. . |
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01-26-2022, 07:12 AM
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I just remembered how to slim my image size down...duh.
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01-26-2022, 05:40 PM
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