Good ol' fashioned sixguns

by D. Sikes, Sunday, August 18, 2019, 21:11 (1924 days ago) @ Paul

most all cap-n-ball revolvers today come from one of two manufacturers.... either Pietta or Uberti ... Cimmaron gets most of theirs from Uberti.. and then "finishes" them at their facility in Texas... Taylor get's theirs from either Pietta or Uberti depending on the model... Uberti's are usually better finished interior wise but Pietta makes more "versions" of each model... for instance.. if you want a Colt 1851 in .44 rather than .36 of the originals.. then most likely it'll be a Pietta... I like the looks of a shorter barrel 1851 than a 1860... also I like the original style and length of the 1851 grip rather than the 1860 "longer" grip... so with that in mind I bought a Pietta 1851 "Marshall" ... which is a "fantasy" gun in that it is an engraved, in the raw (not blued), short barrel (5 inches rather than 7.5 of the original). I like the balance of it and it's in .44 ... however.. the Pietta grips are not shaped exactly like the original Colts... they are a little more "belled" at the bottom... Uberti grips are more like and size of the original Colts.