A Sixgun Project Completed
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A Sixgun Project Completed
The photos below are of a piece I picked up a little over a year ago for about half of what it was worth. It was originally a General Patton Commemorative, based on an older Uberti SAA. When I got it, it was dirty, most of the silver plating was black, and one of the very cheesy grips was chipped...and the hand spring was broken. It originally had a lanyard ring, but I removed that and made a polished, nitre-blued plug to replace it. I replaced all of the screws with a new set of hardened screws from VTI gun parts, then I polished and nitre blued them. After repairing the hand spring and doing an action job, it sat for almost a year until a few weeks ago when I sent the grip frame off to Bar-S grips for a set of their "slightly aged" Tru-Ivory grips. I got them back a few days ago, and the grips feel great. They are contoured like a set of Colt First Generation grips. The pictures don't show it well, but this material looks just like real ivory, complete with grain structure and contrast, unlike most faux ivory which is just white plastic.
Overall, I am happy with it with two exceptions. Like most older Ubertis (and Colts, for that matter), the chamber throats are oversized. The should measure around .453". These average .456"...so I will never get great accuracy out of it. Secondly, since it is silver plated, shooting black powder loads are out. Right after I got it, I tried it...once. Needless to say, the sulfur from the BP turned the silver plating BLACK. THAT was a lot of fun to clean up.... Anyway, I got a good-looking engraved SAA for about an EIGHTH of what a similar Colt would have set me back. I can't gripe about that!
Overall, I am happy with it with two exceptions. Like most older Ubertis (and Colts, for that matter), the chamber throats are oversized. The should measure around .453". These average .456"...so I will never get great accuracy out of it. Secondly, since it is silver plated, shooting black powder loads are out. Right after I got it, I tried it...once. Needless to say, the sulfur from the BP turned the silver plating BLACK. THAT was a lot of fun to clean up.... Anyway, I got a good-looking engraved SAA for about an EIGHTH of what a similar Colt would have set me back. I can't gripe about that!
Wayne Miller
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Re: A Sixgun Project Completed
BBQ!
How does one nitre blue screws?
How does one nitre blue screws?
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Re: A Sixgun Project Completed
Very nice sixgun!
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Amazing handiwork. Would be cool to see the "before" pictures...!
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Re: A Sixgun Project Completed
Look here...awp101 wrote:BBQ!
How does one nitre blue screws?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vF3zKiUIkY
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Re: A Sixgun Project Completed
Heck, forget the BBQ - that looks like a gun you could wear to church!!!
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Re: A Sixgun Project Completed
BTW, it is being supported by a vintage brass Winchester 10ga shotshell. I reload them for my Damascus 1889 Remington hammer double.
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Re: A Sixgun Project Completed
Looks great.
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Re: A Sixgun Project Completed
Nice work!!!
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Re: A Sixgun Project Completed
wonderful sixgun and you have me lusting for the 10ga brassie too!!
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Re: A Sixgun Project Completed
Very very COOL...
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Re: A Sixgun Project Completed
Very nice!
I too appreciate the shotgun shell, Use them in my twelve ga, for SASS with ffg Goex. I did have a ten ga. Remington hammer gun but the brass for it cost $4 each. I'm sure that the silver would be hard to maintain but the right polish and cloths are available at any music store that sells horns.
M. M.
I too appreciate the shotgun shell, Use them in my twelve ga, for SASS with ffg Goex. I did have a ten ga. Remington hammer gun but the brass for it cost $4 each. I'm sure that the silver would be hard to maintain but the right polish and cloths are available at any music store that sells horns.
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Re: A Sixgun Project Completed
That is NICE
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Re: A Sixgun Project Completed
The nitre bluing of the screws really sets off a nice contrast.
As for the oversized throats, you would be amazed at what the Lyman 454424 sized .454 will do for your fat chambered gun. The large diameter front band really helps to true things up.---------------Sixgun
As for the oversized throats, you would be amazed at what the Lyman 454424 sized .454 will do for your fat chambered gun. The large diameter front band really helps to true things up.---------------Sixgun
Re: A Sixgun Project Completed
Ysabel Kid wrote:Heck, forget the BBQ - that looks like a gun you could wear to church!!!
Amen!
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Re: A Sixgun Project Completed
Nice job!
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Re: A Sixgun Project Completed
Thanks!
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
-Mark Twain
Proverbs 3:5; Philippians 4:13
Got to have a Jones for this
Jones for that
This running with the Joneses boy
Just ain't where it's at
-Mark Twain
Proverbs 3:5; Philippians 4:13
Got to have a Jones for this
Jones for that
This running with the Joneses boy
Just ain't where it's at
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Re: A Sixgun Project Completed
I have that mould, and that is the plan.Sixgun wrote:
As for the oversized throats, you would be amazed at what the Lyman 454424 sized .454 will do for your fat chambered gun. The large diameter front band really helps to true things up.---------------Sixgun
Wayne Miller
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"We thought about it for a long time... 'Endeavor to persevere.' And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union."
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"We thought about it for a long time... 'Endeavor to persevere.' And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union."
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Re: A Sixgun Project Completed
That's what I was thinking.RIHMFIRE wrote:Ysabel Kid wrote:Heck, forget the BBQ - that looks like a gun you could wear to church!!!
Amen!
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Re: A Sixgun Project Completed
My Father has informed me that I will bring this along on Christmas for "show and tell". Last time I did that with a rifle, I left without it.....
Wayne Miller
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"We thought about it for a long time... 'Endeavor to persevere.' And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union."
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Re: A Sixgun Project Completed
I lost a BHP MkIII SFS that way...Wayne Miller wrote:My Father has informed me that I will bring this along on Christmas for "show and tell". Last time I did that with a rifle, I left without it.....
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
-Mark Twain
Proverbs 3:5; Philippians 4:13
Got to have a Jones for this
Jones for that
This running with the Joneses boy
Just ain't where it's at
-Mark Twain
Proverbs 3:5; Philippians 4:13
Got to have a Jones for this
Jones for that
This running with the Joneses boy
Just ain't where it's at