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Stalite block in this neck of the woods. A good bit lighter than a full concrete CMU. Masons love em.

I thought the same was 439 last week, and now marked down. Free shipping helps a bit
If iget one I want the small frame, and open top. The old woolsworth (marked Williamson italy) gun does ok, brassframe and all. If I get serious I use a new fangled cartridge six gun. Probably should hold out for a Colt, or at least Taylor reworked gun.

Fewer cinders left from coal burning nowadays. Fly ash for concrete will be next.

The first few years I lived in Texas as a grad student I was classified as a New York resident and therefore could not legally buy a firearm from a dealer.

Consequently my first handgun was a well-used Uberti .44 Remington that the previous owner had shortened that long post front sight to point of aim. I shot it all the time. The mistake I made it would get so fouled during extended firing sessions that the cylinder would get hard to rotate with the hammer. Eventually the pawl chewed up the teeth on the back of the cylinder, new cylinder through the mail and it was good to go.

Eventually I passed it on to the teenage son of a friend who worked on a dude ranch in New Mexico where they would greet the guests on horseback firing guns into the air..

It became his favorite handgun and he would take off by himself for days in the Lincoln National Forest bringing it along as his sidearm. No problems with that particular Uberti.

While the Remington reproductions tend to be more reliable than any of the Colt reproductions, the price is that you will need to remove the cylinder of the Remington about every third or fourth cylinderful, clean the cylinder pin and its channel, relube, and reassemble, in order to avoid the problem you speak of. The Colts can go much longer between cleanings like that because of the design of the arbor. Same observation was made during the Civil War.

I got one of them with a 5 1/2 barrel cool fun peace.. mine is a Uberti

The 1862 Pocket Police?

yes

if you want pictures I can do it to a text number way easier than I can do it to hear from my current location..

Cimarron Arms five-shot .380 conversion, distant precursor of the j-frame, dunno if it’s Pietta or Uberti. If’n I had $647.39 plus tax burning a hole in my pocket I could be interested. A home defense arm with class.



https://www.cimarron-firearms.com/cimarron-62-pocket-navy-conversion-380-acp-6.html

IIRC all the various Colt .36 Navy revolvers approximated the muzzle energy of a .380. Wild Bill approved 👍🏻

I bought an Uberti Hombre SAA in .45 Colt about 3 years ago and I like it very much. So far have put about 200 rounds through it. Seems very well built and shoots accurately.

They go to much greater lengths to make sure their cartridge guns work than they do to make sure their cap and ball revolvers work. I've owned a few of their cartridge guns and still do. Never had a problem with any of them.

Those are very cool. I've been tempted, myself, but word on the street is that none of the open top conversions will hold up to an extensive diet of modern smokeless powder loads. The top being open is a significant weak point when it comes to smokeless powder cartridges. The connection between the barrel, arbor, and frame is just too flimsy to hold up to much of it.

That's probably why they went with .380 on that particular model.

Seen the .38 spl's shoot decent with light cowboy action loads, but I'd hate to give it a diet of hot loads. Just not made for that.

Another good source for muzzleloading equipment and guns is Dixie Gun Works.

https://www.dixiegunworks.com/

Uberti 1860

When it comes to cowboy guns I prefer Uberti over say the Ruger. I just like the originality of the Uberti's, and I have found they are made rather well, and can take a LOT of abuse. I have a 7.5" .38WCF that shoots like my Python. My son's Uberti has had nothing but abuse and it keeps going.

Love my Uberti Cattleman .45. Came from the maker with two cylinders: a .45 ACP and a .45 Colt. Flawless function, and shoots dead on, point of aim, point of impact, with both rounds, at typical gunfight distances.

Yepper, the DGW annual catalog was the black powder equivalent of the Sears catalog for many years, just full of cool stuff and load info. I detoured through Union City one time just to visit their showroom. They had a ‘51 Navy on the shelf actually badged Dixie Gun Works like they weren’t any more but they wouldn’t sell it to me.

I forget the name behind the operation, not Val Forget, he was the Navy Arms guy. I hope they are hanging in there OK, I noticed on their website they are no longer open for business on weekends.

Turner Kirkland was the Dixie Gun Works founder

I was there years ago and it was a candy store.
I've noticed since his death that a good bit of
the old standard merchandise has gone away.

I miss Mountain State Muzzleloading too

Not sure if the Log Cabin Shop is still there.
I saw Track of the Wolf a while back still
online. I guess they're still open

Oh yes. I've been ordering from Track of the Wolf for year. Just this year I've ordered some things, like lead round balls, for example.