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Wife Becky & I have had this 1944 Izhevsk M44 for about 8 years & even though I've got all the cosmoline out & had her shooting really good, I never gave it much thought till recently to really clean her up & get her back to her once proud glory. All I can tell you is that in one time of her...

Well the latest in what I've done to my Pietta copy of a .44 caliber Remington NMA w/ 5.5" barrel. Well as many here may remember I: Reamed the chambers from .4460 - .4510 Opened up the nipple area for a Snail capper. Opened up the loading window to accomodate the larger conicals for it...

I have heat treated quite a few small parts through out the years but have never tried to heat treat the cylinder pin on a Remington copy because to be honest it never really dawned on me to try & see if that would fix the gas cutting effect that the Remingtons seem to go through. I have...

Hello my friends, I've got my friends revolver here that she had just bought home & it is in need of some cleaning but I'm kinda rusty on the Date coding. It is a Navy Arms New Model Navy .36 Caliber by Uberti. Date code on the right side of the frame is XX1 or XXl I am in the process of...

Hello my friends. I've been having an itch for a muzzleloading shotgun but for the life of me I can not find one of a realtively inexpensive price. What I'm looking for is either a 20ga. or 12ga. single barrel "doubble barrel is nice but I'm trying to keep cost down due to the times right now"...

The Cylinder Pin. I had been wanting to do this mod since I got this little jewel but finally gotten my self around to getting a few new pins for it & bringing my self to do it. The job was simple really. Taken my new pin, marked in 2 locations where I wanted it to hinge at & used my dremel...

Well it has actually been over a year since I had this little revolver in my hands from Cabelas & the engineering side of me turned this little jewel into a Conical Launching machine that is is today. As some may remember I started my work by smoothing & tuning the action. Reamed all 18...

This question is for all my brothers who shoot PRB Patched Round Ball. My Lyman Trade Rifle that I had gotten earlier this month is a wonderful shooter with .495/.015 PRB out to even 100 yards & as of today I've got about 50 - 55 shots through it but it is still cutting my patches at loading "I...

Today I thought to take my lil girls to the range for some fun before I had to take my oldest back home. Now my oldest isn't much for the outdoors stuff except maybe some fishing, her mom has a problem with her doing things that relate to the outdoors except maybe soccer & has always made it...

Today was a planed day for me, got up with the lil ones, had my coffee & breakfast, when Moma got up I cleaned up some leaves & trash, then went to the range around noon. Ofcorse having no spot really to do any bench shooting was not in the plan but I was going to have fun anyway. I shot a...

Hello all, well this afternoon I had some free time so I went to the range to get a few shots in with my new rifle the Lyman Trade Rifle .50 cal. & let me tell you this rifle shoots wonderfully right out of the box. Ofcorse I had cleaned it when I got it home & today I ran a dry patch through...

Hello all, today was Christmas for me because I recieved my Lyman Trade Rifle from Mid South & boy is it a bute, I can't wait to send some .495 ball down range this weekend through it. Thought I'd share a picture of my small collection where it has pretty much made it's self at home. Sorry...

In the thread Thinking of buying a 1858 bp. I see where it could turn a different direction & sort of hijacking "SORRY" so I thought to use my 30 years experience in these fine pieces to explain a little if some like myself wish to keep a C&B revolver loaded for an extended time without...

Well my friends this weekend has been very good to me. Saturday I went to the Archery club to sling some arrows at some 3D targets & then help take em down, then I proceeded to go to the pistol range to really get to know my Sheriff’s Remy. Today was back to the pistol range with a squeaky clean...

I recieved my Mold for my 220gr. .456 Lee Conical bullets for my Pietta '58 with it's 5-1/2" barrel "ordered it since I had reamed the chambers to .451 no too long ago" & last night I made 125 bullets from it. Each bullet that passed my inspection weighed 220.0 - 220.6 grains & measuring them...

Talking to Moma today she said that we have to cut back on some things & one of them is possibly my shooting :eek: Cost of shooting Black powder. Pietta 58’ NMA either 8’ barrel or 5.5” barrel, These would be mid to hot loads. Shooting 35gr charge of FFFG Goex & .457 143gr. Ball 192 rounds...

Hello all. When I bought my Pietta 58' NMA w/ a 5.5" barrel from Cabelas in November I was impressed with it's fit & finish & how handy it seemed since it has a shorter barrel than my 23 year old Remington copy but when I took it out I found that it's grouping capability was not what I was...

It's here, it’s here & well worth the wait I might add! When I ordered my rig from Big Bad Guns for my Pietta 1858 NMA w/ 5.5" barrel & spare cylinder pouch in April things went south for a bit, BBG had hurt his foot which made it difficult for him to do the work & then the meds didn't make...

As some of you have read in my past thread I have re-acquired an old friend, my CVA Bobcat .50cal rifle. A good shooter & just the right amount of barrel for brush hunting, not too short for a slight loss of power but not too long to make it hard to swing at a nice buck come season opener but...

Hello my friends, My close friend & President of the Hunt club is also a teacher here in Louisa co. Schools & during the football games he's in charge of the cannon. I've never seen this cannon but I imagine it's be a decent cannon being that he loads it with 3 ounces of cannon powder & a...