pistol info

[Philip cav]

Re: pistol info

Yes Merry Christmas to all. I have always wished that someone would remake a good authentic pistol like a Kerr or a Lefaucheux pistol. Also my uncle has an original Smith and Wesson pistol.

Pvt. Philip Brening

[Curt Schmidt]

Re: pistol info

Hallo!

I knew I would be asked...

Lou Imperato who had made the Italian and Iver Johnson "Colt 2nd Generation" revolvers picked up the line Colt had ended in 1982 when in 1993 he founded/formed the Colt Blackpowder Arms Co. The CBA Company then made the "Colt 3rd Generation" blackpowder line aka the Colt "Signature Series" until 2002.

Curt

[Todd Watts]

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You can pick up Lefaucheux revolvers for a hundred to 200 fairly easily. I have refurbished them to be had as display pieces for people. Sadly, nobody offers blanks even though making a blank case that could be re-loaded would be fairly simple. Had I time to fiddle with it I could do some. All it is is a brass/copper case/cup with a square recess in the back into which a #10 cap is placed facing up toward the pinhole. The pin is inserted to the cap and a drop of wax holds it secure. Powder is poured in and the case is plugged by a wad of some sort. You could reload these by just putting in a new cap, wax-gluing the pin back in, recharging and reusing over and over.

[Benedict]

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Thanks for the information on the Colt cap-n-ball "2nd generation." Of course I had known about the four SAA generations, but it seems to me that the big difference is that the cap-n-balls had been more or less "outsourced."

I agree that some revolver models might be underrepresented, but then many of the models of the Civil War era were used in quantities that pale in comparison to Colt's or Remingtons. I guess it then boils down, as so often, to the respective unit one is portraying.

[Curt Schmidt]

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Hallo!

Hey, wait a minute...

Isn't it 0300 something (3 A.M.) in Germany right now? Frohe Weinachten, Kamerad!

:) :)

Curt