expat_alaska
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I purchased a Traditions Pietta 1851 Navy .36 a few weeks ago from a purveyor (who I will not name) because it came NIB in a Traditions box. The price was what I considered fair at $220 for what I thought was going to be a "best-of-the-lot" Pietta gun. I guess the purveyor could have substituted a standard Pietta gun in a Traditions box, but I don't know that.
When I received it, it had great case colors on the steel frame, and the timing was good. The wood was plain standard Pietta quarter-sawn walnut with little finish and the standard Pietta lousy wood-to-frame finish. That is Pietta. The right side of the barrel has 3 vertical scratches about 2" from the muzzle that happened before the bluing. The brass backstrap is nothing to write home about with a few blems, and the wood has a nick on the right side, and has a scratch on the same side.
Honestly, the standard run-of-the-mill Pietta I bought from Cabela's in 2016 for $170 on sale is a better gun.
If I would buy another Traditions gun I would have to see all pics first before I would put forth more money for something that Traditions touts as a better gun.
The Traditions gun is on the bottom, the Cabela's Pietta is on top.
I am not going to take the Traditions gun apart just for comparison sake. I have only rotated the cylinder once and have not even put caps on the nipples to clear them of oil.
I hope you folks that have bought Traditions guns have had better luck.
Regards,
Jim
When I received it, it had great case colors on the steel frame, and the timing was good. The wood was plain standard Pietta quarter-sawn walnut with little finish and the standard Pietta lousy wood-to-frame finish. That is Pietta. The right side of the barrel has 3 vertical scratches about 2" from the muzzle that happened before the bluing. The brass backstrap is nothing to write home about with a few blems, and the wood has a nick on the right side, and has a scratch on the same side.
Honestly, the standard run-of-the-mill Pietta I bought from Cabela's in 2016 for $170 on sale is a better gun.
If I would buy another Traditions gun I would have to see all pics first before I would put forth more money for something that Traditions touts as a better gun.
The Traditions gun is on the bottom, the Cabela's Pietta is on top.
I am not going to take the Traditions gun apart just for comparison sake. I have only rotated the cylinder once and have not even put caps on the nipples to clear them of oil.
I hope you folks that have bought Traditions guns have had better luck.
Regards,
Jim