mh2000
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So I just got my second 1851 Colt Navy from Cabelas. The first one had totally locked up wedge, so I had to return it.
On the new one, the "timeing" (if that's what you call it for the hand) of the hand is very off and makes it hard to load. At half cock, when you rotate the cylinder to load ball with ramrod, the hand is resting on the ramp of the cylinder sprocket (what is that called?), so the cylinder wants to rotate out from under the ramrod.
I've done an extensive search and have come up with nothing. Would a new hammer fix this or do I need to adjust the one I have? Looking at photos of the hammer, it makes it look like if I ground the half cock cutout deeper, that I would be able to tune the location of the hammer and get the loading to better line up. People online talk about filling powder etc. and then rotating cylinder until it stops (against hand). Mine is very far off from this, but if the hammer was not held so far back at half cock it would be ok.
My 1858 Remmington was completely troublefree... but getting this Colt up, running and fun to shoot not so much!
All help appreciated!
Thanks! (New member!)
Mark
On the new one, the "timeing" (if that's what you call it for the hand) of the hand is very off and makes it hard to load. At half cock, when you rotate the cylinder to load ball with ramrod, the hand is resting on the ramp of the cylinder sprocket (what is that called?), so the cylinder wants to rotate out from under the ramrod.
I've done an extensive search and have come up with nothing. Would a new hammer fix this or do I need to adjust the one I have? Looking at photos of the hammer, it makes it look like if I ground the half cock cutout deeper, that I would be able to tune the location of the hammer and get the loading to better line up. People online talk about filling powder etc. and then rotating cylinder until it stops (against hand). Mine is very far off from this, but if the hammer was not held so far back at half cock it would be ok.
My 1858 Remmington was completely troublefree... but getting this Colt up, running and fun to shoot not so much!
All help appreciated!
Thanks! (New member!)
Mark