Busyhands94
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Howdy folks! Sorry I haven't been busy too much on the forum, lots of projects and work. But I do have a double build in mind, this time I'll be doing it so y'all can see it coming along!
On another forum there was an auction for a Pietta steel Remington frame with the internals, no barrel, grips, cylinder, base pin, or loading lever. I won the frame and bought a cylinder, some grips and a base pin from the seller. So I've basically got the materials to build a steel framed Remington in the near future, so I thought I'd post pictures as the build progresses!
My project will be to take the barrel off my Pietta brass framed 1858, put that on the steel Remmy frame and swap grips. For the brass frame and internals I have something rather unique in mind for a hunting handgun. So I'll have a steel framed Pietta Remington that will be polished and in the white and a .22 caliber percussion Remmy with target sights and a conversion cylinder.
I'll be putting a rear target sight on the brass framed pistol, then a nice round .22 caliber barrel turned on a lath and with a forcing cone cut as well as threads so it will screw onto the frame. For the front sight I'll be putting a blade sight on just like an 1873 Colt Peacemaker. After that's done I'll get another cylinder, sleeve it to .22 caliber. Then I'll take another cylinder, bore it out, make some inserts and silver solder those in place. Then of course make a breech, firing pin, and gate.
The result will be a brass framed .22 caliber percussion revolver based of the Remington NMA with a conversion cylinder. I suspect the chamber will hold at least ten grains of powder, with Triple Seven that would be pretty effective. But it will also have the conversion cylinder, so I could convert it to .22LR and have a nice little .22 LR sixgun. The beauty of this is I can take out the conversion cylinder and install the cap and ball cylinder, there we go. Non-firearm. Put it in and you've got a handy little .22 revolver.
This will be very useful for small game hunting, due to the fact it won't make too much of a mess of the game. When I shot a rabbit with my Remmy I got a head shot, and it felt like a .44 was a bit overkill. I won't get too graphic but I can say it really made a mess and didn't feel too sporting. I also couldn't see through the cloud of smoke, if I had to take a second shot it would be a stab in the dark. But with .22 that's not going to be too much of an issue, plus it will allow for indoor practice with Aguila Super Colibri's!
So I already CAREFULLY took the barrel off my 58, de-blued it, crowned the muzzle, took the "blackpowder only" and "made in Italy" off the sides as well as engraved the top of the barrel with "Don't Tread On Me"
Here's the barrel and loading lever. Note that there's no crap stamped into the side. They are looking mighty fine!
I hope I don't get crap for this!
Either way I've decided what I'll be doing and I'm sticking to my guns (no pun intended.)
~Levi
On another forum there was an auction for a Pietta steel Remington frame with the internals, no barrel, grips, cylinder, base pin, or loading lever. I won the frame and bought a cylinder, some grips and a base pin from the seller. So I've basically got the materials to build a steel framed Remington in the near future, so I thought I'd post pictures as the build progresses!
My project will be to take the barrel off my Pietta brass framed 1858, put that on the steel Remmy frame and swap grips. For the brass frame and internals I have something rather unique in mind for a hunting handgun. So I'll have a steel framed Pietta Remington that will be polished and in the white and a .22 caliber percussion Remmy with target sights and a conversion cylinder.
I'll be putting a rear target sight on the brass framed pistol, then a nice round .22 caliber barrel turned on a lath and with a forcing cone cut as well as threads so it will screw onto the frame. For the front sight I'll be putting a blade sight on just like an 1873 Colt Peacemaker. After that's done I'll get another cylinder, sleeve it to .22 caliber. Then I'll take another cylinder, bore it out, make some inserts and silver solder those in place. Then of course make a breech, firing pin, and gate.
The result will be a brass framed .22 caliber percussion revolver based of the Remington NMA with a conversion cylinder. I suspect the chamber will hold at least ten grains of powder, with Triple Seven that would be pretty effective. But it will also have the conversion cylinder, so I could convert it to .22LR and have a nice little .22 LR sixgun. The beauty of this is I can take out the conversion cylinder and install the cap and ball cylinder, there we go. Non-firearm. Put it in and you've got a handy little .22 revolver.
This will be very useful for small game hunting, due to the fact it won't make too much of a mess of the game. When I shot a rabbit with my Remmy I got a head shot, and it felt like a .44 was a bit overkill. I won't get too graphic but I can say it really made a mess and didn't feel too sporting. I also couldn't see through the cloud of smoke, if I had to take a second shot it would be a stab in the dark. But with .22 that's not going to be too much of an issue, plus it will allow for indoor practice with Aguila Super Colibri's!
So I already CAREFULLY took the barrel off my 58, de-blued it, crowned the muzzle, took the "blackpowder only" and "made in Italy" off the sides as well as engraved the top of the barrel with "Don't Tread On Me"
Here's the barrel and loading lever. Note that there's no crap stamped into the side. They are looking mighty fine!
I hope I don't get crap for this!
Either way I've decided what I'll be doing and I'm sticking to my guns (no pun intended.)~Levi
