expat_alaska
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I know this subject has been discussed before on various forums, and there have been several posts about this, but there have really been no definitive conclusions.
I would like to use a Pietta Dance & Brothers .44 cal. (non-rebated cylinder) as a base to create a Dance .36 cal. pistol.
The Pietta Dance .44 does not have a step/cut in the water table, and some other gentleman on one of these forums has mated a Pietta G&G .36 barrel and plain cylinder to a Pietta Dance .44 frame. He has stated that the hand is either too long/short to turn the cylinder adequately to the stop position.
Mike Belliveau (duelist1954) has a very good recent YouTube vid about shooting the Pietta Dance .44, and I have asked him if he would, as a trial, to swap barrel/cylinder from one of his Pietta Navy .36 pistols onto the Pietta Dance .44 frame and check the hand operation on the cylinder in this configuration. He has stated that he thought the hammer, trigger, and bolt screws were in a different configuration than the Pietta 1851 Navy. (I have a hard time thinking that Pietta reconfigured their standard 1851 Navy frame even slightly just to produce an obscure revolver that many folks may not be interested in, nor even heard of, and therefore not a big seller.)
No word so far.
If anyone has any other information about this, I would appreciate this immensely. I would like to add this Pietta .36 Dance to my sparse collection of 1851 Navy-type pistols insofar as interchangeable barrels/cylinders.
If the Pietta Dance pistol is viable to convert easily to .36 using Pietta 1851 Navy barrels/cylinders, I will have a plethora of many pistols just by barrel/cylinder exchange.
I might even have a replica fantasy of an 1851 Navy Squareback .44 Dragoon.
I don't want to purchase the Pietta Dance .44 until I feel sure that this scenario has a chance to work.
Thanks in advance for any information.
Jim
I would like to use a Pietta Dance & Brothers .44 cal. (non-rebated cylinder) as a base to create a Dance .36 cal. pistol.
The Pietta Dance .44 does not have a step/cut in the water table, and some other gentleman on one of these forums has mated a Pietta G&G .36 barrel and plain cylinder to a Pietta Dance .44 frame. He has stated that the hand is either too long/short to turn the cylinder adequately to the stop position.
Mike Belliveau (duelist1954) has a very good recent YouTube vid about shooting the Pietta Dance .44, and I have asked him if he would, as a trial, to swap barrel/cylinder from one of his Pietta Navy .36 pistols onto the Pietta Dance .44 frame and check the hand operation on the cylinder in this configuration. He has stated that he thought the hammer, trigger, and bolt screws were in a different configuration than the Pietta 1851 Navy. (I have a hard time thinking that Pietta reconfigured their standard 1851 Navy frame even slightly just to produce an obscure revolver that many folks may not be interested in, nor even heard of, and therefore not a big seller.)
No word so far.
If anyone has any other information about this, I would appreciate this immensely. I would like to add this Pietta .36 Dance to my sparse collection of 1851 Navy-type pistols insofar as interchangeable barrels/cylinders.
If the Pietta Dance pistol is viable to convert easily to .36 using Pietta 1851 Navy barrels/cylinders, I will have a plethora of many pistols just by barrel/cylinder exchange.
I might even have a replica fantasy of an 1851 Navy Squareback .44 Dragoon.
I don't want to purchase the Pietta Dance .44 until I feel sure that this scenario has a chance to work.
Thanks in advance for any information.
Jim