Ugly Sauce
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Can you spot the new kind on the block. Or...the chair? Second from left, the stubby barrel 1863 New Model Army Remington in .44". My VAST collection of FOUR! Dang, where will I put them all?
It's a Pietta, first one I've ever owned. No offense Pietta fans, but my Uberti does seem to be of slightly better quality. The action on the Uberti just feels "better". Of course, the Uberti Remington .36 was a sample gun, so it's a "ringer" for sure. I have not shot the new kid yet, I had to crown the muzzle. The muzzle had absolutely no crown. The pistol seems to be new, and possibly only fired a few times. The person I got it from/traded had it for three years or so without ever firing it.
However, she's loaded up and just waiting for me to step out on the back porch and pop off six. That depends on when I'm not too lazy to clean it. The cones on it are way way too small, so she's not ready for field duty until I get some replacements from TOW. In the field, I will not tolerate caps falling off the cones from recoil.
Comparing apples to oranges, for two guns that are supposed to be replicas of an original gun, the frame dimensions vary quite a bit between the Uberti and Pietta. The Pietta has a longer and thicker frame, where the barrel threads into it. The Pietta shows more threads where the barrel comes out of the frame. The loading port on the Pietta is not done well, I could not load a combustible cartridge with bullet, a round ball cartridge would load, I think. The hammers also have quite different contours/shapes.
The barrel on the Uberti is much smaller/thinner. You can actually see that in the pic. I find that interesting as the .36" is supposed to just be a .44 barrel bored to .36". ? That is true of the cylinder I'm sure, but now I suspect they use a different barrel of smaller dimension.
Anyhow, been wanting a Remington in .44", not sure why, won't do anything my 1860 can't do, the little extra powder the Remington holds isn't enough difference to make a difference, to my mind. Had I the choice, I would have gone with the longer barrel, but this one feels good in the hand, fits in my one size fits all (revolvers) flap holster and is just a pretty cool pistol. I mean, what's not to like? And now my Uberti Remington isn't lonely anymore, and out-numbered by the Colts. That situation had to be corrected.