. . . a little project . . .

[Wolfgang]

Unusual '58 . . .

http://www.drburkholter.com/cf18.html  . . . . 

[bedbugbilly]

Wolfgang - enjoyed reading about your "project".  For what it is worth, I have a '58 Remington marked "Richland Arms" as well.  It is brass framed and looks identical to yours - well, almost.  Mine belonged to a friend of mine who got me in to shooting NSSA many years ago.  He passed away and his widow gave it to me as a keepsake.  Unfortunately, the loading lever assembly was missing.  I am dating the revolver to the early sixties as that was the time of my friend taking me shooting and I remember we fired the revolver then.  If I remember correctly, Richland Arms was located in Blissfield, Michigan - not too far away from where I live in Michigan.  Mine has a nice set of ivory grips on it.  At any rate, the reason I'm responding to your post is to inquire as to what your thoughts are on my "missing" loading lever.  I picked up a spare loading lever that went to a Navy Arms '58 Remy and it was nowhere close to fitting.  (of course!)    From your statements, you seem to think it is a Pietta make?  I don't have access to a Pietta '58 Remy Army (I have the smaller Navy 36).  Could you take a "look see" at this revolver and see if you think a Pietta loading lever would work?  Many thanks.

(I'm in AZ for the winter and my pistol is in the safe back in MI so I don't have access to it right now)

[GunClick Rick]

Wolfy you did it again Now i wanna know how it shoots..Nice little project..

[Wolfgang]

BedBugBilly . . .

The fellow that mine came from got in touch with me on another forum and sed :

". . . . my ex wife bought it for me at a Montgomery Wards in San Jose California around 1982"

Importers often got their guns from different manfactures at different times.  I'm sure mine is Pietta made since Pietta cylinders slip right in and index perfect.  Yours may not be Pietta made, best I could suggest is trying different loading arms when you get the oportunity.  You can make it shootable like I did at first on this "Sherriff's Model"   http://www.drburkholter.com/cf4.html the first version with the bit of bent wire.  Worked fine . . . just didn't "look right" on a Remington without the web under the barrel.

[Hoof Hearted]

Guys...........
The Pietta and Euroarms usually will interchange cylinders while the Uberti will not.
The Pietta and Uberti will interchange Loading rammers (sometimes the Uberti needs fitting where it contacts the cylinder pin).
I would venture to say that the Euroarms rammer would be a closer fit for Bedbug Billy's pistol............based on my experience.

BedBugBilly . . .

The fellow that mine came from got in touch with me on another forum and sed :

". . . . my ex wife bought it for me at a Montgomery Wards in San Jose California around 1982"

Importers often got their guns from different manfactures at different times.  I'm sure mine is Pietta made since Pietta cylinders slip right in and index perfect.  Yours may not be Pietta made, best I could suggest is trying different loading arms when you get the oportunity.  You can make it shootable like I did at first on this "Sherriff's Model"   http://www.drburkholter.com/cf4.html the first version with the bit of bent wire.  Worked fine . . . just didn't "look right" on a Remington without the web under the barrel.

[Wolfgang]

I have both Piettas. . . lots of them, and two by Army San Marco, and had a Euroarms ( gave it to my brother ) cylinders on these three were not interchangable.  Don't know about rammers as I've had no reason to play with exchangiing them.