Pietta Navy Colt Question

[Harley Starr]

Do the Pietta Navy guns have barrel to arbor fit issues?

[Paladin UK]

Ho TR....

From what I can remember nearly all Italian opentops have an Arbor-Barrel fit issue, I think generally the Pietta seems to have a closer factory fit, I`m sure I will be corrected iffn I`ve got it wrong!! Pettiggger shows a fix for this, quite easy to do and makes one hell of a difference

Paladin (What hopes he`s helped  ) UK

[Mako]

Usually they don't.  It depends upon when they were made.  The current crop seems to have the correct arbor length and arbor hole depth.  They commonly have timing issues.  The grips are also goofy in the their shape.

But as soon as I post this, there will be an exception.  It seems the exceptions "are the rule" with Italian revolvers.

~Mako

[Slowhand Bob]

AH, those Pietta grips are my favorite Navy grips.  Sometimes the weird stuff is just what works for a certain percentage of us shooters.  Somewhat like the Frankenstein 44cal '51 with a short barrel, as offered by Pietta.  For the purist this is enough to drive one crazy but for the heathen masses amongst us, this is certainly much cheaper than starting with a true 1860 clone and buying new parts to build our dream gun.  Since we now know that Colt did do a run of 1860s with the Navy grip frames, perhaps someone well placedwill get the word and offer a clone of this early crossover  revolver.  There was once a time that Uberti and Pietta seemed to monitor and even chime in occasionally on various forums, suc as this, but I have not seen that in some time now.

[The Pathfinder]

At one time ASM did offer the 1860 with navy sized grip frame. Picked one up out in Californy territory back when I was travelin' for Uncle. Sent it off to John Gren (God, I'm dating myself) for conversion to 44 Colt heeled bullet. Shoots like a dream, but a pain to load for compared to my Richards II. First bullets I cast for it were from a Rapine mold and I had to file the noses flat to get them to fit in the cylinder (too long), but they shot well.

[Fingers McGee]

Usually they don't.  It depends upon when they were made.  The current crop seems to have the correct arbor length and arbor hole depth.  They commonly have timing issues.  The grips are also goofy in the their shape.

But as soon as I post this, there will be an exception.  It seems the exceptions "are the rule" with Italian revolvers.

~Mako

What Mako said +1.  Especially the goofy grips part.

I've got some Piettas that are good, and some that need work.

[Coffinmaker]

Crap Shoot,  You pays your monies and take your chances.  Could go either way.

Coffinmaker