Pietta 1860's converted to .45 Schofield.

[Grapeshot]

I have a pair of Pietta 1860 Armies that are gathering dust in my trunk in the attic.  I want to play with them but I really don't want to go thru the cleaning process I know I will with a C&B revolver.  I already shoot BP in my SAA Clones, but want to shoot the '60's.  So who is making a good conversion kit for the 1860's?

[Major 2]

Both  R&D & Kirst make drop-in

Kirst has a gated conversions ( VTI carries the Kirst ) Or contact  Hoof Harted or Jay Strite

Both have done work for me with harmonous outcome ...

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

I don't find the cleaning process any more difficult than with BP cartidge arms.  With the OTs, just disassemble them and everything in front of the breach face goes in the soapy water. The mainframe doesn't need to be stripped except once a year, just wipe off all visible BP residue with a dampened patch. Removing and cleaning the nipples is a bit fiddly, but not difficult, but that is the only extra chore required of a percission revolver. Everything else you are already doing!

I think you owe it to yourself to give your 1860's a try.

Both the R&D and the Kirst are usually chambered in .45 Colt.  Both the Schofield and Cowboy Special rounds also fit as they are shorter versions of the same basic case.  O.K;  The Schofield as origionally made had a wider rim for the ejection star on the S&W

[rbertalotto]

Get in touch with Hoof, Get the Kirst. If you are uncomfortable filing the recoil shield, have Hoof do it. You are gonna love it!

[PJ Hardtack]

Sir Chuck

Spoken like a man who hasn't had the joy of shooting cap & balls through a big match .... ;>)

This year at Hefley Creek (Palmer's Gulch), 5 of us from 'Rope Burn City' will be shooting cap & ball pistols and BP in our long guns. When others are socializing and relaxing, we'll be cleaning, even at lunch break.

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Sir Chuck

Spoken like a man who hasn't had the joy of shooting cap & balls through a big match .... ;>)

This year at Hefley Creek (Palmer's Gulch), 5 of us from 'Rope Burn City' will be shooting cap & ball pistols and BP in our long guns. When others are socializing and relaxing, we'll be cleaning, even at lunch break.

Not often, but I have used percussion revolvers at least once at the HQ mach, and plan on doing it that way from now on! Oh, and I had to use percussion revolvers in England.  Twice

[PJ Hardtack]

Now that's 'Cowboy'!

If anything can go wrong with a pistol during a match, it will happen to a cap & ball gun - especially a Colt 'Wedgie'. That's why I'll be shooting Remingtons .....