What pistol is your FAVORITE , to go with your 1873 Rifle .

[Rowdy Fulcher]

Howdy
I have a 5 1/2 USFA prewar in 44wcf of course . I also have a Taylor's 4 3/4 Smoke wagon . These are a couple of choices I enjoy carrying , and shooting .  I have a 7 1/2 ordered with the charcoal bluing and a German Silver front sight . Can't wait to get it .

[Forty Rod]

5 1/2" .45 SAA.  My first when I was 14 and still my favorite.

[Rowdy Fulcher]

Forty Rod
Sounds like a fine choice . I take it you've had that Pistol about 10 years . 

[Forty Rod]

10 years my a--!  That gun was new and they'd only been on the civilian market about a month. 

[MJN77]

Either my Cimarron/Uberti model P with the BP frame with 7 1/2 inch barrel, or my 1905 made Colt new service with 5 1/2 inch barrel. Both are chambered in .44-40.

[Charlie Bison]

Howdy
I have a 5 1/2 USFA prewar in 44wcf of course . I also have a Taylor's 4 3/4 Smoke wagon . These are a couple of choices I enjoy carrying , and shooting .  I have a 7 1/2 ordered with the charcoal bluing and a German Silver front sight . Can't wait to get it .

Who did you order the silver front sight option through?

[Mustang Gregg]

Ruger Vaqueros.

[Rowdy Fulcher]

Howdy
I ordered the Silver front sight through 3 B shooting supplies . Which means it will be a Cimarron custom order   .

[Thomas (Tom) Horn aka James Hicks]

Rowdy,

I shoot the Uberti's. I have 2 Cattlemen 4.75" think they are called "Gunfighter" models.  They are in the Old Model Frame (BP);  2 Smoke Wagons Artillery 5.5" Deluxe models and Two Hawg Leggs 7.5". One of the Hawg Leggs is a Cattleman and the other is a Cimarron Custer Model both 7.5" are in Old Model frames (BP). The Smoke Wagon's are my favorite.  The Hawg Leggs I love, but they are slow on the draw...laughing.  All are in 45LC.  Am trying to muster the nerve of shooting "Gunfighter" at the stages with the hawg leggs, that appears to be a hoot.

[The Pathfinder]

Well Rowdy I don't really have 'a' favorite. Some days I use my two Colt 44 caliber Peacemaker Centennials, other days I use my pair of third gen  4 3/4" black powder frame 44-40s, and other days my USFA 7 1/2" black powder frame SAAs. Kinda depends on how I'm feeling on that given day.

[Major 2]

Richards conversions 7 1/2 inch in 44 Colt

[Rowdy Fulcher]

Howdy
Got a chance to go shoot after work . The short rifle shoots GREAT . I shot my 4 3/4 my 5 1/2 and the 7 1/2 the old long barrel sure lays them in there .

[Slowhand Bob]

I have three '73s and each is matched to a pair of 4 3/4" ER revolvers, one complete set each in 357, 44-40 and .45.  I actually use the 45s most often for SASS but, for whatever reason, call the 44-40s my favorites??  The 357s are used strictly for the odd occasions on which I feel a real need to see targets for some  odd reason and shoot smokeless.  Mind games, to explain an addiction, I guess.     

[Johnny McCrae]

I shoot .45 Schofield rounds in a pair of 1873 SAA's. One is a USFA and the other is a GW II by Pietta, both with 5-1/2" barrels. In my 1873 I shoot .45 Colt.

[Rowdy Fulcher]

Howdy
Seems to be several 5 1/2 guns out there . Lots of 45 lc also , good caliber .

[Tall Dark Slim]

3.75" .45 Vaquero. Works well in close after the '73's run dry. 

[Grapeshot]

I use a pair of .45 Colt Dakotas, SAA Clones.  One is an old EMF/Jaeger I got in 1988, the other is a GW2 I purchased in 2008.  Both have 7.5 inch barrels and 1860 sized Grip Frames and outfitted with True Ivory Grips.  These are the primary revolvers I use with my 1873 .44/40 (WCF) Short Rifle.

I use Black Powder in all of them with Big Lube Boolits* and am very happy with that combination.

[Buck Stinson]

I have several 1st Gen Colts, but my favorite shooter/carry gun is a UAFA 4 3/4" .44WCF.  When I was 12 years old, (I'm now 62) my folks bought me my first Colt SA for Christmas.  It was an 1878 vintage .44WCF that came out of Mexico.  The original 7 1/2" barrel had been cut many years earlier to 4 3/4".  I shot that gun until it was no longer servicable.  I've been fortunate enough to have had serveral since then, but found that the USAF gun served my "carry" purpous perfectly.  It still had the old feel of an orignial 1st Gen Colt, but it is also a pistol I can use without concern about wear and tear, like I would an expensive original.  I also have the same gun in a .38WCF and love it just as much as a good shooter.

[Grapeshot]

Here are the ones I usually use with my 1873 Short Rifle.

[Trailrider]

Ruger OMV's, one 7-1/2" and one 5-1/2" to go with either a Navy Arms (Uberti) Henry or a Rossi, all .44-40!