My 1858 New model Navy

[treebeard]

A few years back I was traveling thu Texas and spotted a gun show and on impulse pulled in out of curiousity.
came across a nice looking and nice handling little Remington model percussin .36. Right price and left with it. Turns out
it is a 1858 New Model Navy reproduction. Marked Westerners Arms and found the Uberti symbol on it. Looked up
the date code and turns out it was made in 1960. Just goes to show you that you can never predict where or
when a nice little gem will show up.

[hellgate]

I found one like that in great shape for about 100 bucks with (I think)  Navy Arms on the barrel & the Uberti symbol  showing it was made in 1968. Interestingly, it had a fixed front sight instead of the dovetails I've seen on later Ubertis and the Euroarms Remingtons.

[treebeard]

Mine came with the fixed front sight however the late and very great Tom Ball installed a dovetail tall front sight and
also a target cone for NSSA competition. As he explained it the target cone eased the ball into the rifleing and made
up for minor variations in how the charging holes lined up with the barrel.