Pietta-made Thunderstorm Thunderer .45 Colt

[Cholla Hill Tirador]

indoor , Long deliberate aimed, bench rest shots ...but I'll take it.

Awww, come on....there's life outside of shooting large targets placed a few steps away!  He done good!

  CHT

[Major 2]

This is interesting, I've found the Pietta's from Cimarron to be great guns. I bought two of each barrel length of their Frontier model on 44-40. Anyone know why Cimarron might be going away from Pietta?

DD

I don't believe they are    ,

however, Pietta has discontinued "Thunderstorm"  in name ..in favor of a different version...

EMF is no longer stocking Uberti.... but is a Pietta stocking importer.

My understanding Cimarron imports both Uberti & Pietta

[Abilene]

There are just TOO many versions of competition guns.  The Thunderstorm was originally a mounted shooting gun until turned down hammers became legal for SASS.  Since Pietta makes the short-stroked guns (Eliminators), I guess Cimarron decided to let Pietta put their production efforts into those guns, and keep the non-shortstroked competition guns (Evil Roys with standard hammers and Thunderstorms with Turned down hammers) coming from Uberti.

[BurritoBandito]

Yup, that's what Valerie said, too.

There was some confusion since two different manufacturers were producing guns with the same features and same name.

So Cimarron isn't moving away from Pietta, but the pietta guns with the turned down hammers and action jobs are just called the eliminator series. Also I think the one with the thunderer stle grip only comes in blued with a 3 1/2 in barrel but I'm not sure.


In the end of it, I just paid the difference in cash for a stainless thunderstorm thunder with  4 3/4 in barrel from uberti.

I haven't got to shoot it yet, but the action very smooth and light. It feels good in the hand and feels well balanced.

The low hammer profile sure makes one handed cocking a whole lot easier. Now, Valerie did offer to send me a Pietta eliminator with Thunderer' grip and cch, blued etc... But I'd rather use the price difference for a shiny stainless steel pistol that'll hold up the Florida muggy, salty rust-inducing environment. And it's shiny.

[Major 2]

where in Florida ?   

[BurritoBandito]

The Emerald Coast,

[Coffinmaker]

If it ain't next to Disney World, it's immaterial.

[Major 2]

Ah  Panhandle .... 

I'm next to WDW

[Don Nix]

mine are blue

[BurritoBandito]

Its been enough to rust everything else that wasn't parkerized.
See emerald coast... I live on the beach. Lots of salty air.

[BurritoBandito]

So after I've fired about 100 rounds through it, I've determined Uberti can make a fine revolver.
That extended  Birdhead grip is comfortable and looks good, but so far the heaviest loads I've fired have been the federal 225gr swchp. Very accurate with those.
I've already mentioned how smooth the action is but I'll mention it again. The action is smooth as silk and the trigger break is as close to perfect as I've personally experienced.
The missus don't like it as much as I do, though she can handle it just fine, she says it's too heavy.
I want to try it with some classic 250gr at about 850-900fps.
I've decided, however, I'm gonna have to load my own for this pistol as factory loads cost way too much and typically can't find what I want.
It's a pussycat with cowboy loads, no recoil noticed.

What I don't understand.. When I shoot the federal 225swchp
There's noticeable recoil... Shooting Winchester's 225pdx1 at similar velocity, I feel no recoil. Makes no sense(unless I've got the numbers confused), and so far, those pdx1s have not met any of my water jug setups that'll stop them to recover a bullet... They either go all the way thru or curve down rapidly and go in the ground.
Fired one into some phone books and the bullet was just a little deformed and packed with paper.
It must not be going fast enough from this short barrel to expand ?
They're not super accurate from this gun, either, but would hit the killzone on a human easily enough, though so far, I wouldn't trust them to stop in the first body...

Back to the gun, I finally got a sandisk, so I'll get some pictures of it loaded on here soon, and I'd like to say again, the action is amazingly smooth.