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I know you folks are fans of the Pietta .36 "Pepperbox" (which it is not as it has no barrels), but I think it is an answer to a question that should never have been asked.
How is it that long cylinder could not be overloaded beyond metal tolerances?
I have eight Pietta Navy .36 "type" pistols and because they are like the Legos of the replica BP revolver world. I have created a few .36 pistols that Pietta does not currently offer, and could easily create and have a market for, and have nearly all parts in stock or could create from their CNC software:
1851 Navy 2nd model
1851 Navy 3rd Model (currently produced)
Griswold and Gunnison (scarce at best)
Leech & Rigdon (steel frame with the smooth cylinder and the part-round barrel from the G&G)
Schneider & Glassick (smooth cylinder and octagonal barrel, brass frame)
Rigdon & Ansley (steel frame, part-round barrel and a 12-stop slot smooth cylinder, which would only take a bit more machining for the stop slots, as opposed to manufacturing the huge cylinder on the "pepperbox")
Augusta Machine Works with the 12-stop slot smooth cylinder
Columbus Firearms Manufacturing Company
If Pietta has almost all of these parts in inventory, why do they not know that there would be a demand for these guns and instead produce Frankenguns with no historical significance?
Your call, folks.
Regards,
Jim
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