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My dad's got a Pietta 1858 Remington copy. He's been shooting competition for years and holds a Master's rating. In his hand's I've seen him put five shots in one ragged hole on a standard slow fire target at 50 feet. Not exactly sure what load he uses, I figure it's about 25 grains of P pyrodex, a .44 caliber wonder wad and a .451 swaged roundball. The sights are poorly regulated on this particular gun since it does group about 3-4 inches to the left of point of aim and a little low. I just built an 1858 off of one of Dixie's kits and I shortend the barrel down a couple of inches and installed a thinner front sight on the barrel. After some regulating, it groups point of aim at 50 feet. This would be easy to do on one of the Cabela's revolvers too, fact I think my father wants me to regulate his sometime in the near future.
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