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    Fraged by My Musket

    Thanks for the feed back. I have an Ampco musket nipple on it and the hammer has never blown back. It was a fragment from one of the wings on the cap that got me but there was part of the cap still under the hammer on top of the nipple. These were CCI musket caps. I guess it was just a freak...
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    Fraged by My Musket

    Howdy All, It is good to be back on the board. I bought a used Zoli Zouave from a skirmisher. The wood to metal fit is bordering on horrible the front sight is bent to zero but this thing can shoot like I've never seen. With 42 grains of 3F and a Lee .578 460 grain Minnie bullet it shoots...
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    A cure for cap sucking Colt C&Bs

    Rodwha is correct. That being said, I did reangle the face of the hammers on my Remmys so that I got a completely flat impact surface against the nipples and then polished the hammer face. That did help with the with the few jams I got. Also the advise about not cocking the hammer to slowly...
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    A cure for cap sucking Colt C&Bs

    I took my Pietta apart put the hammer in a little hobby vise and with a small diamond file from the hobby shop, I rounded off every edge on the hammer face, I didn't just "break the edge." I then took some 400, 600, 1000 grit sand paper and polished all the surfaces of the hammer face. I have...
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    '58 Remington?

    I have shot thousands of rounds out of my pair of Remmys. I had cap jams, not many, but some. Recently got a Pietta 1860. It is flawless but had many cap jams. I rounded off all the edges on the hammer face, no more cap jams. Now I shoot the 1860 almost exclusively. For me the 1860 is better...
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    over ball lubricant recommendation

    Have you tried firing without and lube at all? When I shoot my Remingtons at CAS matches, I just shoot them with 40 grains of 2fg and just a ball. No wad or lube at all. Very accurate load and when I shoot Gunfighter category it makes a great spectacle. Now I must add that I rarely reload...
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    Caps falling into mechanism

    Further update, I replaced the Tresco nipples with the Pietta factory nipples and fired 36 shots using 38 grains of 2fg with both round ball and 220 grain Lee bullets. And again no cap jams at all. I was surprised by this even though Duelist1954 does the same thing in his video. I thought for...
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    Caps falling into mechanism

    Update, I just finished testing my Pietta 1860 army with the hammer face having all edges rounded off and polished mirror bright. I fired 48 rounds using loads from 30 to 38 grains of 2fg powder without one single cap jamming. All the fired caps stayed on the nipples until they were rotated...
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    Caps falling into mechanism

    I am dealing with the same issues. So far I replaced the cones with Tresco cones, which I had on hand, that helped but did not rid me of the problem completely. I watched a video by Duelist 1954 and what he did was to deburr the hammer face. I found that you just can’t polish the burrs away...
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    Better Rod for Lyman GPR?

    I use split hickory rods and similar to Brown Bear, I warm the rod and apply bee's wax to it until the rod is completely filled to the core. This is cheap and makes the rod virtually water proof. I've been doing this for a few years and I've never had a rod swell up in the thimbles even after...
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    Manufacturer Preference?

    M.D., I guess I left out the best part of the new Pietta, the internal parts are correctly harden. I was shocked. Them folks back in Italy must be listening.
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    Manufacturer Preference?

    I've been shooting a pair of Pietta New Army revolvers for cowboy action shooting for about 5 years and have shot thousand of rounds with them. When I got them they needed a little deburring and polishing internally, but it didn't take much and they have been running well. Now I have replaced...
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    sonic cleaning

    I have a couple of Remingtons, for which I have 10 cylinders. At CAS shoots I just change out the empty cylinders for preloaded ones and cap and shoot. When I get home I throw all the cylinders in the US cleaner with a solution of moose milk and run them to 7 minutes total time. Take them out...
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    Pietta 1860 Army Revolver Range Report

    Are you referring to the Navy grip?
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    Pietta 1860 Army Revolver Range Report

    I got this revolver last week. First thing I did was completely disassemble it, degrease it and remove any machining marks or burrs that were interfering with smooth operation. First shock, there were no burrs or marks that interfered with operation, none! I just polished things up, but it...
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