Antique Colt 1860 Army Engraved

[Bad Karma]

thank you Rawhide67, I almost lost my sleep bcos I could not remember where I had seen spring plunger like that. Ruger Old Army that's absolutely correct. So this whole alternation was most probably done in second part of 20th century

Have you had a chance to shoot it? Looking at the hammer I kind of wonder if it wasn’t replaced while the other modifications and refinishing occurred. Colts hammers followed the curves of the recoil shield a bit more closely. Still very nice work and thanks for showing it to us.

 

[bornintheussr]

yes had fun with this gun on the range another day also custom made antler grips for it

 

[Relic shooter]

yes had fun with this gun on the range another day also custom made antler grips for it

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Pretty !!
Hard to match the natural pointing of an 1860 Colt.
Show us some 2" groups with it @ 20 yds.
P.S. my orig. Colts & Remington .44s require .457 dia. round balls to group well.
I took Mike's/45ds advice to pack the actions on my C&B revolvers with Mobile 1 full synthetic, major action improvement & prevents caps & crud from jamming the action.
Goes to show you can teach old-dogs new tricks
Relic shooter

 

[Dude]

Doesn't look chrome plated to me - more like polished. I've got a Pietta that was abused and roughly worked over by the previous owner. I doctored it and finished it up. Once started (removing all the written garbage) it's tough not eliminating it all, and that's what I did. So now it's all polished up and, except for the engraving, has the same finish.

The originals had progressive rifling as I recall. I couldn't see if yours has it in the photo.