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Colt 1851 Navy VS Colt 1862 Navy?
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Within the same brand the barrel assemblies will interchange though given Italian manufacturing tolerances it might work out so well.
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You can check revolvers from a manufacturer and find that cylinders and barrels will not be interchangeable. Recently went through that myself with some from Pietta and I think it is because the manufacturer went through different eras in how the operation was run.
I know that Pietta had made some major changes since the mid 90's though I don't know when and the changes may have been spread over a number of years. With my comment on tolerances I was using the term interchangeably loosely. I have 3 .44 "'51 Navies" by Pietta made in the same time frame and I can swap barrel assys. and cylinders and end up with a revolver that will shoot but it's far from perfect and requires a wooden mallet to put the barrel on in a couple of instances. While the '51 & '61 barrel assembleys would interchange they would need hand fitting to be correct.
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