My Pietta 1858 Army

[ernbar]

Made it to the range yesterday to test out the action shield I installed in the hammer. I also pumped high temp grease into the internals to seal out fouling and rust. The Pietta ran great and the cylinder began to get stiff after 56 rounds of .44 round balls using 25 grains of Schuetzen BP loaded into my home made plastic tubing quick loaders. Cleaning was a snap not having to completely tear down the pistol.

 

[TrapperDude]

Are you shooting at Fish Hawk Sporting Clay's?

Nice grouping, by the way.

 

[Stantheman86]

Very Nice

Makes me want to try mine out again

 

[ernbar]

Are you shooting at Fish Hawk Sporting Clay's?

Nice grouping, by the way.

oh no, that is near Tampa. Im a member of The Chuleota Sprtmans Club near my house in Oviedo.

 

[TrapperDude]

oh no, that is near Tampa. Im a member of The Chuleota Sprtmans Club near my house in Oviedo.

Since we moved west, it's been a while since I've seen Fish Hawk Sporting Clay's, but your range made me think of that when I saw it.

This is from a few years ago. There are only two holes in the target because my powder flask ran out at two chambers loaded, and I'd just put up a new target.

 

[ernbar]

Since we moved west, it's been a while since I've seen Fish Hawk Sporting Clay's, but your range made me think of that when I saw it.

This is from a few years ago. There are only two holes in the target because my powder flask ran out at two chambers loaded, and I'd just put up a new target.
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Yea it looks very similar to where I go. I used to go to the Titusville Gun Range about a 45 minute drive but this one is 10 minutes away and the range guys are super nice and helpful. Just wished they had a 200-300 meter rifle line instead of 100 meters. Still a very nice place to burn ammo.

 

[dylan84]

The trick with those is grease under the bullet or ball and you can shoot until you are sick of it. The cylinder will still be free and with the right amount of grease no real reason to even clean except with at barrel swab (don't even really need to do that). The soap and water thing is for the birds! lol

 

[Pete453]

Dylan has it 100% correct. Couple pictures of my barrels. They're just as clean after4 or 5 cylinders. I don't have pictures of my 58 Remington, but it looks the same.