My poor man's Augusta Machine Works clone

[Stantheman86]

I dropped a plain cylinder in a Pietta Navy and made an Augusta Machine Works copy, or whatever other CS revolvers were Colt Navy clones with octagonal barrels and steel frames like the Columbus or Todd revolver.

I just like the plain cylinder look

Also did the same with a .44

 

[user 48679]

Me likey too.......

 

[maillemaker]

Neat!

I had never heard of these so I did a quick Google and found this nice page:

https://www.littlegun.info/arme americaine/revolver confedere/a revolver confedere augusta gb.htm

 

[Stantheman86]

It's just a fun side hobby to piece together the Confederate Navy copies

There was so much variation even from the same gunmaker it's easy to find one that's more like a standard Navy , a Columbus revolver is basically the same as an Augusta revolver as far as making a repro since they both apparently used round and octagonal barrels. I'm going to add stuff like the stamped numbers at some point. I really don't care about the Pietta barrel stamps. I just shoot em I'm not trying to make exact clones . That would involve a lot more work.

To further muddy the waters I just read that some Confederate guns have been found with salvaged Colt Navy parts and are "hybrid " guns. Which makes sense, if a small gunmaker could get a few real Colt frames from damaged or broken guns it would save time and material to build guns on them and not fabricate new frames

Also the .44 Navy "fantasy guns" may not be as fantasy as we thought since some of these gunmakers played around with .44 prototypes but the Confederate govt wanted .36's , since the 1851 Navy was the "standard" sidearm