pietta 1858 Date code = BH parts compatibility

[devious Dave]

Hi, I'm sorta new to black powder and especially this forum, so I hope this is the appropriate place to ask general questions.

I recently acquired a Pietta 1858 .44 cal with a date code of BH, which I'm assuming is 1996.

I was wondering if anyone here has any knowledge on parts compatibility with this. Will new Pietta 1858 parts work? Everything seems to be functional but I'd like to know if I can use new production parts if I need to ever replace anything.

 

[SmokepoleSam]

We don't discuss conversion cylinders on this site you can go to our sister site www.modernmuzzleloader.com. You can talk about the gun on this site. Welcome to the forum.

 

[devious Dave]

We don't discuss conversion cylinders on this site you can go to our sister site www.modernmuzzleloader.com. You can talk about the gun on this site. Welcome to the forum.

Sorry about that I'll edit that part out of my post the rest would still be relevant I believe

 

[ppg1949]

I have a Pietta 1862 Police that needed all new screws, a new trigger and a new hammer and pawl or hand due to rust. I went to Ebay and punched it in with out regard to my code date and only had to shorten the pawl a millimeter to fit. Only thing I’ve heard about parts not fitting regarding dates has to do with the unmentionable cylinder you referenced.
Good luck.

 

[No second place]

I have found the 2012 and later Pietta Colt and Remington mostly drop in interchangeable for parts. My older Before 2000 models mostly need fitting...

 

[Smokerr]

I would hope to see the experts chime in.

I have a 1976 Ameri San Paola (ASP) NMA which has been subsumed in the various drop out and continuing of firms in that odd Italian Industry (granted BP revolvers are odd).

What I can say its Pietta Parts are visually the closest to that gun. It had a timing issue and the bolt had been messed with (it looked like someone swiped a file on the finger (plow handles?) on it though the screws showed no indication of having been taken out - at a guess it was hand fitting attempt that hit the wrong spot)

Just to have some parts I had gotten an Uberti Parts kit and that bolt was very wrong on the bolt end but the plow handle end (arms?) looked the same. I ground the bolt end down to fit and it worked.

I was sleuthing on parts and saw the Pietta bolt looked the same as the ASP, so I got one of those. It did not work on the arms end though it fit the slot right. Timing was totally wrong.

My guess is unless its pretty current, its a guess as to what might and might not work.

I bought a Pietta NMA as I wanted to play with one more, its timing works fine, I got extra cylinders for it. All work fine.

I tried the ASP cylinder in the Pietta, it was quite a bit too short though it turned fine.

The Pietta cylinder of course are too long for the ASP.

 

[hawkeye2]

I don't see any exposed barrel threads in the photo and if there are none it isn't a Pietta but more likely a Euroarms (Armi San Palo).

 

[devious Dave]

I don't see any exposed barrel threads in the photo and if there are none it isn't a Pietta but more likely a Euroarms (Armi San Palo).

It definitely is a pietta it's just not a good photo the barrel has it marked
I didn't realize you could distinguish them that way id looked at a lot of different ones before I went with this one id seen the euro arms and the armi san palo ones as well but I figured those would be hard to source parts for
Thank you for the info