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Colorado Coffinmaker

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  1. Unfortunately, your question is some ambiguous. You have a single choice for "Parts." Uberti makes the parts for Uberti guns. The only choices for those parts is where you may get the "best" prices. VTI Gunparts, Taylors & Co., Cimarron, Dixie gun works. Shop the prices and dot forget to include shipping in your costs. Springs you have to quantify. Main Springs seldom if ever break, no matter whom they are made by. OEM Uberti main Springs last forever but are heavy. Pietta Mainsprings will last forever and are lighter. Wolff Springs are heavier than Pietta and will last forever, Lee's Gunsmithing springs are lighter and will last forever. Trigger/Bolt springs break. ALL of the OEM T/B springs will fail. Most reliable T/B springs are Wire Springs (Lee's??), check Brownells. Uberti flat hand springs are fragile and will break eventually, at the worst possible time. Coil spring and Plunger for the hand is far superior and are forever. Some guns need to be modified for coil spring and plunger.
  2. Just exactly whom, suggested spending money on an "Annealing Machine??" Annealing can be done very cheaply. Very Cheaply indeed. All one needs is a standard Half inch socket, an inch and half quarter twenty bolt and nut and a variable speed drill motor, either corded or cordless, and Camping bottle of Propane with a torch head. What makes you some one anyone has to "Prove" anything to. What has been said can be easily be demonstrated for yourself if you're not too pompous to pay attention to someone besides yourself. In fact, you haven't posted any demonstrative test results quantifying what, if any, mitigation you have accomplished. Get over yourself. Get a SASS number. you've been a "Guest" long enough
  3. Blow-By in a Toggle Link Rifle when shooting "most" smokeless isn't much of an issue. The carrier block just gums up until it sticks and jams the rifle. A little squirt of Break Free and yer back in business. The Toggle Link Carrier Block deflects the majority of the Gun Gas straight up out of the Mortice. With Straight line actions, the Blow-By passes straight back, past the Breach Block into the shooters face. Not so Bueno. Blow-By in a Toggle Link or Straight Line Rifle with Black Powder or Subs (APP), Is another matter. The Blow-By can foul out the chamber in just a few rounds to the point the action won't extract reliably. When we speak of the Blow-By problem, we must remember, in the past, 44 Henry Flat, 44 Henry CF and 44 Stetson cartridges were Copper and sealed the chamber nicely. Next up were the Bottle Neck rifle cartridges that seals the chamber quite nicely. 45 Colt, even in the early cartridges was never an acceptable rifle cartridge. ALL of the big bore modern Straight Wall "pistol" cartridges, used in rifles suffer Blow-By. Same same, it's not so much of a problem with smokeless as it is with BP and Subs. Again, Heavy loads, Big Bullets and Neck Sizing will not stop the Blow-By. Mitigate slightly - Yes. Stop - NO. Annealing is the answer.
  4. There may be those who can take advantage of that elusive thousandth of a second per target set. I ain't one of them. I did the "switch trigger" on my first Stoeger. Amazing how it immediately started to "double." Don't ask How I found out about relieving the "new" back trigger. Also did a lot of switch trigger for TTNs. I found switch trigger completely unnecessary on my Pedersoli nor my Pietta.
  5. PLUS ONE for Hashknife. I have a 16 inch barrel Henry Trapper in 45 Colt. Loading with Cowboy 45 Special and 180Gr RNFP over a full case of 3f APP I can hit at 200 yards. Rear sight is a Smith Enterprises Ladder on the barrel and an OEM Henry Blade on the front. I sighted the rifle AT 200 yards. Took lots of shooting. Make a nice Pastrami sandwich waiting for impact Won't claim MOA accuracy but could achieve Minute of Volkswagen
  6. BIG PLUS ONE for Bullets by Scarlett you betcha!!
  7. Coot, The "Lee's gunsmithing gunfighter" main spring was my "go-to" spring for action work for a very long time. They don't actually need any smoothing or polishing. Just make sure the top end of the spring doesn't drag on the back radius of the hammer.
  8. Deacon, I might introduce ya to "Hacksaw MacGurk." MacGurk can solve that "excess" steel on the front of yer shotgun you betcha.
  9. YES SIR!!! Absolutely!! Atza Rolling Block Rifle you betcha
  10. Mine just happens to be a 72Inch LG "Smart TV." And yes, it takes an old codger like me to learn to operate it. Worth it though. Movies and Football onna Big Screen Yes, it takes and old codger like me "a while" to learn to operate it. Connected our cable service and we get all sorts of really good streaming
  11. I may not be a good example. I load on DILLON 650s. I use Dillon Dies so I load with a seating die and a crimping die. Some Lustrum ago, when I loaded on a single stage press, I liked the RCBS seat/crimp die. Worked well. I do believe in using ALL the available spaces on a progressive press. that even allows me to use some specialty dies for some cartridges.
  12. If you get the new one from the right folks, they deliver it, un-pack it, take away the box AND the old junker.
  13. I have no idea what all publications might be involved beyond GOTOW. However, I gave up on GOTOW a couple of years ago. There wern't enough articles of interest to justify the price, and the articles of interest were filled with inaccuracies.
  14. I know how to pick one up and clear it at the Un-Loading table
  15. Jake, Nope. Both the Pedersoli and the Pietta close up just lake any other Double. Suspect Hickok was just being "kind" to his loaner. Also, as an aside, My gun DID NOT have a mat finish on the barrels and I believe it to be Hard Chrome as well. The bores are also chrome lined. Really superb.
  16. No No Alpo!! It's a "How Long Can You Tread Water" post. Sorta. Almost. Kinda.
  17. Rye!! You're so right. Back then I was able to score mine on sale from Dixie. $1275. That was a while ago.
  18. Sawhorse, Funny you should mention that. I also picked up one of the FIRST Pietta guns. Looked so close to my Pedersoli and took 'em both apart. Identical. ALL the parts interchange. Don't know if that's still the case, but I was certain Pedersoli was making guns for Pietta although Pietta says otherwise.
  19. I got mine a good while back. They are the finest made Hammer Doubles out there. Expensive yes, but well worth the price.
  20. What, I might ask, does criticism of the taping have to do with the Shotgun?? The Shotgun is the Star, not the tape. Sheesh
  21. Yep. The most fun is when the Spring and Ball launch at the same time NOT. Neither the '66 nor the Henry have Dust Covers, and when we think about it, the Dust Cover on the '73 serves no real purpose in our game. My Main Match rifles are Henrys. Never needed a Dust Cover.
  22. Some Lustrum ago, there was a great and oft heated debate about the wiseness/dumbness of removing the Trigger Block Safety on the Uberti 1873. The reasoning for removal was the Spring. That spring was best used as an overload spring on a pick-up truck. Then the Major manufacturers jumped in and made after-market springs so you don't know the safety is there. Taking out the safety as opposed to a 8 or 10 dollar spring seems . . . silly. PLUS ONE for Phantom
  23. Hugs to Scarlett Darlin!! Ain't a more deserving person than Scarlett. MOST KOOL INDEED!!
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