Subdeacon Joe Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Bullweed Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Seen plenty of photos of these revolvers over the years but never knew how they worked. Thanks. Cool gun. Nice grouping. I still oike the bobbed hammer DA Adams from England. I think that if I had lived during the CW and/or Old West, the Adams would have been my preferred sidearm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Thanks for posting this, it was nicely done. The revolver groups low and left, just like a Ruger Vaquero! A gun ahead of its time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Awesome !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 I want a pair. Lots of style points. Thanks for sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Dang! And I thought I'd seen it all and was ready to die happy! WAY cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleburne, SASS # 39597 Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Would love to see Uberti or Pietta come out with an affordable repro! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg Hair, SASS #29557 Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 What's amazing is the technological inventiveness of designers of that era...............................AND, there were no CAD programs computers nor CNC machines. Come to think about it we went to the moon using slide rules! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Come to think about it we went to the moon using slide rules! And before the Department of Education was created! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Would love to see Uberti or Pietta come out with an affordable repro! How many thousands of dollars would you consider "affordable"? Tooling up for that one would entail considerable costs, and I wonder how many they could actually sell. I'll tell you something about the Savage Navy. First, a "standard" Pattern 1863 holster is way too small! I know, because I have seen and measured the documented holster owned by Lt. Fred Beecher during the CW. Unfortunately, his nephews sold the gun right after WWII, and couldn't remember what kind it was. But you could drop a '51 Colt's Navy or M1860 Army in that holster and have room to spare for a deringer! In addition, a Savage Navy acquired by the owner just to go with the holster (without any intention of passing that gun off as Beecher's!) fits exactly! Unfortunately, the replacement Savage isn't in the best condition, and the owner was reluctant to shoot it. Certainly an interesting gun...a "one-and-a-half cocker??? ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 My first reaction was what a weird duck. But watching I could see the genius come out. Very advanced for 1860. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Even with a little gas leakage around the barrel/cylinder junction, and with the longer chambers than, say a '51 Colt's Navy, I wonder what the MV would have been. Frankly, I think it would have made a good repeating rifle, as a stock would have made it a bit easier to handle. One thing that got me interested in guns in general was the intricacies of some of the CW arms, even if they weren't the commercial successes of Colt's, S&W and Remington. Sometimes the times dictate the market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Bullweed Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 This Savage pistol posting made me check my Colt books. Sam Colt's first guns were Patterson models where the trigger drops from the frame when the hammer is cocked. His second group of guns include ring cocked rifle and shotguns that wprked just like this Savage. He made these guns in the late 1830s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krazy Kajun Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Kind of cool having the offset hammer so you can look down the sights....definitely a different look compared to other cap and ball guns I've seen. Kajun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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