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I am looking at purchasing a 44 cal cap and ball revolver. These guns are listed as brass or steel, I have been told to buy a steel frame one because overtime the brass frame may stretch, is this true. how about a stainless gun, is BP just as corrosive on stainless as everything else.
 
A brass is usually cheaper. Steel is more authentic, unless your replica is a confederate revolver. Stainless will be much easier to maintain but is usually more expensive and not as authentic. As far as stretching goes, you would have to do a lot of shooting for that to happen... Also, the bigger the caliber and the stronger the load, the worst that problem may be, obviously... I like my steel frame repro .44 Remington 1858. All you need to do is clean everything with hot soapy water after each shooting session, dry the thing in the oven and oil liberally!
 
al100 said:
I am looking at purchasing a 44 cal cap and ball revolver. These guns are listed as brass or steel, I have been told to buy a steel frame one because overtime the brass frame may stretch, is this true. how about a stainless gun, is BP just as corrosive on stainless as everything else.
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I think today most companys are brass plating over steel frames, instead of an all brass frame?
 
I had a Remington brass frame pistol and found no problem with the frame after a couple of hundreds shots...with the intricate/slow loading process, it is realy not a firearm that you shoot high volume of balls...you get to appreciate slow shooting as there are no speed loaders for these pistol...(except for an extra loaded barrel ready to replace the empty one).
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J
 
It is my understanding that the problem with brass frames is not so much stretching, it is battering. Every time the revolver is fired, the cylinder slams back against the collar in the breechface of a Colt pattern revolver. In time the breech ring becomes distorted. I have observed this in a used .44 steel framed 1860 repro.
Whether this is a problem in Remington types, I do not know.
 
thanks for the opinions. I think that I will be buying a new 44 cal steel Pietta from Marstar next week. Now to figure out which model I should buy
 
Go for the steel REM. then you can also buy a cartridge converter and shoot 45 colt kill two birds with one stone altho the cartridge converters are almost the price of a gun
 
Marstar shows a lot of different nice looking revolvers BUT do they have more than just the most expensive one in stock? Would be a great place to shop if they actually stocked everything that they list on the site...

My preference are the steel frame Remingtons and first pick would be stainless.
 
45 Colt cart. convertor?

DEZ said:
Go for the steel REM. then you can also buy a cartridge converter and shoot 45 colt kill two birds with one stone altho the cartridge converters are almost the price of a gun
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This sounds interesting! So who sells the convertors? Are they universal eg. the same convertor for all makes (uberti, pietta,...) of 1858 Remington replicas?
And finally is there a convertor available for the Ruger 44 Old Army?

Cheers. Steve.
 
i honestly question the value of the converter- 1) they're at least the cost of a used and or possibly a new cartridge gun, depending on the deal you get- 2, you still have to load the cylinder first, and then pop it in the gun as there is NO LOADING GATe in your frame- 3) in their literature it says you are limited to LIGHTER HAND LOADS- i've had a b/p since 74 (1858 remmy) and after i looked through it all, even with the dollar at par, i went and got a new blackhawk instead-
 
stevejones said:
This sounds interesting! So who sells the convertors? Are they universal eg. the same convertor for all makes (uberti, pietta,...) of 1858 Remington replicas?
And finally is there a convertor available for the Ruger 44 Old Army?

Cheers. Steve.
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yes there is- it's one of the more popular conversions- usually it's down somewhere about the number 3 option-
 
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