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I’ve long had a love of leverguns and six shooters, and picked up a unique six gun. A Pietta “Thunderer”; based on the frame of an 1873 SAA, it’s a “Fantasy” gun...it is not period correct in that it was never made at that time with Birds Head grip. Everything else on the gun is standard 1873 SAA.
While Pietta is not a really common maker over here, it becomes a bit more common when realizing that they build all Cimarron guns, many of Taylors, and some lesser known brands. It’s a bit of a shame they aren’t better known; what a Beautiful pistol! Case hardened steel Frame, and deep polish blued finish on the cylinder and barrel. The Birds head grips are Beautifully grained, appear to be European Walnut.
The action is just magnificent. I’ve shot Piettas before and they have always been really, really smooth. This feels like everything is on ball bearings, Incredibly smooth, 4-click hammer, and although the trigger was advertised at 4 1/2 pounds, this one breaks just past two pounds. 5 1/2 in barrel and notch and blade fixed sights, it should be a fairly accurate shooter, and I understand it’s very comfortable with everything from black powder loads (which it will never see) to full house .357 magnum rounds.
I’m looking forward to a range trip today to run some rounds through it. I have several different factory loads, a lot of reloads with a variety of different bullets, powders and charges. I had loaded several thousand rounds for my Rossi and my Marlin Dark in .357 that are hot rounds in a rifle and likely too much for a revolver, but I will take some milder ones along and see how it does.
I’ve been after a birds head for a while, unfortunately there aren’t a ton of them around with Canada Legal barrels, so I was really pleased to find this one NIB, and even on sale. A HECK of a good price on a finely made pistol
A photo here;
https://a-izquierdo.es/6850-thickbox_default/revolver-pietta-1873-sa-thunderer-cal-45-lc-4-3-4.jpg
 
I'm looking for a SAA 45 ,with the four click system.
But most of the newer models now have the transfer bar safety system.

How do you know which ones ,still have the older 4 click system?
 
Cimarron (made by Pietta) prides themselves on being historically correct in their replicas. From the start of their relationship with Pietta, the owner of Cimarron, who has a HUGE personal collection of antique firearms. When they introduce a new model, he has always taken the best example in his possession and sent it to Pietta to be copied down the the last detail. Transfer bars were VERY late on the scene, and anything built on the 1873 Colt frame design by Pietta and for Cimarron will be legit, 4 click systems. Cimarrons are considered to be top drawer, bespoke examples of late 1800s craftsmanship. I’ve seen, handled and shot a number of them, and they are beautiful guns. Every single example I’ve seen from Pietta has been identical to them except for the name. The proof marks are Pietta, everything...steel formulations wood grade for stocks, Everthing is IDENTICAL, just hundreds of dollars less. To my knowledge Cimarron doesn’t make anything with a transfer bar, and though Pietta does make a few, the vast majority of theirs are true, 4 click colt actions
 
Not sure but I heard all new imports must have transfer bars or something equivalent. The new Uberti's have them.
 
There must be some sort of grandfathering, or it’s yet to take effect, because this one is brand spanking new, fresh out of the distributors warehouse a week ago. Personally, I hate the damn things, especially on SAA’s. If they screw up, they’re miserable to get repaired. I’ve dicked around with one since last May, Finally got it back from the repair depot last month, and before it fired ONE lousy round, it broke again. And that was also a new gun....I’ve owned it for closing on a year, have had it in my possession less than two months of that, and it hasn’t fired a total of one, 50 round box of ammo through it. I’d HAPPILY sacrifice a round to carry on an empty cylinder with a hammer mounted firing pin than have a transfer bar.
They work okay in Rugers, S&W, even Taurus double actions but they SUCK in SA’s
 
The Pietta 1873 "peacemaker" I picked up from Marstar in spring of 2020 didn't come with a transfer bar. I think the one I have is a 2nd generation 1873
 
terBC said:
The Pietta 1873 "peacemaker" I picked up from Marstar in spring of 2020 didn't come with a transfer bar. I think the one I have is a 2nd generation 1873
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I bought mine new a few months ago and it has a transfer bar.
 
It wouldn’t surprise me. The internals wouldn’t be a lot different. I have both with transfer bar and now without...MUCH happier without
 
FranksPop said:
There must be some sort of grandfathering, or it’s yet to take effect, because this one is brand spanking new, fresh out of the distributors warehouse a week ago. Personally, I hate the damn things, especially on SAA’s. If they screw up, they’re miserable to get repaired. I’ve dicked around with one since last May, Finally got it back from the repair depot last month, and before it fired ONE lousy round, it broke again. And that was also a new gun....I’ve owned it for closing on a year, have had it in my possession less than two months of that, and it hasn’t fired a total of one, 50 round box of ammo through it. I’d HAPPILY sacrifice a round to carry on an empty cylinder with a hammer mounted firing pin than have a transfer bar.
They work okay in Rugers, S&W, even Taurus double actions but they SUCK in SA’s
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Personally I don't mind the transfer bar. After all, it is a six-gun:cool:
 
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