My New ROGERS & SPENCER 44 Percussion revolver

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Heres something Diffrent :D My Comeing soon Rogers & Spencer Custom Target percusion gun.
Its and Orignal R&S not a Repo.
Its a Perscribed Antique.
I could easy turn it back to Orignal by putting orignal grips and the longer 7.5 in Barrel.
BUT i like it as it is, the target sights are an big improvement and target custom grips aint cheep + a Modern Adaptor Cartridge Cylinder will fit the gun and i can shoot 45 scofields as well as 44 percussion haveing two cylinders.
The adaptor Cylinders aint cheep tho so i will play with Percussion for awhile frist.

Ive got close up pics and the thing is like near Mint condition!
The price was right to! :D
Just when ya think you have seen everything!

Not a great pic but you can get the idea!
 
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Killer Kanuck said:
Didn't Hellboy have one of them? :D
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LOL No hellboy had a top break revolver that was designed on the old Webley MK series Revolver only BIGGER

I know its kinda diffrent but hey i bet its a decent shooter the bores Mint.

Besides it will be very easy to bring back to the way Rogers and spencer designed it, if i want.
The frame under them grips is Un Touched.
Anyway if im gona try Percussion revolver shooting i figgered a R&S is about the best made.
 
It's kind of "retro futuristic" - it's what people in the 30's thought people in the 60's would be using. I like it though. Definitely unique.
 
david doyle said:
I have been waiting for a Serenity thread!
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LOL Me to the Movie was EX

One of the Chicks on there had a Lever action pistol I thought it was very interesting.
Like A winchester cut down to maby 3 rds or 4 if it were a 44 mag or some short Cartridge.
There is a Real Antique Lever action Pistol the Volcanic.
but ammo would be a serious problem to find or make for it.
 
Winchester made some prototype lever action pistols, so did Marlin. They are rare and very expensive now. I don't see why one of the repo outfits like Uberti couldn't make one on their 73 Winchester action.

I had an original Rogers and Spencer revolver also. They are about the best of the cap and ball revolvers. They are very strong and known for their accuracy. I'll bet yours with the target sights will be a shooter.
The Rogers and Spencer revolvers were ordered by the US army during the civil war. By the time they were delivered and passed inspection in 1865 the war had ended. They never saw action. The US army kept them in storage until it deemed them obsolete in 1901 though they were never issued. They sold them off to Bannermans for something like $0.95/lb. So they hit the market in 1901 as new revolvers when nobody was interested in a cap and ball revolver anymore. So most Rogers and Spencers you see now are in great shape. There were 5000 ordered by the US army and the company made about 500 others for commercial use. That is all that were ever made in originals.
They are similar to an 1858 Remington with the heavy topstrap and frame mounted sights. They are a very heavy, strong and durable revolver known for taking heavy loads and shooting well.
I had an original in VG condition and it shot exactly to point of aim at 30 yards with 35 grains of FFFG Triple Seven and a round ball. It would keep them all touching at that range.
That is an excellent old revolver you have there, about as good as it gets for shooter originals in cap and ball. It's not lacking for power either.
 
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