Safari Arms
- Thread starter Bowie
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- Prince George, BC
Pretty damn good Id say. There is not as many of them around though. not much info either. but check out the thread on em and you can see for yourself. If youd like so close up pics or anything like that Id be happy to git them for you.
Very tight fit and finish to them. much much more so then the lymans.
Kyle.
Very tight fit and finish to them. much much more so then the lymans.
Kyle.
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Most non custom reproduction guns are made in Italy by a few companies and have various names stamped on them for the North American importer. They differ from T/C in that the lock parts are made of mild steel then case hardened and if the casing wears through, the parts wear quickly. That is a mixed blessing because they also can be refiled to shape, often (sears and tumblers) and then recased. I would expect parts to be interchangeable between most of them and with T/C
T/C appears to use cast air hardening steel and there appears to be no way of annealing a sear or a tumbler to repair it; it has to be replaced; the parts are less subject ot wear but more difficult to fix in a hurry if a sear or a tumbler notch breaks.
I think most of the Italian guns have accurate barrels even though I would rather they be a 1:68 twist for round ball and the woodwork probably varies from gun to gun and you need to decide on the basis of your own standards vs the price you can afford to pay. Remember a custom gun probably starts at twice the price second hand and goes up from there
my first flintlock was a Safari Arms curiously enough.
cheers mooncoon
T/C appears to use cast air hardening steel and there appears to be no way of annealing a sear or a tumbler to repair it; it has to be replaced; the parts are less subject ot wear but more difficult to fix in a hurry if a sear or a tumbler notch breaks.
I think most of the Italian guns have accurate barrels even though I would rather they be a 1:68 twist for round ball and the woodwork probably varies from gun to gun and you need to decide on the basis of your own standards vs the price you can afford to pay. Remember a custom gun probably starts at twice the price second hand and goes up from there
my first flintlock was a Safari Arms curiously enough.
cheers mooncoon
My first BP guns were a Safari arms .44 Army revolver kit with a brass frame and a CVA .50 inline rifle kit. Sure was a good way for a kid to learn about BP guns and guns in general. The Safari revolver was much farther from finished out of the box than the CVA. It took a long time and a lot of work to get that revolver shooting. It was some ugly too, I wasn't so patient in those days. I wish I had kept in now. I remember a lot of rough tooling marks on the Safari and not on the CVA. I can't say anything for the accuracy of that pistol, it made fire and that was all I cared about then.
I was impressed with chopperheads Safari Arms.The flint sparked every time, fit and finish are excellent, the balance is somewhere between a T/C and Lyman.We had to knap a perfectly good flint after ~ 30 shots, we couldn't wait any longer to show to do a demo on knapping.
As you can see the locktime is as fast as you can expect, all I did was cone the vent liner and drill it out to .067", (poor mans white lightning)
Cheers nessy.
As you can see the locktime is as fast as you can expect, all I did was cone the vent liner and drill it out to .067", (poor mans white lightning)
Cheers nessy.
