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Colt Army Revolver 1860
Equipment and shooting from a replica Colt Army in 1860 from the company Uberti
Colt Army revolver capsule sample in 1860 is the culmination of the evolution of hand-held firearms to the cartridge era. With a powerful .44-caliber m, like his predecessors, and Walker Dragoon, he had an elegant design, will significantly reduce the weight of the weapon without losing its combat performance in parallel to improve the balance of weapons and ease of retention.
Will be 29 photos.
Improvements of the model Colt reduced as to the relief of weapons by replacing the octagonal barrel on the round, streamlined circuit, replacing the massive cylindrical drum, a drum of variable section (it was narrowed in the area of capsule chambers, and narrowed as the outer diameter, with a corresponding step in frame and inside Camore) and functional improvements - such a mechanism was under-barrel press lever-pinion design, instead of a simple lever, etc.
Streamlined circuit without protruding sharp edges, allowing you to quickly snatching the gun and bring it into readiness.
In addition, the model had an optional clip-Armey butt, turned his gun in a compact carbine
Not surprisingly, this gun still has a lot of fans around the world, but the number of original historical Colts limited, the price for them is only up, and actively shoot from such a rarity sorry, and I want ...
For over half a century different companies produce replicas of historical revolvers, different levels of quality, finish and closer to the original - for practicing sports and recreational shooting. More than anyone in this business succeed Italians - and the practice of the treatment of capsule gun, we will consider the example of one of the best replica Colt Army from the company Uberti.
For orientation in the world of replicas, bring a table: the labeling of the Italian's release
and samples of certification and stamps otstrelochnyh Italy, Germany and Spain
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This gun has a stamp XX7 - which corresponds to 1971, on the revolver engraved stamp acceptance Gardone.
A replica of itself, is quite close to the original in design, the only significant difference, except for exterior finishing is cutting 8-inch barrel - it is progressive from the original, while the replica - a constant 7 rifling.
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Exterior finish is made by Uberti very high quality, combining polished, burnished elements (barrel drum), and the so-called rainbow Kalka (frame, press the stem),
At the top of the stem is marked «ORIGINAL HEGE-UBERTI», which indicates the general importer in Germany - the company «HEGE».
Drum also engraved scenes of sea battle, the handle nut, lower part of the frame with a restrictive brace - brass.
On the surface of the drum has a text «ENGAGED 16 MAY 1848» and «PATENT №»
On the left side of the gun just is marked.
The serial number of the gun caused the bottom of the frame (at the request of the author's last two digits of the number are shaded).
Loading and firing a revolver Colt 1860 Army (Colt Army 1860)
The charging Colt Army 1860 includes several stages, some of which can be considered optional, but I will describe them all here, and more - let everyone decide for themselves what is necessary and what is not. Here's everything you need.
1. The gun is placed on poluvzvod, located up the barrel and the bolt is filled weighed powder of powder flasks with a metering valve, or from pre-tubes.
Black powder is necessary to take grain from 0, 3 and 0, 8 mm - this corresponds to the international classification of FFF, for example, suitable varieties like "Swiss Nr.2», WANO FFFg, Explosia Jagd V, Vectan PNF2 etc.
Standard linkage of the powder for the gun is 25 Gren (1, 6 grams), but there are possible variations, both up and down - from 15 to 35 Gren. There are also synthetic substitutes for black powder, for example, or Pyrodex TripleSeven from Hodgdon, they produce less soot, but are more expensive and require a different approach to the sample weights than the classic black powder.
2. On top of the powder, sits cylindrical felt wad, which is pressed down into the under-barrel press.
3. To make stops bullets with press fit into the chambers.
Bullets used round lead with a diameter slightly larger caliber barrel, in this case, .44 caliber revolver can equip bullets .45 caliber (.454 .452-, at least - .445). The bullet should sit with an effort and shot crashing into the rifling of the barrel. It is also possible to use conical or cylinder-conical bullet, but for this, the standard cut-out before the drum is too small - the drum should be removed and charged separately, which is not very convenient. I have tried in this way to equip lead roundnose bullets weighing 230 Gren from under the gun .45ACP - but serious advantages against the round of bullets were found.
4. zapresovannuyu bullet applied grease / osalka flush with the end of the drum. Historically, it was used for the lard, sometimes with wax. Today's recipe is very wide, there are ready-made lubricants and the most advanced hands, apply a mixture of candle wax and palm margarine.
In fact, the actual shooting - paragraphs 2 and 4 are not necessary, these measures are used for two purposes - to protect the powder charge from moisture and dirt during wear and to prevent the detonation of 6 charges at the same time, the breakout of fire. In addition, osalka lubricates the bit the bullet and reduce the deposition of soot on the parts of the gun. Influence wads / osalki the accuracy and power of the gun - it is already the subject of disputes of a religious nature.
5. When the drum is full, you can put caps on the pin - the perfect size capsules for percussion revolvers such as Colt Army 1860 - is CCI Nr.10 or its analogs. Blasting more common types of CCI Nr.11 or RWS 1075 sit a little loose, you can use them, but we must make sure that they are not dumped or wedged drum (some direction, recommend lightly flatten capsule before landing).
6. In fully loaded revolver, trigger vzoditsya completely - then the weapon is ready to fire.
According to safety regulations, gunpowder, blasting caps and other explosive materials shall not be located in the zone of fire. We fully cocked revolver trigger must exactly match with a cut in the drum, otherwise the shot will not happen. At the same time, and only on the cocked revolver shooter sees the sights, cut on top of the hammer.
During shooting, you need to make sure that the pieces are not triggered caps wedged drum, if it happened - the trigger is placed on the drum is rotated and poluvzvod hand with the removal of remnants of the capsule.
In this video segment captured a shot of Colt Army sample 1860. During the shooting of 25 meters in a moderately fast pace, the revolver gave some variation vertical general satisfactory accuracy of fire - three bullets came in the "top ten". Overall, this is a revolver respect their delicate technical perfection and great pleasure from shooting.
The author of the article and photos Zav.hoz (nick at the Hanse) or Pistolero_Z (nick LJ), who lives in Germany and possesses a weapon legally. The revolver was bought by the author in early 2012, at an arms auction eGun (weapons analogue eBay.com) in perfect, almost able Shooting for around 140 Euro.
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Colt Army revolver capsule sample in 1860 is the culmination of the evolution of hand-held firearms to the cartridge era. With a powerful .44-caliber m, like his predecessors, and Walker Dragoon, he had an elegant design, will significantly reduce the weight of the weapon without losing its combat performance in parallel to improve the balance of weapons and ease of retention.
Will be 29 photos.
Improvements of the model Colt reduced as to the relief of weapons by replacing the octagonal barrel on the round, streamlined circuit, replacing the massive cylindrical drum, a drum of variable section (it was narrowed in the area of capsule chambers, and narrowed as the outer diameter, with a corresponding step in frame and inside Camore) and functional improvements - such a mechanism was under-barrel press lever-pinion design, instead of a simple lever, etc.
Streamlined circuit without protruding sharp edges, allowing you to quickly snatching the gun and bring it into readiness.
In addition, the model had an optional clip-Armey butt, turned his gun in a compact carbine
Not surprisingly, this gun still has a lot of fans around the world, but the number of original historical Colts limited, the price for them is only up, and actively shoot from such a rarity sorry, and I want ...
For over half a century different companies produce replicas of historical revolvers, different levels of quality, finish and closer to the original - for practicing sports and recreational shooting. More than anyone in this business succeed Italians - and the practice of the treatment of capsule gun, we will consider the example of one of the best replica Colt Army from the company Uberti.
For orientation in the world of replicas, bring a table: the labeling of the Italian's release
and samples of certification and stamps otstrelochnyh Italy, Germany and Spain
09
This gun has a stamp XX7 - which corresponds to 1971, on the revolver engraved stamp acceptance Gardone.
A replica of itself, is quite close to the original in design, the only significant difference, except for exterior finishing is cutting 8-inch barrel - it is progressive from the original, while the replica - a constant 7 rifling.
12
Exterior finish is made by Uberti very high quality, combining polished, burnished elements (barrel drum), and the so-called rainbow Kalka (frame, press the stem),
At the top of the stem is marked «ORIGINAL HEGE-UBERTI», which indicates the general importer in Germany - the company «HEGE».
Drum also engraved scenes of sea battle, the handle nut, lower part of the frame with a restrictive brace - brass.
On the surface of the drum has a text «ENGAGED 16 MAY 1848» and «PATENT №»
On the left side of the gun just is marked.
The serial number of the gun caused the bottom of the frame (at the request of the author's last two digits of the number are shaded).
Loading and firing a revolver Colt 1860 Army (Colt Army 1860)
The charging Colt Army 1860 includes several stages, some of which can be considered optional, but I will describe them all here, and more - let everyone decide for themselves what is necessary and what is not. Here's everything you need.
1. The gun is placed on poluvzvod, located up the barrel and the bolt is filled weighed powder of powder flasks with a metering valve, or from pre-tubes.
Black powder is necessary to take grain from 0, 3 and 0, 8 mm - this corresponds to the international classification of FFF, for example, suitable varieties like "Swiss Nr.2», WANO FFFg, Explosia Jagd V, Vectan PNF2 etc.
Standard linkage of the powder for the gun is 25 Gren (1, 6 grams), but there are possible variations, both up and down - from 15 to 35 Gren. There are also synthetic substitutes for black powder, for example, or Pyrodex TripleSeven from Hodgdon, they produce less soot, but are more expensive and require a different approach to the sample weights than the classic black powder.
2. On top of the powder, sits cylindrical felt wad, which is pressed down into the under-barrel press.
3. To make stops bullets with press fit into the chambers.
Bullets used round lead with a diameter slightly larger caliber barrel, in this case, .44 caliber revolver can equip bullets .45 caliber (.454 .452-, at least - .445). The bullet should sit with an effort and shot crashing into the rifling of the barrel. It is also possible to use conical or cylinder-conical bullet, but for this, the standard cut-out before the drum is too small - the drum should be removed and charged separately, which is not very convenient. I have tried in this way to equip lead roundnose bullets weighing 230 Gren from under the gun .45ACP - but serious advantages against the round of bullets were found.
4. zapresovannuyu bullet applied grease / osalka flush with the end of the drum. Historically, it was used for the lard, sometimes with wax. Today's recipe is very wide, there are ready-made lubricants and the most advanced hands, apply a mixture of candle wax and palm margarine.
In fact, the actual shooting - paragraphs 2 and 4 are not necessary, these measures are used for two purposes - to protect the powder charge from moisture and dirt during wear and to prevent the detonation of 6 charges at the same time, the breakout of fire. In addition, osalka lubricates the bit the bullet and reduce the deposition of soot on the parts of the gun. Influence wads / osalki the accuracy and power of the gun - it is already the subject of disputes of a religious nature.
5. When the drum is full, you can put caps on the pin - the perfect size capsules for percussion revolvers such as Colt Army 1860 - is CCI Nr.10 or its analogs. Blasting more common types of CCI Nr.11 or RWS 1075 sit a little loose, you can use them, but we must make sure that they are not dumped or wedged drum (some direction, recommend lightly flatten capsule before landing).
6. In fully loaded revolver, trigger vzoditsya completely - then the weapon is ready to fire.
According to safety regulations, gunpowder, blasting caps and other explosive materials shall not be located in the zone of fire. We fully cocked revolver trigger must exactly match with a cut in the drum, otherwise the shot will not happen. At the same time, and only on the cocked revolver shooter sees the sights, cut on top of the hammer.
During shooting, you need to make sure that the pieces are not triggered caps wedged drum, if it happened - the trigger is placed on the drum is rotated and poluvzvod hand with the removal of remnants of the capsule.
In this video segment captured a shot of Colt Army sample 1860. During the shooting of 25 meters in a moderately fast pace, the revolver gave some variation vertical general satisfactory accuracy of fire - three bullets came in the "top ten". Overall, this is a revolver respect their delicate technical perfection and great pleasure from shooting.
The author of the article and photos Zav.hoz (nick at the Hanse) or Pistolero_Z (nick LJ), who lives in Germany and possesses a weapon legally. The revolver was bought by the author in early 2012, at an arms auction eGun (weapons analogue eBay.com) in perfect, almost able Shooting for around 140 Euro.
All. Then steal
Source:
