Well, after waiting over half a year my 24" Pedersoli Premium model Lightning in 44WCF turned up.....then another 2 months for the paperwork...
Anyway.....this is a fine rifle. Here's the review.
Cosmetics: Wood to metal fit very good in almost all areas. The checkering has had a little too much varnish applied over it but I'll strip this off later. Good blueing, colour casehardening and general metal finishing.
Build quality: Excellant. The internals are all well machined, no burs and the action is as smooth as can be. Trigger is around 4 lbs but can be lightened up. Sights are excellent.
Shooting: With a Lymans 210 grain pure lead .429" unsized bullet over 27.5 grains of Swiss 2FFg in a fireformed Starline case, this rifle printed a 5 shot group just over 1 MOA with 4 of the rounds in one cluster. It is VERY sensitive to bullet diameter. It grouped like a shotgun with .427 and .428" sized bullets and then suddenly started performing with .429". The barrel measures .4292 so no surprises there. Will be ordering a .430 mould for experimenting with but I'm not going to do much better than MOA with any mould. It feeds and ejects flawlessly. This is all I was hoping for from this gun and it has delivered.
cal44walker