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The Darksider's Den / Re: How did we get these "Calibers"?
« Last post by Mako on May 07, 2024, 10:23:52 AM »Mine was made by putting a Navy grip on a "1860 Type II" as Uberti calls it, in .38. Their 1860 conversions in .38, both R-M and Type II, come with the Navy frame/cylinder. Since the Type II '60 barrel is the same shape as a '61, it is easy to turn it into a '61 Type II with the Navy grip.
Abilene,
Okay, you might know this since you had the affiliation with Cimarron. I tried to physically see some, but every time I was in Fredericksburg they never had the Type IIs in .38 for me to compare.
- Are the .38 spl Type IIs the same frame and cylinder (diameter) size as the .44 and .45 Uberti Type IIs?
- I know the '51 Richards-Mason conversions are "correctly sized".
- I want to put a '60 barrel on a correctly sized .38 frame already set up for cartridges and just open up the chambers to .44 Russian/Colt.
- I would prefer to have the frame already having Army grips because I found it is almost impossible to get "replacement" Grips, Back straps and Trigger Guards in the Army grip size
- I actually want a Franken-Gun of sorts, however it would be more correct than the oversized Richards Type IIs I have now. If I actually had my druthers I would take a '61 barrel and have it rebored and rifled for Ø.428 bullets and shoot internally lubed bullets.
- I don't like the way the Uberti Type IIs in .44 caliber sit in my hands, the hammer spur is off (too high) and something just seems off about them. I can close my eyes and if you hand me a '60 grip first and the Type II grip first I can tell in an instant the difference. I would love to have a pair as much for practice as for using them as my wet weather guns as I do now.
- I have thought about getting two sets of revolvers, a pair of '60s and a pair of any flavor '51 cartridge conversion and swapping out the barrels and rechambering the .38 cylinder to .44, but by that time I might as well just get a conversion back plate and convert a pair of '60s.
- I was thinking pretty hard about it about 15 years ago until life sidetracked me...
You're a bad man making me want pretty things...
~Mako