Hi,
My buddy is getting into this game and wanted another NMA so he went to Cabelas and came home with a new Pietta. All I can say is WOW!!!. I've been at this for about 20 years and have never seen an out of the box gun run so well, made by anyone. Timing, indexing, lockup and trigger pull are perfect, he will never get a cylinder stripe unless he is careless, fit and finish are excellant. Real pretty wood, a little on the fat side but for large hands it's kind of nice, he got an extra cylinder and that one worked perfect as well. I took it apart to clean out the oil and lube it properly, even the innards were finished well. And, it was only $190.00, my 1990 Navy arms was about 125.00 and nowhere as nice.
I know you can get a problem gun from any of these manufacturers but looking at this one, I think the chances are alot less these days then it was in the past.
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