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OFFICIAL 1861 thread (post pictures here)
« on: November 17, 2012, 11:26:33 AM »
I have thought about doing this for a while.
Over on "The High Road" there are OFFICIAL threads for the different models so I am going to do the same thing here.
Many of us like to show off our pistols and this will give us a place to do so w/o "hijacking" our pards threads ;)

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Re: OFFICIAL 1861 thread (post pictures here)
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2012, 12:20:15 PM »
Here is my abbreviated model  ;)
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Re: OFFICIAL 1861 thread (post pictures here)
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2012, 04:38:38 PM »
Well, I'd post some pictures; but they've apparently changed Photobucket and I can't get anything to work on it. 
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Re: OFFICIAL 1861 thread (post pictures here)
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Re: OFFICIAL 1861 thread (post pictures here)
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2012, 08:22:38 PM »
Yep, Photobucket has really changed and I'm to lazy to read the directions.  Hope this works.  On the top is a Pietta with steel backstrap and trigger guard that I shortened to 6 inches.  On the bottom is a Colt.


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Re: OFFICIAL 1861 thread (post pictures here)
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2012, 10:45:32 PM »
Nice Larsen!

It's always great to see originals do you shoot this one?

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Re: OFFICIAL 1861 thread (post pictures here)
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2012, 08:59:42 AM »
Haven't shot this one.  Back in 1961 when the Civil War Centennial started we shot a lot of originals as there weren't that many reproductions around yet.

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Re: OFFICIAL 1861 thread (post pictures here)
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2012, 12:16:09 PM »
OK, Here are some of my '61s


Top pair - Ubertis
Middle pair - Piettas
Bottom pair - 2nd Gen Colt's
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Re: OFFICIAL 1861 thread (post pictures here)
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2012, 01:24:55 PM »
Nice Fingers!

I am on the lookout for a 2nd Gen Colt 1861 for a conversion project.
If anyone knows of a used one for sale, let me know!

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Re: OFFICIAL 1861 thread (post pictures here)
« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2012, 03:52:04 PM »
Picked this one up for $95. several years ago:

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Re: OFFICIAL 1861 thread (post pictures here)
« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2012, 06:00:02 PM »
Cool!

Looks like a Pietta with a "Legal Defender" ring and a cut off "sheriff" fluted cylinder.
Am I close?

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Re: OFFICIAL 1861 thread (post pictures here)
« Reply #10 on: November 21, 2012, 11:30:11 PM »
Cool!

Looks like a Pietta with a "Legal Defender" ring and a cut off "sheriff" fluted cylinder.
Am I close?

HH

It is a Pietta, and I'm pretty sure the cylinder has bee turned down at the crown, not sure of the ring, but it was a professional job of converting. Cylinder is chamber bored for .38 Spec., but the barrel is still .375, so I use home loaded BP rounds with 148 gr. hollow based wad-cutters. No problems.  ;)
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Re: OFFICIAL 1861 thread (post pictures here)
« Reply #11 on: November 23, 2012, 06:35:12 PM »
Here is an 1861 that I built for myself last year...........





It is a Pietta with all the bells and whistles!
R & D gated conversion, Kirst ejector (blended in), barrel lined to .357, checkered hammer, all Italian markings removed.


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Re: OFFICIAL 1861 thread (post pictures here)
« Reply #12 on: November 24, 2012, 02:05:39 PM »
H.H.,
That is a real "beauty".  You did a great job on it.  I guess the one you are doing for me we will have to call the "beast".

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Re: OFFICIAL 1861 thread (post pictures here)
« Reply #13 on: November 24, 2012, 06:23:59 PM »
H.H.,
That is a real "beauty".  You did a great job on it.  I guess the one you are doing for me we will have to call the "beast".

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Re: OFFICIAL 1861 thread (post pictures here)
« Reply #14 on: November 24, 2012, 10:35:22 PM »
I pick good, cheap, and slow!
Pictures will be coming.

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Re: OFFICIAL 1861 thread (post pictures here)
« Reply #15 on: November 28, 2012, 08:20:29 AM »
Here is a Kenny Howell built 1861. It came into my posession in a trade off the SASS wire a few years back and haad been used HARD and repaired buy someone with hams for hands.........I tightened up the arbor and made some other necessary repairs but have left it alone for it's unique "charm" ::)









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Re: OFFICIAL 1861 thread (post pictures here)
« Reply #16 on: November 28, 2012, 08:59:59 AM »
This pistol was a FREEBIE ;D
Of course it looked like a freebie also......I'm not sure the previous owner (who was a friend) had any idea that you need to clean a BP pistol after firing or they will rust!

I used a Kirst ring and the cut off fluted cylinder and then left the rammer off and filled the latch dovetail for the "gunsmith conversion" look.










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Re: OFFICIAL 1861 thread (post pictures here)
« Reply #17 on: November 28, 2012, 01:04:58 PM »
Here is a Kenny Howell built 1861. It came into my posession in a trade off the SASS wire a few years back and haad been used HARD and repaired buy someone with hams for hands.........I tightened up the arbor and made some other necessary repairs but have left it alone for it's unique "charm" ::)











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Re: OFFICIAL 1861 thread (post pictures here)
« Reply #18 on: December 02, 2012, 03:27:10 PM »
A couple of Cimarron's 1861's.  
This one was at Shot Show when I snapped a pic.  I think the grips are Tru-Ivory:


I've posted pics of this one a few years ago.  I happened to be at Cimarron when this one arrived from Uberti.  Besides being a beautiful pistol, the noteworthy thing about this is that it is a miniature!  With nothing else in the pics to give a frame of reference, you wouldn't know it!



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Re: OFFICIAL 1861 thread (post pictures here)
« Reply #19 on: January 02, 2013, 11:05:59 AM »
Here is my pair of 1861s.  Bought years ago to replace a pair of originals I had been using.  A collector wanted the originals more than I did so I used some of the money to by these Ubertis.



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