A couple years ago, before the Pandemic, I did a Kirst Avenging Angel 1860. My best friend and long time SASS shooting pard talked me out of it, to go with his similar 3" 1860 with an R&D cylinder. I really missed it. With that said, I picked up another 1860 3" birds head from Taylors, and an 1860 Kirst Konverter and went to town.
This is a fantasy pistol, based on reality. In my mind, my two 1860s and the 1858 are period 5 shot, Long Cylinder Conversions in .46 Rimfire. They go perfectly with my HRA 1860 Henry .44-40 and Rossi Coach gun for a 1868/69 persona. The Winchester loading of the .46 rimfire was 27 grains of powder and a 230 grain bullet. It was basically a rimfire version of the later 1875 Schofield. The .46 RF was a fairly common caliber for private conversions as it was readily available for the factory converted Remington NMAs.
Started with this:
Went to this:
My current main match pair, the Saber River and the Avenging Angel:
All of my main match pistols are Kirsts: 1858 Pale Rider, 1851 .38 Colt, Avenging Angel, and Saber River,