Cheap Black Powder Revolvers

how to folks BC here you're watching Dulce guns and today we're going to talk about how cheaply you can get started with black-powder revolvers first of all we have a new package I got a new package from Cabela's because they're having a sale right now this is the as of taping right now is the last week of September 2016 and Cabela's having a really good sale on many of their black-powder revolvers so I got this in the mail recently and I'm going to open in front of you guys and we're going to take a look and see what's inside here for a short barrel is still pretty heavy got some gravity to it inside the bag is all greasy of course because you don't want this thing to rust up while it's in transit okay we have the tag and all it has a just serial number on it come on there we go let's compare that with my eight inch this is a nineteen or a nineteen 1851 colt versus the 1860 Colt so octagonal barrel but and it's got a brass frame on it too because I wanted to go super cheap with this Cabela's right now has this along with the eight inch barrel also options for 150 dollars 150 not bad and here's a close-up of the revolver and we have it's nicely blued everything seems to work the trigger is actually what surprisingly light the trigger is actually surprisingly light of course all it is is just releasing that hammer so it should be light it's not rotating anything it's not doing anything but just letting go the hammer and the brass is nice and shiny of course that will not last very long because the second I shoot it it will start dulling up and tarnish up and I will not be cleaning now will not be polishing it just keeping it normally clean here's the loading lever there to force in the lead ball of course that's the 1851 version of course is the sheriff's model as well so you have the five inch barrel versus the eight inch or 12 inch buffalo of course are tagging all barrel because it is the 18:51 model the trigger and a hammer load case-hardened everything else actually no the the loading lever there is also case hardened steel everything else is normal steel and blue let's take out that barrel wedge there which is really tight I try to take it out usually you can get it with your thumb I kind of get that with my thumb so I'm going to use the little nipple there on the end of the nipple wrench that's where that just screws out there for the cleaning of the nipples but you can also use it on luma because it will not hurt the steel at all and I can get that back in there and you can use that to hammer out the wedge without any worry of causing any there we go see you and I just rub it right off this is aluminum coming off very which comes out OH usually not come out all the way come on baby oh that's on there there we go again this is brand new so this thing has not been apart since the factory and that barrel is really clean everything is really clean on it you can see there is no debris inside sometimes there are some debris inside from the machining process but in this case nope nice and clean I will run a bore bus through there just to make sure that there is no little filings in here I'm not seen and you get the oil out of it before our first fire go back to automatic focus take off the cylinder there and again very very clean let's see if I can get a good shot of that it pulls in a very in there and I will clean those up too before I actually shoot this and then we have the rest of the frame nice handle it fits pretty well for the most part there's a little high edges you can kind of feel some of the high edges there of the wood coming up over the brass though with not exact perfect fit but close enough close enough for especially $150 revolver all right I want to put the sucker back together and we're going to go to the range after it cleaning of course all right tight that will work the barrel wide back in there West suckers tight okay now I know you're not supposed to handle these in because I just adds extra stress but that Paul is not actually getting over the lip right there which I need that to do so I'm going to hammer it just a little bit if you have an issue with that you can comment below not a big deal there we go now the perfect good deal go and a ball - they're good nice little ring now you see the balls there there we go you can see the balls here Chris go because we're going old school and it's just delicious really now once you start capping oh you some of these CCI primers taps whatever going to call them when start capping me ranges hot now you should never put your fingers or anything in front of the cylinder because then you have a live round alright caps going on my hands are so slippery I can't hold on to it the grip is actually the handle is actually smaller than normal this can't get a good grip on it then help on targets move it around on there in the wind oh Jesus well that was successful little run there there we go had a piece of a cap stuck in the mechanism oh there you go check this out okay here's one of the problems with black-powder revolvers go ahead and zoom in on that here that's a cap that's a cap stuck up against the hammer see right there there we go well we know she functions I'm certain losing my light and I got some other things to do so I think I'll call it a day on black powder see you back in the bunker observations now keep in mind I only put 12 shots through this because I was losing the light and some other projects had to get to at the range so only put 12 rounds for this sucker and I had I had a few issues with it not many number one was the first the first six shots I did have some issues with some of the camps not firing the char to powder charge that was mostly my fault because I fail to remember to clean out the inside of the of the nipples before I actually fired it normally you would take take the end of your actual nipple wrench and there's a little wire there that screws out and you would take that inside the actual nipple and just clean it out and make sure there's a free passage for the spark to shoot through now normally that's not an issue but I was trying to use up some of my old CCI caps and they are a little bit weaker than the Remington caps it seems like so then have the umph to really push through and ignite the charge anyway once I switch to every once I shot all six with the CCI caps and kind of cleaned it out and changed over to Remington Ram like a Chow the second issue I had with the sheriff's mobile pietà is accuracy now some of us with my fault some of its fact I'm just not used to the firearm but these groups are not that good at 10 yards even for black-powder revolvers and one of the issues I had was my greasy hands of course from loading which is to be expected from black-powder firearms but along with that the greasy hands plus the fact that these sheriffs model the 1851 sheriff's moment has a smaller grip than what I'm used to because I'm used to the 8-inch 1860 and the 12-inch Buffalo they have much larger grips than the actual sheriffs model 1851 as you can see right there there's a close-up you can see that the grip is actually quite a bit bigger on the 1860 versus 1851 sheriffs model for really good accuracy the best idea is to actually choke up all your grip a single a single-handed grip choked up on the grip basically where your hand is almost underneath the hammer and that will give you a pretty good hold on this much better than two hands because it's just not there's not enough grip there for a good two-handed hold it's just not there and the third issue I had was the tiny very very short loading lever now as you can see just a comparison side-by-side the loading lever on the Sherriff's model versus the loading lever on the 8-inch 1860 model it's at least twice as long giving you twice the leverage to really ram that round that ball into the cylinder now if you got a tight cylinder or a slightly oversized ball which they should be slightly oversized it should not be easy to do then you're going to have a time getting that sucker to actually seat in there so if your first time black-powder revolver buyer and you really want something on the cheap I would go with the brass frame 8-inch model of the 1851 pietà now what I'd really recommend is the this baby right here the eight inch barrel 1860 model with the steel frame you can use full power charges on this and not worry about the frame and get the very very accurate and very long life revolver here but if you're pinching pennies and you want to get that $150 special from Cabela's get the eight inch model Colt pietà 1851 with the brass frame that will get you out on a range shooting quicker and cheaper and the eight inch barrel will give you a little more gravity and a little bit bigger handle and you'll just have a better time shooting all around now this is just part one in a very long-term testing series that I'm going to do on this particular firearm itself so I bought this at Cabela's for 150 bucks is the cheapest pietà black-powder revolver you can get is probably the Chiefs of black-powder revolver you can get anywhere so I'm going to go ahead and test this out I'm going to take it to its limits and beyond and I want to bring guys along of course so if you're interested in that go and hit the subscribe button at the end of this video and of course if you have any comments questions or show ideas leave those in comm box below the video and as always you guys have a great day see ya you

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Length: 12min 38sec (758 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 03 2016