safety pins on Colt percussion guns
hello All you sellers of Colts percussion new and used original and repro... my suggestion when selling these guns would be to mention, if not take pictures of the safety pins located on the rear of the cylinder between the nipples. It is an area most always overlooked by sellers and buyers alike. I like to know what condition they are in as this will tell of heavy use or abuse. sometimes under fouling conditions the cylinder will not advance completely and the shooter will let fall the hammer..hammer striking the safety pin. when this happens too much the safety pins become smashed. also, this is very important... many Italian reproduction gun makers do not even install the safety pins on some of their reproduction guns as this is just another manufacturing step and it saves them money. However I have seen around some 1860 Colts Army models with fluted cylinders that have no safety pins installed on the cylinder. these guns could be spurious examples of a reproduction fluted cylinder being fitted to an actual 1860 Army. this would raise the price of the gun quite a bit, and the ususpecting buyer may not catch the error. showing the safety pins in a description and providing a pic or two would go along way to declairing a guns condition..what say you?
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The cylinder lock bolt portion of the trigger and cylinder lock bolt combination spring on Colt percussions and SAA revolvers break unpredictably, causing cylinder overshoot. It will allow the hammer to fall somewhere between chambers sometimes mashing these pins.
I don't know that it's a measure of heavy use or abuse but rather a measure of poorly designed flat spring.
A good machinist can replace these pins.0
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