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Post by tek4260 on Aug 15, 2012 21:56:36 GMT -5
www.emf-company.com/store/pc/STANDARD-CASEHARDENING-CKRD-WALNUT-GRIPS-1860-ARMY-294p1383.htmAnyone have any experience with these? Looks like it would be just the cure for the "too short" grip frame of the SAA. Here is the description from EMF Alessandro Pietta, SASS Life #41531 took a page out of history books and reintroduced the 1873, paired with the 1860 Army grip frame. He added a competition trigger that is wider and set back, allowing for a larger finger in the trigger guard.
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Post by subsonic on Aug 15, 2012 22:21:43 GMT -5
I was wondering if anybody else had seen them.
EMF sent me some stuff the other day.....
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Post by dlhredfoxx on Aug 15, 2012 22:37:02 GMT -5
I like it tek4260... beautiful SA revolver. Don't know anything about 'em, cept they sure are purdy!
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Post by tek4260 on Aug 15, 2012 23:19:45 GMT -5
The grip frame reminds me of a FA or maybe a Huntington extension.
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Post by hammerdown77 on Aug 16, 2012 7:33:05 GMT -5
There's a fellow over on Rugerforum who has one for sale in 44-40 www.rugerforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=157175Here's Mike Beliveau's review of one in 45 Colt youtu.be/9KZzPyh8T2gI have an 1860 Army (which has this grip) and it is indeed very Freedom Arms like. Maybe with thicker grips it would be closer. If you have big/wide hands, you will have no problems getting all your fingers on this grip. No pinky under hold on this gun. |
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Post by whitworth on Aug 16, 2012 10:01:48 GMT -5
It's a nice looking piece. I too would be curious as to their quality.
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Post by hammerdown77 on Aug 16, 2012 10:11:37 GMT -5
Word amongst the CAS guys is that the Pietta guns sold by EMF are possibly the best repros out there. The actions are slick and ready to go out of the box.
Biggest problem I've had with Italian repros is the occasional insufficiently hardened internal part.
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Post by warhawk on Aug 16, 2012 13:17:38 GMT -5
I've got a nickel EMF "Hartford Model" made by Armi San Marcos. Got this thing in a trade and know very little about it, this one came with two more sets of grips in the box, 2 pc faux ivory and a once piece fancy wood grip that needs to be refinished. Are these ASM guns any good?  |
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Post by hammerdown77 on Aug 16, 2012 13:52:12 GMT -5
ASM was hit or miss, from what I've read and been told. They have been out of business for a while. Pietta was a little dodgy at first, but evidently they've really upped their game because the specimens I've examined recently have been pretty good.
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Post by bobwright on Aug 16, 2012 15:24:33 GMT -5
As a matter of interest, about 1975 I bought a Uberti Cattleman .44 Magnum, then imported by Iver Johnson. The .44 Magnum had a frame about the size of the Super Blackhawk, and the brass backstrap and trigger guard were similar to the Colt 1860 Army, with an indentation in the butt for attaching a butt stock.
Just out of curiousity I once swapped cylinders from my Super Blackhawk, and the switched cylinders fit and worked in the swapped guns. Didn't try firing, of course, just for fit.
Bob Wright
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