Dance Revolver

[Legion Para]

 

[Legion Para]

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[sourdough]

Very good info.

As has been stated by me previously, I collect Italian (Pietta) replicas.

Pietta makes a Dance .44 based on a lowered Navy .36 frame and a smooth non-rebated cylinder that is larger in diameter than the .36 cylinder, which makes it not historically accurate, nor parts interchangeable among other Pietta 1851 Navy pistols. I have been urging Pietta (via emails) to make a Dance .36 on a 1851 Navy frame for a couple of years. All Piettas these days are CNC machined, and it would be very simple to mill off the recoils shields before doing the case colors and using the part octagon/part round barrel from their G&G .36, instead of all of the changes they had to do in producing the Dance .44.

I guess it all fell on deaf ears.

Pardon my rambling.

Jim

 

[Cpl. Smith]

Very good info.

As has been stated by me previously, I collect Italian (Pietta) replicas.

Pietta makes a Dance .44 based on a lowered Navy .36 frame and a smooth non-rebated cylinder that is larger in diameter than the .36 cylinder, which makes it not historically accurate, nor parts interchangeable among other Pietta 1851 Navy pistols. I have been urging Pietta (via emails) to make a Dance .36 on a 1851 Navy frame for a couple of years. All Piettas these days are CNC machined, and it would be very simple to mill off the recoils shields before doing the case colors and using the part octagon/part round barrel from their G&G .36, instead of all of the changes they had to do in producing the Dance .44.

I guess it all fell on deaf ears.

Pardon my rambling.

Jim

I don't understand the brass framed "confederate" revolvers either. They just make what they want. As you said for the dance, they could just mill off the recoil shields on a navy.

Why did dance mill off the shields anyway?

 

[sourdough]

Watch the video.

 

[Cpl. Smith]

Watch the video.

I know that he said it was di to the steel was too thin to add the shields but, I just think there is more to it than that. Mainly because there were some that had them and they cut them off.

 

[Larryh86GT]

Nice video.

 

[Patrick H]

Thank you. I like learning about these old revolvers.

 

[UCVRelics]

The Dance is one of my favorites.

 

[sourdough]

I know that he said it was di to the steel was too thin to add the shields but, I just think there is more to it than that. Mainly because there were some that had them and they cut them off.

I think the lack of steel/iron billets of sufficient size had a huge impact upon the manufacture of Confederate Dance pistols.

If you look at original Griswold and Gunnison pistols, there are twist lines on the cylinders due to the fact that the cylinders were made of heated twisted iron as opposed to steel. In addition to the frames made of brass, it shows the lack of material available to them as opposed to the materials available to the Northern (Union) gun industries.

There must have been an industrial reason for Dance to have not used recoil shields. Just my $.02 worth.

Jim