That is the best video on that gun. The absolute truth is the hammer springs on original colts are way heavier than Italian reproduction versions. That’s the fix for cap jams…
I love your channel and the fact you shoot original guns. I myself own five Colt and Remington replicas by Pietta and I enjoy shooting them. Unfortunaltely I can't and probable will never be able to afford an original, but I feel as if I had some just by watching your content :) I'd love to own cartridge black powder revolvers, but the Polish law only allows cap and ball guns. Fortunately they're not classified as firearms here so I don't even need a licence to own and shoot them. Keep up the good work! Greetings from Poland!
Thank you!! i am glade you enjoy my videos. It's a crazy feeling knowing that I'm making videos in Nevada USA and people like yourself on the other side of the world can enjoy them. Sorry to hear about your local gun laws. I feel very fortunate to have the ability to buy these originals. There is a few options for buying these kind of guns in a affordable way. A company on GunBroker called lock-stock-and-barrel. They have a lay away program. You can pay on it as long as you want with a 2% interest per month. I haven't used it yet but a few of my friends have. Best of luck and i hope to see you in the comments again.
Nice Pocket Navy Snapper. - Your content is great and you could spread out the story a little further & relax a bit as you are among friends eh. I just bought an original Colt 1861 Navy (full size) at auction that looked great on the outside but is badly corroded internally ... still thinking what to do with it here in NZ. Cheers Mate & Thank You for sharing.
Thanks martin i still cant believe how lucky i got finding this one. Its become my favorite cap and ball revolver to shoot. I really appreciate the input especially honest critiques. i cant make better content unless i know what works and what doesn't. Critiques are highly welcome here. I was trying to keep the energy up in this video. i must have over done it a little lol. Do you mean make longer more detailed videos?....glade to hear about the new colt. Sorry to hear its insides are corroded. That is always upsetting and heart breaking. I have seen that far to many times. Thats why i always preach to collectors to take there guns apart. Even if its just a display gun. still take it apart at least once a year. Or more if you live in a humid area. So how bad is it? I would love to see pics. My email is( the wild snapper @ gmail. Com). Just without the gaps and all one word. TH-cam has been strange when putting email addresses in the comment section. It deletes the comment sometimes if you put a email address... I always recommend my preservation video. its steps on killing the corrosion and using it as a protective layer... On internals i find you can still make the gun work usually if you replace the effected parts. All the springs and the bolt if they are heavily pitted. its best to just replace them. If not to bad you can sand out all the corrosion and pitting On the springs and bolt. then polish them so they wont have a stress point to form a crack. Also uberti parts especially the internals work very well in original colts. Usually without even needing to modify them. they are cheap and a great way to make sure the gun is savable without spending lots of money. Then decide if you want to put original parts in the gun when you know its savable. The uberti hammer springs work but they are a little to weak and can cause cap jams. But you can double them up or find original hammer springs. the colt Single action army shares the same internals as the 51 and 61 Navy. And single action army parts are much easier to find. If you need any help please feel free to reach out.
Glade you enjoyed it. This pocket navy has become my favorite cap and ball revolver to shoot. I wish it was in better shape. Most of the cylinder scene is gone. But it shoots so good.
@@snappers_antique_firearms you know I'm always gonna refer to that as "the one that got away".... Next time we are at the show I'd like to get a Manhattan Arms revolver if it is in decent shape AND look for more 19th Century British Bowie knives. I know the Manhattan isn't worth as much. It's just something a little different.
very cool guy. I have a Pocket Police (clone) and it is one of my favorites. it is a very cool and quite modern design. Well done presentation and I learned a few things.
@@pilgrimm23 until my parents old place sells i not allowed to buy any guns. And since i cant i have had to pass on some crazy deals on 2 root revolvers. They were projects but crazy cheap. I am sure when i can buy there will be no deals and everything will be twice as much. I am also looking for a 1903 pocket hammerless....cant wait until the place sells.
Very cool information. I never gave it a lot of thought but did assume like you did. Good to know the truth though. Same firepower with one less round on a much more concealable revolver. I guess there was a reason it was so popular back then. So was it the Hammer spring that broke?
I thought the hammer spring broke. But it somehow slipped off the hammer. When i took the grips off i was so happy to see it was fine. just had to re install the hammer spring. Never had it happen before. Must be just slightly to short and somehow pop backwards
Lol me to.I had forgotten that the hammer spring wasnt this guns original spring. Its a original colt spring from a 49 pocket tho. this spring might be just a tiny bit to short. if cocked just right skips off the roller on the hammer. I took the backstrap off to see what's going on and that's what it looks like is happening. I need to buy some spring stock. the thickness of the original colt springs and make all new springs. That way its not so tragic as breaking a 160 year old part. I should finally be home in about 2 weeks or so. i will get that flintlock pistol out to you as soon as i am home.
I have never heard of dick Fairburn until just now. Looks like a good channel and is worth a sub. That song is one of like 15 old west sounding free music from youtubes creater page. There are quite a few of us gun channels with the same song.
@@snappers_antique_firearms That's awesome man. Definitely check out Dick Fairburn, he's very good and delves pretty deeply into the history of handguns. He's going to have a Wild Bill Hickok coming up and what pistol he would have carried had he been alive nowadays. Carry on with your awesome Colt videos and I'll subscribe as well today. I own a 3rd gen 1860 that is my EDC so I'm always searching for new videos on Colt pistols.
@codered7453 i definitely will, and thanks again for pointing out dick fairburns channel. I am always looking for good channels. How do you like your 3rd gen? I have never had the chance to look over or shoot any 3rd gens other than a quick look at a pocket navy a friend had. i mostly only have experience with first-generation colts. Does the 3rd gen 1860 have gain twist rifling like the first gen?
@snappers_antique_firearms Man, I love my 3rd Gen. It's very well made and finished. Even though Uberti helped build them, if you put them side by side, the Colt looks much better finished. It does have 7 groove gain twist rifling, and I actually had to make a front site for mine because it shot too high, but now, it's perfect. Shoots exactly where I aim it, and I've never had a single cap jam or chainfire. I had one misfire so far from using my self-made paper cartridge, and it was only because I twisted the rear paper too much to reliably ignite. Otherwise, never a single problem. The hammer spring is very heavy, so that may be why it doesn't cap jam or fail to fire. I wanted a Ruger Old Army but found the Colt in its original case and all accouterments and it had never even been fired so I bought it and now having practiced with it so much and knowing that it is (in my experience thus far) 99% reliable I wouldn't trade it for any Ruger. I carry it everywhere and shoot it every weekend so to answer your question in the most roundabout way, yessir I'm very happy with it. I hope to see you aquire a 3rd Gen 1860 at some point and do a review on it to see how it compares to an original.
@codered7453 thats great to hear they didn't lower any standards when making the 3rd gen. I have heard many people say bad things about 3rd gens. But come to find these people dont own one and are probably just repeating something they heard off the internet. Glade to hear from someone who actually owns and shoots one. I have been thinking of getting a few 2nd or 3rd gens. I would love to get a copy of each original colt i own. So i can display them together. show what the originals looked like when new..... when it comes to shooting high. every original colt i have ever shot shoots high. The main reason is people were trained back then to shoot at the belt Buckle, not center mass. This was because of the rainbow arc you get out of large caliber blackpowder loads. This made hits on a person out to 100 yards easy by not even needing to Compensate for distance by aiming in a different location..
Pick me I knew! Now if only the replica could only manufacture them with the correct tolerances today. If they would I'd add an 1862, 1860, and a 3rd model dragoon. Personally I think Samuel roles uncomfortably everytime a poorly manufactured replica is produced from Italy. Colt cold manufacture with more accurate tolerances a 160 years ago than replica's of today. This is with far better steels and machinery available today. Yet barrel housing to cylinder arbor don't have proper fit, wedge pins not properly sized. He'll they even attempt to set a proper wedge retaining screw. Just to name a few. This is my problem with the Remington V colt REPLICA'S debate new Comers are not looking for projects to fix. I still have a video planned for this subject. Mountain man
Dont get me wrong i love replicas but its crazy how with modern manufacturing they cant get there guns right. So many times i hear Remingtons a way better because they dont cap jam.....so many peoples opinion are based off false assumptions. There is a massive difference between a replica colt and a original.
@snappers_antique_firearms correct however there's no such thing as a percussion system that doesn't have cap jams. Even sidelock muzzleloader will have cap issues. I could name samples of such all day. Even ruger old army has cap jams..
@snappers_antique_firearms by the way did you see my 60 grain charge in a 1866 Remington carbine video?? It's more possible than you may think in colt armys as well
@@StevenMMan no i didn't.. i will watch it tomorrow i am headed to bed. Wow 60 grains. Did you compress the powder a few times before adding the ball. I could get 40 grains in my 1860. I bet i could get close to 60 in my dragoon. And i have used 60 in my walker.
Thanks for stopping by. I have deformed the caps. But unfortunately, they still don't like to stay on. Modern caps just don't fit original guns that well.
They are the same in every way, Only Difference is the looks of the cylinder and barrel. Production numbers are the biggest difference. Colt made far more pocket police revolvers. The pocket navy is very rare in cap and ball form. Colt only made around 2000 pocket navy's in cap and ball form. The rest were made as Cartridge conversions.
🤣 sounds like the same Tyler I know then. He gets pissed about lots of things. He still mad about about something that happed over 3 years ago when i ate the last oreos in a box. Some people call these civil war guns and or cowboy guns. There are a lot of guns that fall into this category. clint eastwood only used a few of these guns, 3 mostly.so I would think it would be Confusing to most people, To call them that. But I can understand where your coming from.
I wouldn't have thought that the chambers would hold just as much powder as a full-sized revolver.
Trust me i didnt either
That is the best video on that gun. The absolute truth is the hammer springs on original colts are way heavier than Italian reproduction versions. That’s the fix for cap jams…
Thanks, yeah, very heavy hammer springs on original Colts. With all my original Colts, they rarely get cap jams. It happens just not that often.
I love your channel and the fact you shoot original guns. I myself own five Colt and Remington replicas by Pietta and I enjoy shooting them. Unfortunaltely I can't and probable will never be able to afford an original, but I feel as if I had some just by watching your content :) I'd love to own cartridge black powder revolvers, but the Polish law only allows cap and ball guns. Fortunately they're not classified as firearms here so I don't even need a licence to own and shoot them. Keep up the good work! Greetings from Poland!
Thank you!! i am glade you enjoy my videos. It's a crazy feeling knowing that I'm making videos in Nevada USA and people like yourself on the other side of the world can enjoy them. Sorry to hear about your local gun laws. I feel very fortunate to have the ability to buy these originals. There is a few options for buying these kind of guns in a affordable way. A company on GunBroker called lock-stock-and-barrel. They have a lay away program. You can pay on it as long as you want with a 2% interest per month. I haven't used it yet but a few of my friends have. Best of luck and i hope to see you in the comments again.
"It was at this moment that he knew..." LOL. Glad it wasn't anything major.
😂 thanks!! Thats what i get to bragg about my gun before i as done shooting. 😂
Nice Pocket Navy Snapper. - Your content is great and you could spread out the story a little further & relax a bit as you are among friends eh.
I just bought an original Colt 1861 Navy (full size) at auction that looked great on the outside but is badly corroded internally ... still thinking what to do with it here in NZ. Cheers Mate & Thank You for sharing.
Thanks martin i still cant believe how lucky i got finding this one. Its become my favorite cap and ball revolver to shoot. I really appreciate the input especially honest critiques. i cant make better content unless i know what works and what doesn't. Critiques are highly welcome here. I was trying to keep the energy up in this video. i must have over done it a little lol. Do you mean make longer more detailed videos?....glade to hear about the new colt. Sorry to hear its insides are corroded. That is always upsetting and heart breaking. I have seen that far to many times. Thats why i always preach to collectors to take there guns apart. Even if its just a display gun. still take it apart at least once a year. Or more if you live in a humid area. So how bad is it? I would love to see pics. My email is( the wild snapper @ gmail. Com). Just without the gaps and all one word. TH-cam has been strange when putting email addresses in the comment section. It deletes the comment sometimes if you put a email address... I always recommend my preservation video. its steps on killing the corrosion and using it as a protective layer... On internals i find you can still make the gun work usually if you replace the effected parts. All the springs and the bolt if they are heavily pitted. its best to just replace them. If not to bad you can sand out all the corrosion and pitting On the springs and bolt. then polish them so they wont have a stress point to form a crack. Also uberti parts especially the internals work very well in original colts. Usually without even needing to modify them. they are cheap and a great way to make sure the gun is savable without spending lots of money. Then decide if you want to put original parts in the gun when you know its savable. The uberti hammer springs work but they are a little to weak and can cause cap jams. But you can double them up or find original hammer springs. the colt Single action army shares the same internals as the 51 and 61 Navy. And single action army parts are much easier to find. If you need any help please feel free to reach out.
Good info, I like my 62 pocket police, it’s quite concealable as well
I also like the pocket police. I will get one someday I am sure..
Always a good day when Snapper uploads. Great video, Snapper!
Thanks!! i am glade you enjoyed it.
Awesome revolver, and it's an original, so cool. Thank you for sharing.
Glade you enjoyed it. This pocket navy has become my favorite cap and ball revolver to shoot. I wish it was in better shape. Most of the cylinder scene is gone. But it shoots so good.
Over 150 years later, this Colt keeps soldiering on.
Yeah it's been a good little gun. I still can't believe we found it at the show
@@snappers_antique_firearms you know I'm always gonna refer to that as "the one that got away"....
Next time we are at the show I'd like to get a Manhattan Arms revolver if it is in decent shape AND look for more 19th Century British Bowie knives. I know the Manhattan isn't worth as much. It's just something a little different.
@Squib1911 lol understandable I can't wait to have you down again that was lots of fun. I need to get some of your guns back to you.
Great video I learned something new usually do tho when I watch your videos thanks buddy
Thanks brother love the new thumbnail.
very cool guy. I have a Pocket Police (clone) and it is one of my favorites. it is a very cool and quite modern design. Well done presentation and I learned a few things.
Thanks gray i have been wanting to get a pocket police and a root. When i do someday i will have all cap and ball pocket models colt made.
@@snappers_antique_firearms Root.....hummm I so lust .....
@@pilgrimm23 until my parents old place sells i not allowed to buy any guns. And since i cant i have had to pass on some crazy deals on 2 root revolvers. They were projects but crazy cheap. I am sure when i can buy there will be no deals and everything will be twice as much. I am also looking for a 1903 pocket hammerless....cant wait until the place sells.
Very nice... i wonder if the inside of that 51 chamber is coned like the 60 army. Depending on the year it is made
I was thinking that as well but looking down the chamber. it didnt look cone shaped. It seems very cylindrical
Very cool information. I never gave it a lot of thought but did assume like you did. Good to know the truth though. Same firepower with one less round on a much more concealable revolver. I guess there was a reason it was so popular back then. So was it the Hammer spring that broke?
I thought the hammer spring broke. But it somehow slipped off the hammer. When i took the grips off i was so happy to see it was fine. just had to re install the hammer spring. Never had it happen before. Must be just slightly to short and somehow pop backwards
That will teach me to brag about a gun before it's done shooting. Talk about a funny time to do that.
@@snappers_antique_firearms Yeah. It has a way of biting you on the butt when you speak good on cameras like that.
@@JWheeler331 😂yep
Snapper And I assumed that would run true to the 62 pocket police?
I would expect that to be true
Small little rod like a Snapper 😅
😏 that's what she said.
I’m glad it wasn’t anything serious. Why did the spring pop off?
Lol me to.I had forgotten that the hammer spring wasnt this guns original spring. Its a original colt spring from a 49 pocket tho. this spring might be just a tiny bit to short. if cocked just right skips off the roller on the hammer. I took the backstrap off to see what's going on and that's what it looks like is happening. I need to buy some spring stock. the thickness of the original colt springs and make all new springs. That way its not so tragic as breaking a 160 year old part. I should finally be home in about 2 weeks or so. i will get that flintlock pistol out to you as soon as i am home.
@@snappers_antique_firearms no worries man
Excellent video on an original Colt. Dick Fairburn, and you use the same opening theme song in your videos. Coincidence?
I have never heard of dick Fairburn until just now. Looks like a good channel and is worth a sub. That song is one of like 15 old west sounding free music from youtubes creater page. There are quite a few of us gun channels with the same song.
@@snappers_antique_firearms That's awesome man. Definitely check out Dick Fairburn, he's very good and delves pretty deeply into the history of handguns. He's going to have a Wild Bill Hickok coming up and what pistol he would have carried had he been alive nowadays. Carry on with your awesome Colt videos and I'll subscribe as well today. I own a 3rd gen 1860 that is my EDC so I'm always searching for new videos on Colt pistols.
@codered7453 i definitely will, and thanks again for pointing out dick fairburns channel. I am always looking for good channels. How do you like your 3rd gen? I have never had the chance to look over or shoot any 3rd gens other than a quick look at a pocket navy a friend had. i mostly only have experience with first-generation colts. Does the 3rd gen 1860 have gain twist rifling like the first gen?
@snappers_antique_firearms Man, I love my 3rd Gen. It's very well made and finished. Even though Uberti helped build them, if you put them side by side, the Colt looks much better finished. It does have 7 groove gain twist rifling, and I actually had to make a front site for mine because it shot too high, but now, it's perfect. Shoots exactly where I aim it, and I've never had a single cap jam or chainfire. I had one misfire so far from using my self-made paper cartridge, and it was only because I twisted the rear paper too much to reliably ignite. Otherwise, never a single problem. The hammer spring is very heavy, so that may be why it doesn't cap jam or fail to fire. I wanted a Ruger Old Army but found the Colt in its original case and all accouterments and it had never even been fired so I bought it and now having practiced with it so much and knowing that it is (in my experience thus far) 99% reliable I wouldn't trade it for any Ruger. I carry it everywhere and shoot it every weekend so to answer your question in the most roundabout way, yessir I'm very happy with it. I hope to see you aquire a 3rd Gen 1860 at some point and do a review on it to see how it compares to an original.
@codered7453 thats great to hear they didn't lower any standards when making the 3rd gen. I have heard many people say bad things about 3rd gens. But come to find these people dont own one and are probably just repeating something they heard off the internet. Glade to hear from someone who actually owns and shoots one. I have been thinking of getting a few 2nd or 3rd gens. I would love to get a copy of each original colt i own. So i can display them together. show what the originals looked like when new..... when it comes to shooting high. every original colt i have ever shot shoots high. The main reason is people were trained back then to shoot at the belt Buckle, not center mass. This was because of the rainbow arc you get out of large caliber blackpowder loads. This made hits on a person out to 100 yards easy by not even needing to Compensate for distance by aiming in a different location..
Pick me I knew! Now if only the replica could only manufacture them with the correct tolerances today. If they would I'd add an 1862, 1860, and a 3rd model dragoon. Personally I think Samuel roles uncomfortably everytime a poorly manufactured replica is produced from Italy. Colt cold manufacture with more accurate tolerances a 160 years ago than replica's of today. This is with far better steels and machinery available today. Yet barrel housing to cylinder arbor don't have proper fit, wedge pins not properly sized. He'll they even attempt to set a proper wedge retaining screw. Just to name a few.
This is my problem with the Remington V colt REPLICA'S debate new Comers are not looking for projects to fix. I still have a video planned for this subject.
Mountain man
Dont get me wrong i love replicas but its crazy how with modern manufacturing they cant get there guns right. So many times i hear Remingtons a way better because they dont cap jam.....so many peoples opinion are based off false assumptions. There is a massive difference between a replica colt and a original.
@snappers_antique_firearms correct however there's no such thing as a percussion system that doesn't have cap jams. Even sidelock muzzleloader will have cap issues. I could name samples of such all day.
Even ruger old army has cap jams..
@snappers_antique_firearms by the way did you see my 60 grain charge in a 1866 Remington carbine video?? It's more possible than you may think in colt armys as well
@@StevenMMan i completely agree. I should have said far less cap jams
@@StevenMMan no i didn't.. i will watch it tomorrow i am headed to bed. Wow 60 grains. Did you compress the powder a few times before adding the ball. I could get 40 grains in my 1860. I bet i could get close to 60 in my dragoon. And i have used 60 in my walker.
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Thanks for stopping by. I have deformed the caps. But unfortunately, they still don't like to stay on. Modern caps just don't fit original guns that well.
Is it the same fore the 1862 police?
They are the same in every way, Only Difference is the looks of the cylinder and barrel. Production numbers are the biggest difference. Colt made far more pocket police revolvers. The pocket navy is very rare in cap and ball form. Colt only made around 2000 pocket navy's in cap and ball form. The rest were made as Cartridge conversions.
Would it be fair to call these "Clint Eastwood" guns?? a friend of mine named Tyler is getting pissed that I call them that.
🤣 sounds like the same Tyler I know then. He gets pissed about lots of things. He still mad about about something that happed over 3 years ago when i ate the last oreos in a box. Some people call these civil war guns and or cowboy guns. There are a lot of guns that fall into this category. clint eastwood only used a few of these guns, 3 mostly.so I would think it would be Confusing to most people, To call them that. But I can understand where your coming from.
@@snappers_antique_firearmsWhat do you mean by that?
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