Reeder Custom Guns - Making a percussion revolver throw bigger pills?

Have you ever experimented with converting percussion .44 revolvers to a larger 5 shot .50 cal percussion gun? A .50 cal percussion revolver to my mind would serve well as a howdah pistol of sorts.

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Old Army in 475 caliber and in 50 caliber in our American Classic. There was an article in American Handgunner on both of them. We recently were hacked and lost probably 25% of the pics on our web site. The guns were lost in that. We just haven't had time to re-do much of the site.Here are some pics.
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We also did the gun on the blued revolver but those pics were lost also. We built quite a few of the guns before they were wiped out off the site.

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locating a Ruger Old Army can be a bit of a pain these days? Would it be safe to make a repro walker or 1858 into a larger cal five shooter?

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The Ruger is the strongest made and I won't build them on any weaker guns.

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It's really too bad there aren't any coil spring percussion guns with modern heat treatments available these days.

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Is do it up right. I love my Uberti guns more than I can express, but customs are built on Ruger frames.

Only exceptions are BFRs and Gary's big frames.

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percussion revolvers available on the market that would be strong enough for these sorts of mods?

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Ruger has quietly re-introduced new from the factory stainless and blued Ruger Old Army revolvers. Check the Lipseys website.

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Ya don't say? I think there may be an American Classic in my future.

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Are you adding a new barrel? I know your fabricating a new cylinder. Stainless barrel and cylinder on a blued frame could look snazzy and allows me to buy the cheaper of the old army's as a base.

Making a percussion revolver throw bigger pills?

Cap, you must be new on here. We built the Ruger

Oh wow, those are nice but

in my opinion, no. I won't touch one of the Italian guns

That's a shame

Several Ruger old army’s on GB.

I see them pretty often too. My idea on a custom...

Are there any other

NOT HARD TO FIND AT ALL. LOCAL

ROA are back

WHERE?? DON'T SEE THEM

Well well well

On these builds

You still need the strong Ruger frame.

I can assure you it'll be a new, top quality barrel...