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1860 Navy

gunshybobgunshybob Member Posts: 38 ✭✭
edited April 2004 in Ask the Experts
I have an 1860 Navy with a Richardson Conversion to
38 Special, any idea where i can find parts for baby.
Thanks! Bob!!![?]

Robert W. Priestley
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  • Contender ManContender Man Member Posts: 2,110 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Is this a replica or an original?

    If replica who made it?

    If original, parts are rare, and I suggest you put a post in this sites WTB forum, as well as other collectors forums, and you might want to place an add in Shotgun News if none of the other routes turn up anything.

    ===Update===

    Normally I'm not totally asleep at the switch, but I certainly wasn't hitting on all "8" with this reply.

    Can't be an original conversion because 38 special wasn't around then.

    Read 1860 and brain say "Army" while eye sees "Navy" ('51 or '61) oops, then does another mental flip on caliber as the 38 conversion was on the Navy.

    Seeing Richards or Richards-Mason being called Richardsons, or Masons, etc., is not uncommon so I sleep through that part.

    My original question should have been "original pistol with modern conversion, or reproduction with modern conversion"

    I've seen modern conversions advertised, but can't recall any being claimed to work on an original, which I would not even tink about shooting 38 specials in, but that's me. Also, seems to me that the modern conversions are maker specific.

    I have reproductions of both the Army and the Navy as well as the Police, but they are not conversions ... I have plenty of S&W's for the 38 spec.

    Apologies for any confusion created by my "napping reply".[:(]

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  • rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Got a break down in communications here somehow?

    Never, ever was a Model 1860 Navy made by Colt. The Colt Navies were the Models 1851 & 1861.

    There were "RICHARDS" & "RICHARDS-MASON" Conversions of the Colt 1860 Army Revolver. Needless to say that they weren't converted to .38 Special but to .44 Colt Centerfire.

    As the previous poster suggested, your going to have to clarify your question?

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  • captkirk3@dslextreme.comcaptkirk3@dslextreme.com Member Posts: 3,804
    edited November -1
    Rufe-Snow is correct...Post a photo for us....and mic the cylinder and Bore....discribe all the markings and numbers....

    Captain Kirk, Tech Staff
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