Posted this on a few other sites...just venting.

Opened the box on a new .36 Rem. Navy today....pretty gun, very nice blue, crisp and tightly fittted, timed right...but an Italian Bubba decided that it was a good thing to fit a .44 CYLINDER IN A .36 REVOLVER!

Now the cylinders are the saem external size...but the barrel is .36 and is marked as .36.

Seems I missed my chance to be one eyed and/or one handed but living a good retired live in Key West...I called it in within the first minute of the box being opened.

I do understand that the supplier doesn't open the boxes...they just wharehouse them and sell them....so the screw up is on the maker's part. The supplier is taking care of the problem with minimum trouble to me.

BUT...there is a suspiscion that somehwre out there, there is a gun with a .44 Rem. that is having a devil of a time trying to get his .454" ball into a .36 cylincer.

I didn't know that it took 15 years to sell the other half of my mix up. Pieta put a 36 cal Cylinder on a 44 cal gun that I received 15 years ago. Received a replacement from my supplier within 6 days, so I had it for BP season. They must have shipped the replacement as soon as I called, without waiting for the return.

Lee L.

A friend of mine got a CVA flinter in .50cal or so it was marked on the barrel. He complained that the balls he bought were too small and the patches too thin. Ball mfg insisted that they were the correct size and the patch mfg sent replacements. Finally he asked me to have a look at it and it was quite clear that his ".50" was in deed a ".54"! He was trying to use .490 balls and three patches and wondering why it loaded so easy yet would not hit anything. Got him the correct size balls and it actually shot very well.

Bubba sure gets around doesn't he? Even in foreign countries it seems.

Lee L.

Does make one wonder about the validity of those proof marks, doesn't it?

Proof marks....we don't need no stinking proof marks! LOL