The Frontier Sixshooter Community Message Board - John thanks for posting!

John thanks for posting! (reply)

Rob Leahy — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 01:54:59 +0000

Cool stuff. The .480 Achilles has always fascinated me. What men might have done o customize a firearm to suit their needs is always interesting.

Reminds me of the piano player in El Dorado. (reply)

JohnKDM — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 01:28:52 +0000

...and produced a nice smokescreen to cover your escape. (reply)

JohnKDM — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 01:27:05 +0000

Which brings up another point - once the fight started, multiple shots fired from BP handguns ought to cloud up a bar. No telling who would get shot during a second exchange?

I don't doubt it did penetrate them! (reply)

JimT — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 01:25:43 +0000

And yes, I think that was one of the last set Tedd made.

It did! I appreciate your help with it and the grips (reply)

JohnKDM — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 01:20:07 +0000

from Tedd A. were an unexpected bonus. They were likely some of the last he made.

BTW, the 900fps load penetrated all six gallon jugs of water shown in one of those pics.

John K.

By the way .. that 480 of yours really came out nicely! (reply)

JimT — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 01:08:17 +0000

You did a great job and with Tedd's stocks on it really looks good.

I did that with my old 1st Generation Colt .45 (reply)

JimT — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 01:06:05 +0000

Made in 1887. I was cleaning it up and rebarreling it and when I had the barrel off I thought of what Elmer wrote so like you did, I fired some loads through it. The black powder loads were especially vicious. Lots of flame and smoke. If you were face to face with someone and let one of those go they got hit with a flamethrower.

Elmer wrote of gunmen carrying Colt SAs without barrels

JohnKDM — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:47:01 +0000

in specially prepared coat pockets. Anyone try it? I did, while I had the barrel off my 480A for rust bluing. Fired a cylinder full (with some trepidation) and when everything looked fine - no frame thread damage - I loaded up five more and fired them at a sheet of plywood at seven yards with a video camera running. Of course, with no front sight it was a case of 'look over the topstrap' but it worked surprisingly well.

From the pics, you can see one slug tipped and two of the 290gr slugs landed sideways... and yet, the group would be quite effective at the usual social distance. Later, I chrono'd these and they ran 650fps instead of 900fps with the 4.75" barrel.

https://youtu.be/ftJ7gLMp6fc