So I have a vision that I want to complete and share with the shooting community.
The start of this journey will be this revolver...
It's a great condition 36 caliber Uberti 1858 New Navy revolver. From here I plan to send it to Lodgewood to have him defarb it and mark it for my personal ideas as well as cutting the barrel down to 5.5" or whatever is even with the end of the loading gate (Think SAA 4 3/4). The total idea of this revolver is to appear as if we are sitting in 1878 or about and this revolver is in front of us but has been taken care of as good as someone on the frontier could. From Lodgewood I plan to have the revolver fitted with a Kirst 38 Special gated conversion that will be fed with correct 38 Colt SHORT heeled ammo. And lastly and this is where I need you guys for help...
I plan to help myself and a well known grip maker to design some grips for this revolver. We are in talks now but my idea I believe will be some black grips in either Ebony wood or black horn grips. And this is where you guys come in...I plan to have some case head medallions installed on the grips. But the problem is I don't know what case heads would be accurate or where I could find them. Obviously center fire 38 Colt case heads would fit this particular build better but real cartridge conversions of the time would have been rimfire correct?
Open and eager to hear you guys' opinions on where I should go with this idea. The finished revolver will be heavily photographed and posted here and also on the grip maker's website I'm sure to help promote his stuff. (Maybe even lodgewood and Kirst's sites) I like helping these guys as much as possible!