My recent return to percussion revolvers involved a Armi Remington new army .44 and a Uberti Colt 1862 Pocket .36. I also have a Ruger Old Army.
Absolutely no problems with the .44 or Ruger. Load them, shoot them, clean them, repeat.
The Uberti 1862 Pocket is quite another story. She is a looker but not a shooter! At least not yet.
I have a miriad of issues with this little revolver and I blame my ignorance for most of them. Cap jams started the string of issues, went from the Uberti nipples to Treso, then Slixprings. Treso seem to work best but was still getting cap jams.
Took the revolver apart and worked on the hammer face to polish it. This was an improvement to cap jams but reassembly to seem bring up another set of problems. The bolt was not working correctly. Research got me to loosening the bolt/trigger spring.
This helped but now I am having cylinder rotation issues. Not sure if this is my inexperience (probably) or maybe a known issue with Uberti Colt replicas?
My observations.
An empty cylinder rotates as expected with the wedge tight (wedge protruding 1/4”). A full loaded cylinder will not rotate properly with the wedge tight. If I loosen the wedge (the wedge is not protruding) I can get the cylinder to rotate correctly.
I am just a little reluctant to let it go bang with wedge not protruding.
Any suggestions to resolve these issues?