Remington Bulldog at the Range
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- čas přidán 10. 04. 2015
- This is the first video filmed at my new range in the country, called "Duelist's Den". In this video load and shoot the .44 caliber Remington Bulldog, snub nose cap and ball revolver.
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Holy Smokes that was accurate for a chopped barrel! I saw that modified set screw holding in the cylinder pin (answered an earlier question). Now a company is making a spring loaded hook to hold the cylinder pin in. Makes a long barreled 1858 look kind of weird but on a snubby... it would look good. With all these Evil Roys accusing you of having an extra Ace up your sleeve and dealing from the bottom of the deck... and the famed Duelist shooting first I don't think we will be playing cards anytime soon. You are just too good a shot.
Looks like a real good shooter. My local shop has a couple of these full sized used on the shelf for not much $. I might have to try this conversion. It looks very interesting!
Nice series of videos & really good to see you on your range!
I've been waiting to see this one. I really enjoyed the entire series of videos. Great job!
Great to see you and the bulldog out on YOUR range.
I'd like to see a video on the performance of the "Bulldog" on ballistic gel, or possibly a water (milk) jug penetration test. Possibly in comparison to a full size 1858.
Good to see your project come to fruition.
Way to go Mike!! That gun really shoots well. Congratulations on your first recorded shoot at The Duelists Den.
Nice to see you out at your new place Mike. Looking forward to many new build and shoot videos
Nice to see you settled down at your own range! This video was worth watching for the cylinder replacement tip alone, very many thanks for that tip!
Pleased to see the bulldog range test + your new shooting range. That revolver shoots a tight group. Well done Mike!
Super serie! Thanks for sharing👍
This series was awesome
I am glad to see a video from your new range Duelist's Den. Also I like there are no sounds of other firearms which used to interrupt your dialog. A welcome improvement. I hope you enjoy it.
Great Fun, Mike. Always enjoy your vids!
Tom I.
It's so nice that you now have your own range. I hope you and your wife are enjoying the property.
I really like the appearance of your cut down Remington belly gun. It's looks like it's easy to handle and shoot....and also pretty accurate too!
Thanks for the video.
Really cool, congrats!
Thanks. Enjoyed. Great shooting partner!!!!!
You did a real nice job Mike. I made one of my 1851's into a "Bulldog", but I carry the loading lever with me and when it's time to reload, I just screw it in place and then take it off when I'm done. I love it, and after some "reliability" work on it. she's never failed to fire.
Cool video Mike :) And congratulations on your land purchase :) I'm currently looking at 5 semi-wooded acres outside of town on a side road. For right now it would be strictly for shooting, but I would eventually build a house there to live in. Being a firearms enthusiast in a crowded suburban subdivision is annoying to say the least.. And we have no outdoor ranges here :(
Great video!
great vid
That's a nice build, Mike.
very nice good shooting little pistol
Good stuff, Mike.
Glad to see you on your own range. It should be smooth sailing from here on in. That evil Roy is certainly a career trouble maker. Thanks for the video.
nice project. OLE ROY'S NADS SURVIVED!!! :-)
Nice job!
nice looking piece
Happy Resurrection Day Mike,(Orthodox) Calendar)
I salute your creativity with your bulldog project, you demonstrated honed Black Powder Gun Smithing skills, I like the end results a neat little accurate powerhouse! Good to see your new range up for the 1st time, Best of luck.
Thumb up for the effort, but I'd really like to see chronograph numbers comparing the standard vs short barrels.
Good stuff
One of my long term goals it to have my own patch of land I can shoot on. The bulldog turned out nice.
I'm thinking the proper punishment on Evil Roy for cheating should have been a lower point of aim. :D
Hope you get to doing a Part 2 of this at the range!
Just got a New Model Army used at a local auction for $80, This looks like the perfect project since I already have another full sized one. Thinking about using it with the 45ACP cylinder kit with cast bullets.
in case anybody was wanting to do this same mod but wanted an easier way to replace the loading lever and not fiddle with the screw, old south firearms sells a catch to replace the loading lever for about $30.
the D D range is comming along fine.
Actually Mike, In the winter, when I have a full coat on, I carry a full size Rem 1858. But I think the advantage is that you can change cylinders if ever in a real fight. I know this is not likely, but a possibility. So, I also carry 3 extra loaded cylinders with me. Anyone who has practiced with a Rem 1858 can reload a new cylinder in 6 seconds. I can with some consistency.
But this well modified weapon would be even better for concealed carry. I may need to make one for the summer months, when it is harder to hide things. I certainly can't carry my full-sized 1858 in the summer, and expect no one to not notice. A nice modification, which was done, to these fine old revolvers.
And to those of you who think black powder arms are not good for concealed carry... You should really think about it. The smoke alone confuses adversaries. And less penetration means less likely that someone behind that adversary will be injured. Less penetration also means you deliver all of the force of the bullet to the body of the adversary... This is more important than you might think.
Thanks for another great video, Mike.
love your video's mike, you gave me the inspiration to make a bulldog out of one of my old 58 stainless steel remy;s, which is almost complete. added a quick release lever for the cyl, pin from old south firearms, only thing left to do is come up with some kida quick release pin so i can swap out the quick release bar to the loading lever and vice versa without having to mess around with the loading lever screw.any idea's? congrats on your new shooting range.
The Bulldog doesn't seem to miss the few inches of barrel you took off......lol
Good shootin', Mike.
2nd. bottle fell down scared cause it knew, what gonna happen to it too in min. 10:35.
I love your idea, how it would be, to go to gunsmith in good old 1860's to let change a Remington 1858 into a Bulldog, let the history live on. Wouln'd it able to hold the cylinder basepin by a cylinderrelease like the Colt SAA 1885 got, for a quick cylinder Change, instead of the setscrew? (Love the bass Sound your little Dog is barking. Nice Piece of handwork. Regards and respeckt from Germany
Good to see you out on your new range. That little baby seems as accurate as a full length barrel. Did the bulldog Remington actually exist in days gone by or is just a fun gun?
Any plans for a cartridge conversion for this gun???....Maybe a Kirst with a loading gate...if you gotta have a concealed carry, might as well be a cool concealed carry!!!!
Why make a loading gate when it has a quick change cylinder
@@randellhillspeaks753 45. Colt is safer and never missfire unlike a percussion load
Remember folks, when adjusting the front sight, drift it the opposite way you want the point of impact to move.
Nice to see it all come together so nicely
In Britain you need a licence for a cap&ball revolver (which you cannot modify like you have here), and you need hundreds of acres to shoot on your own land... A shame, frankly - But nonetheless when the paperwork is done I'm eyeing up a couple of Uberti replicas - No Duelists Den for myself but certainly some smoke!
Captain Bogroll I know, what a shame. I have several ex-pat British friends who are here because they can shoot as they like
duelist1954 I can tell you it's certainly tempting, but I'd have no clue how to start anew in a different (though admittedly very similar in culture) country
+Captain Bogroll you could start by all the firearms your wallet would allow ;)
Captain Bogroll There are something like 100 million firearms owners here, if memory serves. We could always use one more ;) And in the U.S., muzzleloaders are not considered "guns," so they can be shipped right to your front door.. No special paperwork, etc. needed :)
crazyfvck Again I love the higher sense of liberty found in the US when it comes to gun ownership - Though I have no idea how to effectively start my life all over again
Personally I would have set up a spring loaded catch using the loading lever hole to hold in the base pin. That way you wouldn't need any tools to remove the cylinder. Still wouldn't be able to load the cylinder while installed in the revolver but it might prove a little easier to operate.
I've often wondered about combining features of several types of guns. Your round butt almost birdshead snub barrel is really nice. Even better than the Production Colt Replica Snubby and apparently more accurate than the factory gun too. You were doing consistent heart shot groups. I could see something like this on an East Coast Detective or Brit besides the Old West Gambler. Now some questions. Your Preference...
Uberti vs Pietta
Colt Navy vs Remington Sheriff
Preformed BP Pellets Evil or Nice and Easy
Hey,I can understand what your saying now without someone else banging away in the background,nice!
If the proof of the pudding is in the tasting, you got yourself one delicious BP snubby there, Duelist. If I could lay my hands on one like that, I'd consider myself one lucky hombre.
Sweet
Great job Mike. I enjoyed watching all your video segments of this 1858 Remy "bulldog" build and test firing. I'm glad you got your own "Duelist Den" private range and don't have to deal with the irrational, needlessly politically correct Fudds at the old range where you used to shoot your videos. It's their loss, certainly not yours. Now they don't get any free publicity from your videos anymore. It was dirty how they did you, but now you've got your own shooting range and don't have to deal with them anymore. I'd like to see you build some small fake storefronts and saloon fronts for a bit of old west realism. Maybe even build yourself a walk thru old timey shooting course where you could start out with a muzzle loading double barrel shotgun, then switch to perhaps a Remington revolver carbine and then to a revolving handgun or two to finish the course of fire with. That would be cool to see. Many times cowboy action shooting is static and it would be nice to see a walking course of fire. Maybe build yourself a old timey looking shed to keep your targets and a few things in too.
Hi Mike, Howell sells a very clever base pin retaining device for the 1858 Remington. How did you get such a bolt drag line on the cylinder?
Congratulations on your new range!!
Regards,
Richard
I'm pretty sure there is a spring made for the 1858 that holds the arbor in so you don't have to tap a screw into the lower Barrel
i wish i could afford to do up a range in my yard, maybe get a sound dampening wall so i don't disturb the whole neighborhood. that's some kinda little gun there.
I could imagine Clint Eastwood having one in hideout in Pale Rider.
Sure wish I could do this to mine
In a modern self-defense encounter, I expect the blast of smoke may cloud the issue for witnesses.
Havin trouble with rotation huh. Your wedge is in too tight.... LOL But really Im glad I went back and found this. That is an awesome looking revolver friend. You do good work. Do you still have this one?
welp looks like ill be chopping up my 1858 sheriff
"Buzzards gotta to eat, same a worms" Josey Wales. Great Job, I can see you happy with it, no? （￣ー￣）
Do you have any bullet FPS measurements for the 1858 with this barrel length?
I was inspired by your creation and have made my own version and I love it. But I have no way of calculating its FPS and by extension its "power".
I am running a .451 round ball over 30 grains of FF.
Another great video.Very creative and knowledgeable. I would worry about ricochet on those steel targets.Any advice on how to not get hit with those targets when shooting at them?
The fixed targets are permanently angled down, which deflects bullet fragments down to the ground. The swinging targets move back under impact, also deflecting bullets to the ground.
@@duelist1954 thanks for the information.Do appreciate your time and all you do .
I'd love one but not sure my Skill level is high enough. I have two 1860 Army snub in white I love. But this one looks a little less bulkyand sleeker for carry
Fantastic job. I think a bp will be my next purchase. I def would like to make up some paper cartridges for ease of loading. Your though on using hemp rolling papers?
Derek Everyguy I've used cigaret rolling papers, they work OK. Use the double wides. They are more delicate than actual cartridge paper.
Derek Everyguy I've found the loading port on my 1851's a little too small for paper cartridges. Or I'm rolling them too big. ( = I used rolling papers for them as well and they seemed to work fairly well for me, but I had to load them with the cylinder out. Had to double them up then trim them. The "King Sized" papers are pretty expensive in comparison.
Is there a way to strengthen the hand spring on these cap and ball revolvers?
I barely bumped the sight on an 1858 Remington and it broke off they must heat treat that piece too much making it brittle I'm thinking of silver soldering it on but I don't know how to do it but then I super glued it on and it seems to be really on their first I use J-B Weld but I have not shot it yet and if that's safe keeps coming off I'm making a bulldog which sucks because I loved that 8 inch barrel so I'll have to go buy another one but I'm poor
Nice vid! Is it an Uberti or an Pietta?
Hans R Pietta
I had the idea to change my remington into a shorter gun seeing a special sell but you, you did better !!! I wd like to known how you did for the grip.The original metal is not that way
oh i forgot, great video , short whith results on target.Thanks
The Pietta Remington has a lot of extra steel on the grip frame. I just designed the shape I wanted and cut it out of the existing grip frame.
@@duelist1954 I thought about it thanks for your help.You did it so perfectly I thought you changed the piece of metal !!! In France we can buy a 58 rem for 200 euros (240 dollars maybe) what is the price in your nice country ?
@@duelist1954 You did a video about the changing and I just discovered it now !!! all the way of doing is inside, thank you a lot !!!czcams.com/video/monbm21UqQ0/video.html
Is it possible to do something similar with a Navy Colt replica?
Do you have any idea how much muzzle velocity you lost with the shortened barrel?
could you please explain the reason for this difficulties with cocking after shooting as seen here 9:34 ?
What holster do you use for this,if i were going to buy a holster,what gun size would i compare this to?
Do you have a holster in the works?
How can I get the magazine, you write for? Is it still in print?
Are these still being sold? I haven't found it anywhere yet
No. It's just something I made to entertain myself.
what was the total time on this build? start to finish?
TheStraycat74 maybe five hours...it has been quite awhile ago
How much velocity do you think you lost with that barrel cut I'm wanting to do a similar project either with the same Remington or a colt
watchoutnwo Several hundred feet per second.
@@duelist1954 would it still have any stopping power? I would like it to be a little truck gun or something or even just to throw into a bug out bag?
Better than nothing, but under the 200 foot pound level that I think is the floor for self-defense
@TDM TOMAHAWK I made this 5 years ago, and I didn't chronograph it.
load six an only cap 5 till last shot maybe!
He follows his shooting club rules and never deviates so as to never break the rules of his club. Good habits make good rule following.
321minder excellent idea, was wondering if that may cause a chain fire though with open nipple?
Don't suppose you know of anybody who offers a similar service where I could get one of my Remingtons cut down like yours would you?
Any gunsmith should be able to do the job. Just show them how you want it to look
Mike have you run it through the chronograph?
No I haven’t
@@duelist1954 could you? i would love to onow ballistics before building one.
And the range is ?
I don't get it - there is no dog! :-)
Much easier to load that way mike.
Add a thumbscrew
don't recommend shooting at a card game way too slow
I am not at all convinced any SA pistol, no matter how small, qualifies to wear the name of Bulldog. The original Bulldogs were all European Double Action (DA) pistols which were much more affordable (and popular.common) here in America than were the over priced clunky things sold by S&W and Colt (hence their media campaign to smear them as cheap inferior imports and suicide specials).
Webleys and Enfields had a brief time on the market 1890's to 1930's in the US. I don't think they were smeared per se as they were not chambered in calibers Americans wanted. .455 and 38 S&W (not Special) were not as common to come by as 38 Special, 45 Long Colt, and 45 ACP. Detonics made several Revolvers that were break open like the Euro Wheel Guns and had some of Euro styling. I believe (don't hold me to it) there was a Webley Bulldog and it started a class of Wheelguns that followed it. Snubs from Charter Arms, S&W, Colt, and Ruger continue a heritage of the originals Bulldogs.
P.S. The US made their fair share of junk guns to compete with junk guns from Europe. LOL! (That is a joke as most people here pine for European Guns and see them as superior. Sig Sauer, HK, Beretta, Etc.)
All it needs now is a Kirst gated converter.
MAGA!
Cool👍😎