{"id":27172,"date":"2025-06-09T04:02:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/09\/pietta-vs-uberti-1861-navy-36-showdown-mechanical-accuracy-duel\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T04:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:02:26","slug":"pietta-vs-uberti-1861-navy-36-showdown-mechanical-accuracy-duel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/09\/pietta-vs-uberti-1861-navy-36-showdown-mechanical-accuracy-duel\/","title":{"rendered":"Pietta vs Uberti 1861 Navy .36 showdown &#8211; mechanical accuracy duel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fOvAQVTlGxg?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1&#038;controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I have been playing with the Uberti and Pietta repro of the Colt 1861 Navy .36 revolver, and even if I have been shooting black powder for nearly 3 decades now, I could still learn new things thanks to the Ransom rest. I was searching for the ultimate charge, that delivers the best accuracy. Of course this is only one side of the question, but for me, as a target shooter the most important one. All in all, both are capable of match winning scores, so if we can&#8217;t find the center of the target, the reason is not the iron but the flesh behind it. Here is the coverage of the final duel!<\/p>\n<p>Please support us on Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/capandball\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/capandball<\/a><br \/>Please visit us on History of Weapons and War: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weaponsandwar.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.weaponsandwar.tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1st part: What makes a percussion revolver accurate? <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bFRHC6xMPj0?si=3ZqTR34Nz0NonVnP<br\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/bFRHC6xMPj0?si=3ZqTR34Nz0NonVnP<br<\/a> \/>2nd part: Whickj is more accurate with service charges? Pietta 1861 Navy vs Uberti: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2i61fANxk_w?si=tvI8y22npGfiPHaD<br\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/2i61fANxk_w?si=tvI8y22npGfiPHaD<br<\/a> \/><br \/>#firearmshistory #capandball #revolver #colts #navycolt #blackpowder #muzzleloading #uberti #pietta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been playing with the Uberti and Pietta repro of the Colt 1861 Navy .36 revolver, and even if I have been shooting black powder for nearly 3 decades now, I could still learn new things thanks to the Ransom rest. I was searching for the ultimate charge, that delivers the best accuracy. Of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/09\/pietta-vs-uberti-1861-navy-36-showdown-mechanical-accuracy-duel\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pietta vs Uberti 1861 Navy .36 showdown &#8211; mechanical accuracy duel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}