1889 Bodeo

[Aragorn243]

This is one of RTI's imports, the lowest grade they sold. All grades looked the same to me so I didn't see the point in paying extra. Ordered it about two months ago but they took forever to ship and this was the first weekend since Mike got it that I could meet up with him to get it.

Of course they wire wheeled it. I wish they would stop doing that. Not much rust on it, a small amount on the interior and some under the paint they missed with the wheel but none where the paint came off.

Everything works. The trigger is the most interesting thing, obviously, no guard and it folds up when not in use. It locks into place and is released as soon as you start pulling the hammer back. It is double action. Can be fired by pulling the hammer back or pulling the trigger. Trigger pull is not bad, not near as bad as a Nagant revolver.

The bore looks great. One of the cylinders has something in it, can't tell if it's fossilized goo or rust, the other five look good. I think the sixth cylinder is fully functional, just needs cleaned a bit more.

I have since torn it apart, only two full serial numbers on it, cylinder and frame. All parts including the cylinder and frame are stamped on the inside with a 63 so it's surprisingly all matching. None of the grips in the photos had much checkering left so I think I got lucky there.

I got the remaining paint off and much of the wire wheel marks were minimized in cleaning but they are still there, aggravating.

They are currently sold out of these but they could get more in. They didn't have many to begin with, about 15 in this condition, 5 in what they called the next higher grade and 2 antiques which they still have for a ridiculous price and looking worse than this.

After photos after I finish cleaning and putting it back together.