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Pietta Dance and Brothers .44-Caliber Revolver
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Pietta Dance and Brothers .44-Caliber Revolver

    • Working replica of a rare Confederate side arm
    • Unique design and appearance
    • One-piece walnut grip
Production for this dragoon-type six-shot round cylinder revolver was started to attempt to meet the South’s great need for small arms, but is believed to have been limited to fewer than 500 because the factory had to be relocated due to the threat of shelling by Union gunboats. Absence of recoil-shield protrusions gave the gun a flatter appearance than its contemporaries. One-piece walnut grips. Blued finish. Brass grip straps.
Barrel length: 8".
Overall length: 13-1/4".
Weight: 2 lbs. 7 oz.



Text Size: AAA
Overall Customer Rating: 
4.2 out of 5
4.2 out of 5
4 out of 5(80%)customers would recommend this product to a friend.
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5 out of 5
5 out of 5
idaram
Location:Nampa Idaho
Age:56-65
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? Yes
Outstanding!
Date:
I will simply say that the Dance brothers would be very proud of this reproduction. The quality is superb. Pietta's quality control has REALLY improved from 2001.
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5 out of 5
5 out of 5
JesseJr
Location:Second Texas Cavalry
Age:56-65
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? Yes
Amazingly Historically Accurate
Date:
Many people believe that Dance Brothers revolver replicas should be virtually identical in size to the Colt Dragoon because they have read in one or more publications that the Dance revolver was patterned after the Colt Dragoon. I too have read the same misleading information many times during the last decade, and in different publications. Who knows from where the inaccurate description originated, or how many decades ago it was first published, and then used as reference material.
For several years, I wanted to buy the Pietta version, but was turned off by the high price and the fact that in order to be historically accurate, you would have to change the trigger guard. I also was afraid there would be more inaccuracies. Historical accuracy is very important to me. I knew a guy who had a real one, so I took my 3rd model Dragoon & a \u201951 Navy to compare sizes. Although that original Dance was a little beefier than the Navy or an 1860 Army, it was not even nearly as big and bulky as the Dragoon.
Just about the time I learned Cabela\u2019s was offering the Dance with the correct trigger guard for much cheaper than their competitors, I came across and bought the rare book \u201cDance & Brothers-Texas Gunmakers of the Confederacy\u201d. This is a great book with many photographs & much history. At the time it was written in 1986, the highest known serial # was 365, and fewer than 80 handguns were known to have survived. In the book, there are detailed pictures of 34 pistols and dug up relic pistols & parts. Since in essence the Dance Brothers revolver was hand made and hand fitted, there are no 2 completely identical. It was after I bought the book and compared the pictures with the ones of the Pietta replicas that I decided to buy one. That was about a year ago.
As far as proof that these Piettas are accurate replicas, the pictures of the cylinders on page 138 tell the whole story. when you look at the 44 cal holes, and the wall thicknesses between chambers, it is identical to the reproduction cylinder in scale & length...the rest of the pistol is in scale with the cylinder. Even what I perceived as an imperfection on the underside of the barrel is historically accurate (pages 98-99, 104-105). The barrel has the correct girth compared with most of the pistols in the book. I am completely amazed how accurate a reproduction this pistol is.
I like this revolver so much that I bought a 2nd one for a backup. As Rebel Rex so eloquently put it, it has excellent balance and is capable of tight groups at 25 yards.This dance is one of my 4 favorite cap & ball pistols ever. So far, I\u2019ve fired 480 rounds through it without any problems. Boys, I highly recommend this revolver. This is one heck of a deal. I want to thank Cabelas for offering this fine reproduction. I want to thank Pietta for creating this fine reproduction. And I want to thank the author of \u201cDance & Brothers\u201d - Texas gunmakers of the confederacy for all of his fine work and research in writing his book. I\u2019m rating this pistol with 5 gold stars plus.
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2 out of 5
2 out of 5
Abraxas
Age:56-65
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? No
tiny
Date:
pretty revolver, but reproduction is small, suitable for a young teenager's hand
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4 out of 5
4 out of 5
Shenval1864
Location:Winchester, VA
Age:46-55
Gender:Male
Would you recommend this product to a friend? Yes
Good try but not exactly accurate
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Cabella promo states "By the end of the war, Dance and Brothers had produced fewer than 500 revolvers that were basically copies of the Colt Dragoon, but with a flat-sided frame and no semicircular recoil shields behind the cylinder."
This statement is very misleading. Yes they do have the flat-sided frame and no semicircular recoil shields, but the Italian replicas are not based off the Colt Dragoon revolver. They are closer in size to the Colt Army Revolver. I wish they were a clone of the 3rd Model Dragoon, they would be a nicer looking and a far more accurate replica. But otherwise this replica shoots just as good the Colt Army model. Just remember if you are into very accurate period pieces this model isn't for you.
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