New Products From Cimarron Arms

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mashburn posted this 29 October 2020

Hello to all,

I just drove over, this afternoon, to a friend of mine, who is the owner and operator of Fenris Wolfe Arms. He has been experimenting and building cartridge conversions for black powder revolvers for years and has developed some very nice conversions. His main business is  building custom single shot rifles, based on his own actions. In addition he is constantly designing and working with something new that is firearms related.

He has designed two new cartridge conversions for Cimarron Arms. They are patenting them under his name and they have agreed on a royalty for each sold .He has built a proto-type for the .36 caliber Colt Navy. It fires a .38 Colt short cartridge. He has also built a prototype conversion for the 1858 Remington that fires .45 Colt. He left them in the white until I got to examine them and was taking them out in the shop to blue as I was leaving. He is shipping complete revolvers with the conversions intact to Cimarron tomorrow. The Navy Conversion prototype that he sent was on one of the Colt's that Colt reintroduced in the early 70's, and was that a real cutie. If the fit on the revolvers that Cimarron are bringing in from across the pond are anywhere near like the prototypes that he is sending  them, they will be one fine revolver. I just hope that the Italians don't decide to change the conversion plate. Let's hope not because it is a fine piece of craftsmanship.

Both of these conversions were super nice and looked like they belonged on the revolvers. I liked both but I fell in love with the 58 Remington. He had an extra stainless 58 Remington laying around and you guessed it, I bought it and an extra cylinder. That's all I need at the time is another project, but I couldn't resist.

Cimarron is going to have these conversions on the market very quickly and they will be a revolver with both cylinders, black powder and cartridge These conversions are all together different than what you normally see, the ones with 6 firing pins. His version has only 1 firing pin.  I understand that his version will be much cheaper than what is available from  other sources.

Jim has been making conversions for years ,some converted strictly to cartridge and others for both cylinders. One of his most unusual was a Colt Walker for which he not only made the conversion but made cases from shortened .444 Marlin cases.. And speaking of other projects, I have a Walker Colt laying around here waiting on something to do. All of you people with these kind of interest be sure and keep an eye on Cimarron's new products

The recoil plate on this conversion does not attach by a pin, it does not rotate. That is why it only has to have one firing pin. When you remove the cylinder to reload the plate stays in and the cylinder comes out by itself..

Mashburn

David a. Cogburn

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BigMan54 posted this 29 October 2020

I will very much look forward to seeing them.

But do they follow a period conversion or are they a totally new type ? 

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mashburn posted this 29 October 2020

They basically look the same but are easier to take in and out for reloading and don't have the 6 firing pins that are bad to get loose when firing. The single firing pin set up  is neat. They don't have the pin that you had to get lined up on the present ones because the plate behind the cylinder doesn't rotate, it sets still and that is what enables the conversion to have only one firing pin. The recoil plate stays in the revolver when you pull the cylinder to reload. This setup is very user friendly. You just pull the cylinder out and stick it back in. I'm sure you will be impressed.

Mashburn

David a. Cogburn

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Ed Harris posted this 08 November 2020

Sounds like the Walt Kirst conversions.  I have one of his in .45 ACP for my Ruger Old Army.

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