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The description "NOT REGULATED" posted here is not quite accurate. "SIMI-REGULATED" means the rifle barrel sets was soldered together in a jig. This sometimes works perfectly, and sometimes not. Even when it doesn't work perfectly, it is closer than simply soldering them side by side! I own a couple of Pedersolis, and have fired several others, both with factory chamberings, and re-chambered ones, and I've found them to never be far off tight regulation. Of course I simply could have been lucky! My first one was a Trail Guns Armory Pedersoli Kodiak 45-70 that was the 134th rifle made. It was ordered two years before they were available to the public. It cost $900 USD. It regulated both barrels in a 2" group @ 100 yds with Winchester 350 gr ammo, and placed the bullets the same with my Ruger No 1 load that was fairly hot, in the same group with 400 gr bullets. That rifle was re-chambered to 458 RCBS, and full house loads still print 2" groups at 100 yds! The widest group I've experienced with a Pedersoli is 4 1/2" for four shots at 100 yds with 400 gr bullets in handloads, but factory ammo shot to point of aim,and a little tighter, with a group 1" less in size.

The barrels are left quite heavy, and that is one reason the rifles shoot fairly well with the barrels soldered in a jig, the front weight dampens the muzzle flip some what. They are hard to re-regulate, because they are Silver Brazed together, not soft soldered.

The newer ones are better finished than the old origenals. These rifles were commisioned by the late Col. Mike Powasnic, owner of the now defunct TRAIL GUNS ARMORY of League City, Texas, back in the early 80s. The rifles are a replica of the 1878 Colt double rifle.

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