The 1858 Remington Forum

Certainly.
Mine is an old original. Picked it up in Britain as a "deactivated" firearm,which basically ment they had drilled into and welded all over.
So what emerged was an 1858 with the frame cut back 22mm at the barrel face,sporting a 3" barrel and in turn a birds head grip. Kind of a really "old school" 44 special of sorts.
(There´s actually a thread on the gun a good while back on here)
Weight all said and done just shy of 1 kg.

Keep the gun to this day. As a large frame revolver the thing is very portable and more feels and handles like a "modern" gun from that aspect.

As i got the gun the rear of the frame opening for the cylinder had been squared. Most likely as it had been modified to a cartridge gun.
Well. That turned out to be an issue as them squared off bits kept having caps seize the action. Thus..the pic where i welded that up per original and since..the friggin thing is nothing short of a locomotive. Shoot to hearts content...
Load the thing off gun,on a loading stand.

Like NE i was kind of amazed as i chronoed the thing and realized that muzzle velocity was down it wasn´t even funny (like 50%). A quick change for Triple 7 put a stop to that though,as noted,and muzzle velocity was right up there again.

At the range,to carry the thing around,it turns out a regular shoulder holster for a 1911 works just great. (picture)

Shooting the thing she´s accurate enough,no worries. Mind you most of my shooting i do at 25 meters,albeit i´ve of course played around with the thing close quarters extensively too.

Would i do anything different? Well,i´ve actually made two and they are dead ringers. To the letter,so the answer to that Q would be a big no. Reduction in frame,absolutely.

Velocitys with T7 and RB is atop 900fps. No worries what so ever. Haven´t with this gun but will eventually come around to try it out with 220 grain ogives too. Packs plenty punch already as is though if you ask me.
But i´d say the use of T7 is a downright requirement with barrels this short on BP revolvers. At least if performance is anywhere close to the name of the game.
Most likely i´ll see less of a performance drop with the 220 grainers due their larger "resistance".

Nice gun all said and done,but..hafta build it yourself. 

to answer your questions

1. i dont know, i dont have a chrono

2. much less!!!

3. yes!

4. absolutely!!!

5.none, i like it the way it is!!!!

Not sure yet Hawg. Probably around the $350 range. I could have bought a bunch more, just unsure of that market. They are plenty expensive to fire, but at least you can. This one was just too nice to pass up.