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shooting on a shoestring
Michael J. My Uberti is a prewar type with the traverse cross pin to retain the cylinder arbor.
Also, I have 3 third gen Colts. I am happy with all of them. I bought the Uberti because it was in 44-40 and I wanted the caliber. Colts in 44-40 are hard to fine and harder to buy. So I grabbed the Uberti. It’s a fine gun. The bluing is good but the color case hardening is faux. Its dimensions for barrel cylinder gap, chamber throats and groove diameters were all better than I was expecting. It was “tuned” from the factory and has a very nice action and is very lightly sprung. In fact I wish it had a bit more power in its main spring and may change that at some point. I have had a couple of light strikes when it was fairly dirty from firing.
I get that you’re not into spending 3x more money for a Colt. But I have no regrets. Mine have been/are great. Only knock on them is their main springs were too heavy and I lightened 2 of them by thinning and polishing. If CZ gets back into making new SAA’s I’ll probably have to have one.
What caliber are you looking to get?