I always wanted a 1873 Winchester after shooting a friends original 1873, but at $1200.00 + for a uberti I didn’t think I would buy one. Stopped at a shop north of my place about 3 weeks ago they had a used uberti 1873 24 inch bbl in 44-40 asking price $599.00 talked them down to $550.00 and bought it, it has a few small dings in the fore arm and a small rust spot on the left side of the bbl, still it has great bluing and case hardening. Shot it using factory ammo from magtech, shoots great but at $45.00 a box I knew it was time to buy dies and use molds I already have. bought a set advertised as new on ebay when I got them the seating die was missing, so I emailed the guy, no response yet. Today the wife and I went to a flea market and a guy had a set of new RCBS 44-40 dies he was asking $40.00 looked them over and could see they where never used, clean as could be, got them for $25.00 get home to find out the threads on the resizing die are boogied up and didn’t want to go into the press (think I can fix them with a small file). With the two die sets I am loading and think I am going to enjoy this rifle.