Rossi Rifleman

Probably not a good time to be looking at a new caliber, but there's a Uberiti SA in 44/40 0n the shelf at a local big box type store, used for $598. Any body got comments about these good or bad I'd like to hear.

Make smoke,

I'm no SA expert but I have found some vids I found interesting.
In particular this guy has a couple vids showing detailed differences between the various guns.
Standard vs other Single Actions--details atlanticproducts

Standard Mfg. SA at the Range


Hickok45 has several vids on the Uberti SA guns. He can make anything sound pretty good.

Urberti has been producing guns for some time and in a number of different grades a few years ago a lot of Urberti guns were marketed by Cimmeron. I'm not sure if that's still the case or not.

I've got a Uberti SA in 357 Mag and it runs like a champ. Shoots accurately enough to sometimes hit clay pigeons sitting on the 50 yard berm. The color case hardening is nice too.

I have a Uberti Cimarron Evil Roy 5.5" in .45 Colt. It's my favorite "not old" gun.



Be aware that .44-40 is an odd duck, diameters can range from .429" all the way to .435". Might take a while finding a bullet to fit well and if you ever get a companion rifle, chances are slim it will like the same bullet.

I learned all this recently from Ranch Dog when my friend was looking at one like you mention in the first post.

Thanks guys

I have several Uberti revolvers by several importers. No real problems to justify not ever buying one again. Actually, juts the opposite. They are great!!!

357, 45, 44 magnum and of course, 44-40

Had some fun with it just the other day...
VIDEO - [BBvideo 560,340][/BBvideo]

Two Uberti - one is 3.5 birdshead .45 Colt, the other is 4.5 .44 Soecial. The first was not faultless, as the auto safety did not work. Also was iffy on the .44 plus very minor cyl. hand issue. Both changed to 4-click hammer which resolved all issues.

Can ya tell this is no safe queen? Handled it nearly every day for the past 13 years

Uberti, imported by Stoger

I have a love-hate relationship with Stoger...

Yah. They've had a long and sometimes troubled past. I recall the "Stoeger Luger" .22LRs which were Zamac framed, made by RG (and maybe others) and were generally terrible. That had to be the late 60's early 70's. We used to go to Leslie Edelman's in Farmingdale NY, and drool over those things. It was a no brainer, my little sisters used to hand with mom at "Adventurer's" amusement park, and dad and I would go to Edelman's right next door. Glad to have escaped that locale, many decades ago.

On the udder hand, my Stoeger/Uberti "Cat-Bird" (or is it Bird-Cat) Cattleman/Birdshead, is far better fit than my Cimarron/Uberti .44. The trigger guard and back strap of the Stoeger import are totally without fault. You can't run a fingernail over a seam and feel the transition of frame to screwed on piece. There's a very, very timy uneven ledge on the Cimarron. The grip fit on the Cimarron is terrible, and I will have to replace 'em as they're too small for the backstrap (gaps of metal edge are proud of the grip). Individual guns vary of course. The Stoeger was sold to me as a "Cimarron" by a major online retailer, but in fact it was a Stoeger. I don't give a crap. The .44 Cimarron has nicer barrel engraving (laser, but nicely done) than the stampings of the Stoeger. The .44 had been fooled with by Cimarron, and its mainspring had been "tuned" (aka hacked by Bubba his-self), as well as the trigger spring "flattened", but the safety in the hammer did in fact work (mostly). The Stoeger's hammer safety did not work reliably and it would mis-fire, kicking the trigger forward because the plunger would not plunge, and would not move the firing pin forward. The Firing pin's rear surface got in the way because there was almost no "angle" cut on it. As I said, changing those to 4-click totally solved all issues, including the vary tight hand on the .44, which would "just" allow the hammer to be drawn all the way to the rear. IOW, it locked the cylinder earlier than it should have, while the hand was still pushing. Slight variation in hand pivot locations from hammer to hammer fixed it I guess.

Stoeger has just been "shady" to me. No parts ever available - "we're the importer, please contact the manufacturer" is what I was once told back in my gun range days. That was the 90's tho, so things might have gotten better, dunno