Most of my Cowboy guns are Rugers, but lately i have been looking at the Rooster shooter from Cimarron. I would buy it in 357, so i was wondering I have seen some of the guns rom Cimarron with the warning not to shoot plus Ps in them mostly the open tops.


My plan is to shoot standard pressure 38/357 loads through them, my concern is that I don't want to be restricted to the just the cowboy loads. So my question is has anyone here had any experience with the Cimarron guns?

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Stan

IIRC, they are built by Uberti, but finished a bit better. Perfectly safe with .357s if that is the chambering.

I've owned a .44 Special, a .32-20, and a Model P Jr in .32-20/.32 Magnum. All were good shooters.

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Cool I figure to buy one after the first of the year, I don't plan beating it to death mostly 38 specials but would like to fire factory 357 out of it.

I have one of their 1851 conversions in 38 special that I only use the cowboy loads in and it is a neat gun.

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I love my Cimarrons, and have a pair in .357 magnum. Having said that, I only shoot .38 specials through them. I have put an occasional .357 mag through them, but it is done very infrequently. The design itself was not made for magnum loads in 1873. If I wanted to feed a single action a steady diet of magnum loads, it would be a Ruger or a Freedon Arms. The double action guns ( models 640-1, 28-2, and the Ruger GP-100) get shot a lot with magnum loads.

I am sure that the Uberti's will handle the mag loads occasionally, but I wouldn't do it regularly. The Rugers, and Freedom Arms single action six shooters will handle them with ease all day long.

WG840

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I've had 2 Cimarron Thunderers. Both blue 3.5" barrel, seriously beautiful, well fit SA revolvers.

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A Uberti SAA is a pretty close copy of a Colt. And they've been chambered for, and handling .357mags since before WW2.