The Uberti Schofield

[balin]

The frame reminds me a bit of a Bisley. Anyone find them to be Busley like when they are shooting them

 

[Glenn R. McMannly]

Owned a Baretta made Umberti once. Fine pistol.

 

[old tanker]

I've heard these Ubertis bind up with black powder (design differed from originals).

Any truth to this?

That combined with all the horror stories of awful customer service (I've had bad from Uberti myself in fact) plus lousy QC make this a hard ask for the $$$ these command.

But they're nifty and pretty for sure. I imagine they're much faster to get back into the fight than a SAA for reloading.

Yes, the reproductions do not like black powder. When they lengthened the cylinders to accept the 45 Colt and 44 Special it became much easier for the fouling to bind up the cylinder. Both my reproduction Schofield and Russian dislike black powder while my original S&W Russian is more tolerant. It is still not wonderful, more akin to a Remington New Model Army than an old Colt.

Model 3 Russians produced for the domestic commercial market, more or less 140 years ago. So black powder is all it sees.

The seven inch barrel has the standard Smith & Wesson legend in English, not Cyrillic.

 

[.357magger]

The frame reminds me a bit of a Bisley. Anyone find them to be Busley like when they are shooting them

Kind of a mix between a Bisley and a SAA.

It's solid in the hand, but it does roll upward moderately on recoil. Different than the SAA though.

I realize that's ambiguous, but it's a unique to the Schofield feeling.

 

[balin]

Kind of a mix between a Bisley and a SAA.

It's solid in the hand, but it does roll upward moderately on recoil. Different than the SAA though.

I realize that's ambiguous, but it's a unique to the Schofield feeling.

Thanks. I find Bisleys with heavy loads such as in my 454 are not to my liking. I am looking at getting a Schofield but in .38 so I am guessing it will be a little more to my liking

 

[.357magger]

Thanks. I find Bisleys with heavy loads such as in my 454 are not to my liking. I am looking at getting a Schofield but in .38 so I am guessing it will be a little more to my liking

Going with 38 Special would work but...the pressure or recoil from 45 Colt "Cowboy Loads" averaging 750-800 fps are not even remotely prohibitive.

They're *****cats coming out of my Schofield and VERY pleasant to shoot.

Just my $.02.

 

[Rodan]

Got the Schofield out to the range last week. Only fired a few rounds, as I was having some issues with light strikes. I started with a two handed hold off the bench (shooting over my Garmin chronograph)... these are the six shots in the lower grouping. Then I went to a traditional one-hand target stance, and the POI came up to center for all the remaining shots. All shots at 10 yards with a center hold. Pleased with the results considering the imprecise nature of these sights. Now I just need to deal with the light strikes.

 

[jeffrefrig]

I can only give Uberti info from me. They are good guns, well, mine was, but it was a Uberti Cattleman. .45 Colt. Bought it. under $100. I had to file the front sight down to get it to shoot point of aim. But the Uberti treated me well for a while. It's gone...$300!

 

[TIMETRIPPER]

I can only give Uberti info from me. They are good guns, well, mine was, but it was a Uberti Cattleman. .45 Colt. Bought it. under $100. I had to file the front sight down to get it to shoot point of aim. But the Uberti treated me well for a while. It's gone...$300!

I had to to the same with an Uberti SSA 32-20 revolver. I think the barrel and sight was same as a 45 Colt except for the hole in the barrel. It was a heavy revolver.

John