Friend is into cowboy action shooting.

He asked me to try an locate a low price shooter S&W top Break. He asked about 32 S&W and 38 S&W top breaks. Mentioned that I suspected that there might be reproductions of some of the earlier and larger top breaks at affordable prices.

Posting in this form first. If no leads will move it to the Lounge over the weekend.

Thanks for any help,

Bekeart

Buffalo Arms is one seller of Uberti made reproductions of the Schofield and other top breaks. I have a Schofield and it shoots quite well but required a bit of work to eliminate the hammer drag on the frame. Price is in the $750 range.

I'm not aware of any reproduction top-breaks in the .32 or .28 S&W chambering. Why would there be? There are many of the real thing available at reasonable prices. The later production models are perfectly safe to shoot with regular commercial loads and will handle CAS loads without any problems.

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Dean
SWCA #680 SWHF #446

I agree the originals are far cheaper than the reproductions although unless you know exactly when it was made, i.e. post-smokeless powder upgrades to better steels, shooting black powder or equivalent loads would be essential for safety.

Smith & Wesson made Schofields and Russians again a few years ago and the gunsmiths tell me those were the best, but in the $1100-1500 range new if I recall. Uberti's been making reproductions before and after that of the Schofield and Russian but I'm told there are internal and external differences from the originals and new as Uberti/Beretta Laramie/Cimarron/NavyArms etc. (same factory) they've been in the $950-1350 range when I've seen them priced. I've seen originals of those models as little as $650-900 (two weeks ago at the local gun show.)

They're more complex than a Colt 1873 and have a considerably smaller market demand since they weren't used in thousands of Western movies and television shows, all adds up to a considerably higher price. Unless you're shooting smokeless, buy the originals.