cimmeron 44 russian

BigBill

Absent Comrade
Joined
Jan 29, 2011
Messages
13,869
Reaction score
13,353
Location
Planet earth
I'm ready to jump off the s&w ship to cimmeron guns. They offer the revolver in 44 Russian and a schofield in 45 long colt and a nice little doc holiday 45 long colt. Does anyone have a cimmeron gun?
Any thoughts???
 
Register to hide this ad
I'm not up on the brand. Cimarron imported some Ubertis years back, and they were just fine.

Cimarron11oct0060001yyy.jpg
 
I have a couple but outside of shooting them only once or twice I havent gave them a hard enough workout to give a honest opinion. The guns appear to be well fitted. One is a siver plated fully engraved General patton that I wont shoot. I have shot my dual cylinder "Thunderer" in .45 colt and .45 acp. No problems but I havent shot it that much.



 
I have a Cimarron/Uberti Model 1872 Colt "Man With No Name" revolver. The revolver is an 1851 Colt Navy with a loading gate and no ejector rod. Fires 38 Special ammo. A "replica" of the firing scene gun used by Blondie in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. I purchased it because I love the lines of the 1851 Colt and the idea of shooting clean smokeless powder ammo. The loading lever is segmented to allow the use of the tip to poke out the empties. I just use a pen!
The fit and finish of the gun is absolutely superb. 3LB trigger with just a hint of creep.
I've looked at the 45 Colt Schofield model and it is a beautiful gun. If they would make one in 44 Special I might have to buy it.
 
Last edited:
I have a Cimmaron/Uberti but it's a 1872 Open-Top in 44special.
I really like the revolver. I bought it used, but it looked about unfired in the box.
It took a bit of work to get it to where I would say it should have been when it left the factory.
The firing pin which is on the hammer on these is very long and slender. It would pierce the primers on 8 out of 10 cartidges first time out with it.
Shortening it and blunting it solved that.

The other main problem was the bolt/trigger spring. Same set up as the SAA. A flat two leaf spring to power the bolt and the trigger. It was so heavy that it actually made the bolt fall from the cam on the hammer early and mimic an extra cocking notch in the hammer.
There're only 2 notches/clicks in the open-top hammer,,half (loading) and full. This one had an extra one when the bolt fell early just before the half cock.

A replacement (wire) spring solved that problem and made for a very smooth action after some removal of slight burrs that were statrting to form from the over powered spring action.

I did smooth up the loading gate so the open & close action didn't take so much effort.
The ejector rob would hang up going around a corners of sort at the front of the ejector rod tube so smoothing out those angles fixed that up.
These last two small problems are common to the Cimmaron Open Tops I'm told.

Very tight lock up. No end shake nor rotational movement. Excellent trigger pull w/o any work done to it.

That's been my experience w/ Cimmaron.
I like the revolver and still have it. It's a favorite shooter of mine.
 
I have one in 357. Model P. Heavy and no issues except its not a 44.
 
I have a pair of Umberti #3 Russians in 44 Russian. The are well fit and shoot great with Trail Boss loads . Dad had a 5 shot group at 20 yards that was 1", he complained about the small sights the whole time he was shooting. They are difficult to shoot one handed (unless you have 6" thumbs) without letting the recoil take the muzzle up to 90 degrees, which violates the SASS 170 rule. I have pearl and wood grips, but shoot in the wood grips only. Ivan
 
Hey BigBill, thanks to you I finally found the gun I want on Cimmerons site. They have a replica Colt Walker for around $460.00 list. My dealer usually knocks a few bucks off list.
Maybe I'll get to play Josie Wales after all. :)
 
I'm jonesin' for one those Eye-talian Schofields, man are they sweet looking, and I hear they shoot well too.
 
Back
Top