My new cimarron 1851 richards-mason conversions

[Ghostdevilguy]

After getting a cimarron 1873 trapper in 357, I started hunting for which revolvers I wanted to use. I've always been a huge fan of the 7.5" barrels, and I love the way the open tops and conversions look. I settled on these, a beautiful set of 1851 conversions. They aren't consecutive serial numbers, however, they are 115 numbers apart from each other!

In the weeks of doing my research on these and a previous experience with an 1872 open top that had an extremely short arbor, that was the cause of my hesitation. and deciding if wanted to spend the time and money fixing that as well as tuning them, and eventually having them engraved and nickel plated. After seeing a few people saying that Uberti has gotten better about arbor length, I decided to take a chance. I'm happy to say, both are a lot better than any previous uberti I've handled. Both were made in 2023. The arbor slightly short, but only by the width of a hair or two. It's the same for both.

This morning I tore them apart and did some initial polishing and it smoothed things out nicely! The next step will be a spring kit for both.

Both handle well, and point naturally, the action was smooth out of the box, with very slight grit in places. Lockup on both is tight, it's on par with my no dash 586, actually I'd say it's better, but that's probably due to age. Timing on both is spot on.

Overall, I'm happy with my purchase, and these will be the perfect start for my competition guns.




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[Abilene]

I think you will be very pleased with them.  I have had these since 2001. Stripped the Urethane finish and gave them an oil finish. Shot them as a pair for a couple thousand rounds.  Now one of them has a 4 3/4" barrel and is paired with another 4 3/4" nickled '51 and has 7500 rounds through it.  The 7 1/2" gun is now paired with a 7 1/2" '61 conversion.

edit: I just noticed that you posted this in the SAA clones forum and also in STORM, which is where it belongs.  Pretend like this response is in STORM. 

[Ghostdevilguy]

I mean to delete the one in the SAA fourm, I relazed it was in the wrong place and went to move it. Sorry Mods for making your job a little more difficult 😅🤣

Thanks for the response!