Non saftey uberti 1875 hammer?

Galloway · March 10, 2009, 07:20:41 AM

Does anyone know a source of a uberti outlaw hammer without the saftey on it? VTI doesnt have one. Will and original work I wonder? Thanks

Fox Creek Kid · March 13, 2009, 03:47:25 AM

You'd have to find an early Uberti '75 to "part out" and Uberti has changed the specs on the '75 at least once. As for an original hammer I don't know if it would fit but finding an original hammer will be about as easy as finding an NRA Life Member in Obama's Cabinet.

I've never seen an original for sale.

Long Johns Wolf · March 13, 2009, 03:53:58 AM

My Uberti 75 from 1972 has the infamous safety device on the hammer. Since mine has a 2 digit S/N it might imply that no Uberti 75 hammers without that device were ever made.
Long Johns Wolf

Galloway · March 13, 2009, 11:31:21 AM

Well that sucks. Maybe cimarron will offer them in the future.

Flint · March 13, 2009, 12:30:35 PM

I've never had a problem with the Uberti hammer safety interfering with shooting, and it's on most of the Uberti guns I have. If it is a problem, remove it, you could even fill the top hole with the screw once the little parts are out of it.

Pettifogger · March 13, 2009, 01:07:54 PM

The Uberti hammer safety only works on the half-cock notch. I was all upset over them, took them out and then put them back in. The reason? If you are shooting fast and your thumb slips off the hammer and you have a short stroke, the half-cock will frequently catch the hammer and you can recock without having to go all the way around the cylinder to fire the round. (This is why a lot of people change their Rugers so they have a half-cock.) A weak point in the old-style Colts and Remingtons with the half-cock is that the notch itself is fairly weak and they can break off. The little plunger in the half-cock cushions the hammer if it slips and falls into the half-cock notch. So, since it doesn't interfere with the trigger pull, I just left it in.

Harley Starr · March 14, 2009, 01:27:04 AM

Quote from: Galloway on March 13, 2009, 11:31:21 AM
Well that sucks. Maybe cimarron will offer them in the future.

That would be nice, especially since they are offering the 1858.

Flint · March 14, 2009, 04:31:13 PM

Our basic problem is the import regulation that all guns must have a safety, even on the guns that functioned with no problems for over 100 years. Note the safety on the Winchester 92, as imported, and the Marlin, which is complying even though American made.

Uberti removed the hammer safety from the SAA only after adding the double notched long cylinder pin that used to be on the ASM guns. Actually, the hammer safety is far more practical, but the manufacturing is more expensive, and the safety, usless as it is on the cylinder pin, can be defeated by the shooter by shortening the cylinder pin, or replacing it.

Unfortunately, the double notched cylinder pin won't work on the Remington, as the pin is already almost to the muzzle as it is.

We certainly don't want to see buttons or knobs added to the receiver.....

Other than removing the parts and welding up the holes left behind, you are stuck with the Uberti hammer safety, which doesn't bother me particularly, nor Pettifogger, from his comment.

When Bill Ruger first met Aldo Uberti, he remarked something like, "So you're the man that invented a safety for the single action". I think he was impressed with the accomplishment.