Uberti/Cimmeron/Buffalo Man With No Name: True .38 or True Convert?

Megabutter · August 28, 2011, 03:16:03 PM

Any owners of the "Man w/ No Name" .38 Conversion confirm whether that pistol was built for .38 Colt from the ground up (bore and such) or is a true .36 Ball Convert?

Thanks in advance gents.

Fingers McGee · August 28, 2011, 05:41:29 PM

Ground up built for 38 special.

Megabutter · August 28, 2011, 08:00:56 PM

Fantastic! Thanks for you're reply, I appreciate it.

An authentic looking '51 Navy shooting .38 without the hollow bottom bullet or other conversion concerns. That is great. I'll post pic's when I get mine!!

Pettifogger · August 28, 2011, 10:35:36 PM

Don't know why Cimmarron calls it a "conversion." It's not really a conversion as there is no adapter ring. More of a 72 open top with an octagon barrel. In any event, it's a fun good looking gun.

Fingers McGee · August 28, 2011, 10:40:18 PM

Quote from: Pettifogger on August 28, 2011, 10:35:36 PM
Don't know why Cimmarron calls it a "conversion." It's not really a conversion as there is no adapter ring. More of a 72 open top with an octagon barrel. In any event, it's a fun good looking gun.

And they're pretty good in CAS competition. I've been using mine off and on for the past couple years alternating with my 1861 Navies.

Abilene · August 28, 2011, 10:48:14 PM

The MWNN is made with a '71 Opentop frame instead of a '51 frame because that's the way the original movie gun was made. And I guess that means the movie gun was made with a pretty rare frame since replica OT's didn't exist back then. The MWNN snake inlays were also, for the first months it was available, made and inlaid by the same guy that did Clint's movie guns years ago. But he's pretty old now and slow and some of his work was kind of sloppy so now the grips are laser cut for the snake.

Fox Creek Kid · August 28, 2011, 10:54:05 PM

Quote from: Abilene on August 28, 2011, 10:48:14 PM...because that's the way the original movie gun was made...

What are you basing that on? I always thought it was merely a new cylinder, albeit movie prop, on a '51 Navy.

Abilene · August 28, 2011, 11:59:36 PM

Quote from: Fox Creek Kid on August 28, 2011, 10:54:05 PM

What are you basing that on? I always thought it was merely a new cylinder, albeit movie prop, on a '51 Navy.

Well, I first heard it from Mike Harvey. But if you watch the scene where he is cleaning the gun in the hotel room and hears spurs approaching his door, the hammer slot in the frame is like an OT, plus no rear sight notch in the hammer. (and as we all know, Blondie don't need no stinkin' sights

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Coffinmaker · August 30, 2011, 09:14:43 AM

Regardless of what the movie gun was built on/from, the Cimarron MWNN is built on an Open Top frame with an Octagonal barrel that has an included rear sight.
Real fun gun to play with too.

Coffinmaker