uberti 1873 brass frame

[Probie]

i am looking at some uberti 1873 cattleman in 45lc but the very bottem of the frame and the backstrap are brass, how sturdy are these pistols?

[Abilene]

The less expensive Cattleman have the brass gripframe, and it holds up just as well as a steel gripframe.  The rest of the gun is the same as other Cattleman revolvers.  If the gun is old enough to have leaf spring for the hand then that will be the weakest point of the gun.  Most newer guns have a coil spring for the hand.  If it does have a coil hand spring, the weakest point will be the Italian trigger/bolt spring, but that is easily changed.  The brass gripframe is not historically authentic for the Colt SAA, but a lot of people like them.