[burnse]

I can't seem to find the uberti cattleman bird's head anywhere. Where can I find em? And also, if anyone knows anything about them, is the only difference between the old and new models that the om has a thumbscrew for the cylinder base pin?

[Gunfighter123]

Hiya B,
The "thumbscrew" is generally called a Black Powder Frame --- then they came up with the spring loaded base pin button. I have a pair of Uberti Thunderers -- you are looking for Birdsheads and not Thunderers ??

[Omaney]

Try Cimarron, they're made by Uberti. I had an Artillery model and liked it...except I can't hit the broad side of a barn with a SAA.

[RenardSubtil]

Is it possible it's been renamed and placed into the Beretta Stampede line since Beretta owns Uberti now?

I actually recently bought a Beretta Stampede Marshall (birdshead grip) after hunting around for one - the only other model I found offered out there "new" (in production) during my search was the Ruger line.

[burnse]

I thought the stampede marshall had a "thunderer" style grip frame and not a traditional bird's head? Would perhaps the aftermarket BH grip frame from Brownell's, the one intended for a new model vaquero, fit on the uberti?

[rcmodel]

http://www.cimarron-firearms.com/Specialty/ThundererStd.htm

http://www.cimarron-firearms.com/Specialty/Lightning.htm#

rcmodel

[Bigger is Better]

Since his birth the Uberti manufacture was into economic orbit of Beretta (a sort of "Beretta branch office"), like FB (or Effebi), Fabarm, Pedersoli, recently F.lli Pietta (but only in the last years) and Bernardelli, and others: in fact all those manufactures have production factories in Gardone Val Trompia (Brescia, Lombardia, Italy), the same locality which Beretta has headquarters in. Since few years each Italian handgun maker have to do the accounts with "The Giant" Beretta S.p.a. :cuss:

Curiosity, guys: in America are imported F.lli Pietta replicas (SAA, 1873, Navy, Dragoon, Open Top)? If they are, I suggest you much more than Uberti's: much higher steel quality made, more accurate work inside the barrel=more accuracy, equal finish grade (until three or four years later Uberti made better finish work, but now there's no more difference) , lower price. ;)