Cimarron/Pietta Pistolero 9mm Range Report

[Tallball]

The action is smooth. The trigger is nice. The sights are nicely shaped for SA sights. The "case hardening" colors are attractive. The bluing is nice. The brass grips look great.

The grips are ugly. Not as bad as the picture, but ugly. They seem to be actual wood. Their fit isn't really that good at the edges. You have to look close and I don't really care about that, but it's annoying.

The front sight was too tall. I shot decent groups, but they were very low. Luckily I had a file with me. I started filing the front sight slowly between cylinders, gradually bringing the POI up to the POA.

Then I got some fliers. What? Oh, the cylinder base pin was loose. Started shooting again. Same thing happened again. After messing around with it a bit, the pin kept slipping and I was annoyed, so I put it up and shot my other handguns.

When I got home and examined it, I realized it's not defective, it just has a stupid design. The cylinder base pin has two notches cut in it. One is to hold the base pin in the "regular" position, and there's another one that's farther in to push your base pin closer to the hammer so that it acts as a "safety".

If the notches aren't aligned correctly when you push the base pin in, they won't catch on the spring loaded cylinder pin catch. You have to push the base pin in so that the notches are down, and then it will (theoretically) stay in place. If I'd thought it through more carefully at the range, I would have seen what was going on. But I was getting tired and wanted to shoot other handguns.

I ordered a normal base pin just now, as I intended to do anyway. It just has one "notch", which is a circular groove that goes around the base pin and doesn't have to be aligned any particular way. I tried one from one of my 357 SAA and it worked fine, so that will solve the problem.

I don't like the annoying "safety" base pin, the overly tall front sight, or the ugly grips.

Other than that, it's a nice revolver. My groups were good as long as the base pin was tight. The cylinder handled cheap 9mm range ammo with zero problems (better than my Blackhawk does). Ejection was fine. The trigger is nice. I'll look forward to shooting it next time with a normal base pin and getting the front sight adjusted. It seems like it'll be a real good shooter after that.

I still need to get a decent leather holster for it that doesn't cost a fortune, if anyone has suggestions.

Cimarron Pistolero 9mm

• Tallball
• Jun 20, 2023

 

[Mark_Mark]

The action is smooth. The trigger is nice. The sights are nicely shaped for SA sights. The "case hardening" colors are attractive. The bluing is nice. The brass grips look great.

The grips are ugly. Not as bad as the picture, but ugly. They seem to be actual wood. Their fit isn't really that good at the edges. You have to look close and I don't really care about that, but it's annoying.

The front sight was too tall. I shot decent groups, but they were very low. Luckily I had a file with me. I started filing the front sight slowly between cylinders, gradually bringing the POI up to the POA.

Then I got some fliers. What? Oh, the cylinder base pin was loose. Started shooting again. Same thing happened again. After messing around with it a bit, the pin kept slipping and I was annoyed, so I put it up and shot my other handguns.

When I got home and examined it, I realized it's not defective, it just has a stupid design. The cylinder base pin has two notches cut in it. One is to hold the base pin in the "regular" position, and there's another one that's farther in to push your base pin closer to the hammer so that it acts as a "safety".

If the notches aren't aligned correctly when you push the base pin in, they won't catch on the spring loaded cylinder pin catch. You have to push the base pin in so that the notches are down, and then it will (theoretically) stay in place. If I'd thought it through more carefully at the range, I would have seen what was going on. But I was getting tired and wanted to shoot other handguns.

I ordered a normal base pin just now, as I intended to do anyway. It just has one "notch", which is a circular groove that goes around the base pin and doesn't have to be aligned any particular way. I tried one from one of my 357 SAA and it worked fine, so that will solve the problem.

I don't like the annoying "safety" base pin, the overly tall front sight, or the ugly grips.

Other than that, it's a nice revolver. My groups were good as long as the base pin was tight. The cylinder handled cheap 9mm range ammo with zero problems (better than my Blackhawk does). Ejection was fine. The trigger is nice. I'll look forward to shooting it next time with a normal base pin and getting the front sight adjusted. It seems like it'll be a real good shooter after that.

I still need to get a decent leather holster for it that doesn't cost a fortune, if anyone has suggestions.

Cimarron Pistolero 9mm

• Tallball
• Jun 20, 2023

is this made by Pietta with the 4 clicks? Uberti has a floating firepin with a lever built inside the hammer.

 

[Mark_Mark]

I have not had a chance to take my 9mm/357 brass trigger out yet. But will definitely post a range report, we can compare

 

[.45Coltguy]

Tallball, where do you order the single notch basepin from? As for a pretty simple, good leather holster, look at Hunter holsters, #1100 48. It works perfect for my Pietta or Uberti[1873 models].

 

[Tallball]

@Mark_Mark This new 9mm one is a Pietta with four clicks. It has a deformed base pin as a "safety", which will be replaced as soon as the new one arrives. (My 357 is a Uberti with four clicks and no "safety".)

@.45Coltguy Numrich had one under their Pietta parts. It didn't say "used", so I assume it's new. The picture had just the one circular groove, like my Uberti.