Sorry no pics yet but the end of the saga of the in-operative Schofield Russian has finally come to and end.
After sending the Russian back to Stoeger in Maryland for repair around the first week in November I called to check the status of my gun. I was told that it was unrepairable and was destroyed, not exactly what I wanted to hear. I was assured that they would send me a replacement directly as soon as they became available, sometime in February!!
So...we did a little negotiation. The Schofield which I wanted in the first place was a Model 3 in 44-40 but I couldn't find one within my budget. Uberti customer service informed me that they had "One" in that configuration but that it would have to be sent to an FFL because it was different from the gun which I had sent them. My response, "Who Cares, send the thing!!" I supplied them with the name, address and phone of an FFL, which happened to be the shop that I had purchased the Russian from. The shop even graciously agreed to waive their paperwork fee. Big of them for a waranty replacement on a gun they sold in the first place don't ya think??
Anyway, so the shop has been notified in person and the new Schofield is enroute during the Christmas rush from Maryland to Arizona, what could go wrong!! As Bill Cosby once said, "Never challenge worse!"
On the appointed day that the Big Brown Truck was to arrive at the gun shop, I made a phone call to see if indeed the package had arrived. I was assured that it had but...since they didn't know who it belonged to they refused it!! It's not like it was a Taurus or a Glock for cryin' out load!! It's a Schofield, how many of these things to even gun shops see?? Not only that, the guy I was talking to was the same person that I had spoken to in person not five days previous and informed him of the plan. So once again I'm on the phone to Uberti customer service, this time explaining to somebody in Maryland that the gunshop that I had them send my gun to might have done pre-employment drug testing, but it had obviously not required potential employees to pass an I.Q. test!!
I've got to say this, Uberti/Stoeger customer service is TOP NOTCH!! Kelly the young lady I spoke to made the decision that since the paperwork on both guns said "Scofield" that the feds wouldn't mind if they sent it directly back to me and skipped the mentally incompetent middleman with the FFL license. Uberti/Stoeger was fantastic to deal with all the way around during this whole ordeal and I would highly recommend their product based solely on that.
Now all I have to do is work the bugs out of loading 44-40 Black Powder cartridges and we're set.
After sending the Russian back to Stoeger in Maryland for repair around the first week in November I called to check the status of my gun. I was told that it was unrepairable and was destroyed, not exactly what I wanted to hear. I was assured that they would send me a replacement directly as soon as they became available, sometime in February!!
So...we did a little negotiation. The Schofield which I wanted in the first place was a Model 3 in 44-40 but I couldn't find one within my budget. Uberti customer service informed me that they had "One" in that configuration but that it would have to be sent to an FFL because it was different from the gun which I had sent them. My response, "Who Cares, send the thing!!" I supplied them with the name, address and phone of an FFL, which happened to be the shop that I had purchased the Russian from. The shop even graciously agreed to waive their paperwork fee. Big of them for a waranty replacement on a gun they sold in the first place don't ya think??
Anyway, so the shop has been notified in person and the new Schofield is enroute during the Christmas rush from Maryland to Arizona, what could go wrong!! As Bill Cosby once said, "Never challenge worse!"
On the appointed day that the Big Brown Truck was to arrive at the gun shop, I made a phone call to see if indeed the package had arrived. I was assured that it had but...since they didn't know who it belonged to they refused it!! It's not like it was a Taurus or a Glock for cryin' out load!! It's a Schofield, how many of these things to even gun shops see?? Not only that, the guy I was talking to was the same person that I had spoken to in person not five days previous and informed him of the plan. So once again I'm on the phone to Uberti customer service, this time explaining to somebody in Maryland that the gunshop that I had them send my gun to might have done pre-employment drug testing, but it had obviously not required potential employees to pass an I.Q. test!!
I've got to say this, Uberti/Stoeger customer service is TOP NOTCH!! Kelly the young lady I spoke to made the decision that since the paperwork on both guns said "Scofield" that the feds wouldn't mind if they sent it directly back to me and skipped the mentally incompetent middleman with the FFL license. Uberti/Stoeger was fantastic to deal with all the way around during this whole ordeal and I would highly recommend their product based solely on that.
Now all I have to do is work the bugs out of loading 44-40 Black Powder cartridges and we're set.
