Voodoochile
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Well I finally bought a Millenium edition Uberti '58 NMA, My second Uberti in 18 years "my 3rd model Dragoon" & when it got home I just like a kid in a toy store. 
First impressions:
Fit & finish is pretty good & the Parkerizing is actually relatively smooth compared to some Park jobs I've seen, the grips ofcorse the normal Uberti red but a very nice fit & smooth finish, & the only detractor being that one of the previous owners drilled & tapped the frame for a scope mount & they also filed the front sight some probably to sight it in of to get it out of the scops picture "minor & tolorable."
The cylinder locks up good but still has a slight left & right wabble to it & it is about .0060 shorter than the opening front to back but I can attest that the frame has not been modified for a Pieta cylinder because none of mine will fit.
The hammer pull was a work out with a 7Lb pull & a little gritty because of hammer to frame contact it seems, but freakishly the trigger pull was very light 2.5Lb!!!
No rust!
I was impressed that there is no rust & relatively clean, & checking cylinder alignment looked promising so I cleaned her up & smoothed up the action including working the sear slightly to give me a little more trigger pull "I like em 3.5 - 4Lbs" & got her ready for my first range outing with it.
All I have to say is WOW.
This pistol likes my 220gr. cast Lee conicals & 30gr. of Pyrodex P keeping a 5 shot average of 3 inches with the 6th shot being a flier opening the group up to 5 inches at 25-30 yards, shoot even the POI & POA was real close just slightly right & even though I did not have my Chrono with me I'm sure it is pushing a good ammount of speed being that it blew those 220gr. bullets clean through my 20dX20wX24t box packed with Cardboard & Magazines at 25 yards!
I'll need to check which chamber is the flier & see if it can be brought into the rest of the gang of just keep it in time out.
Impressively though I was able to run through 5 full cylinder loads without even a single slow down or wipe off but I'm sure that the cylinder end play had something to do with it "maybe it's a positive thing & I shouldn't bother with that."
Now I intended this to be a gift for my hunt club president because he likes both of my Pietta '58's but I'm having second thoughts on this & may have to keep this one & either give him my 8" Pietta or find another '58 to do this again but I know for sure that this piece even with it's minor little issues, it's beautiful, it shoots really good & it's now a smooth machine that seems to like a heavy bullet.
Sorry for the size but I also wanted to get my 5-1/2" barreled Pietta in there too.
First impressions:
Fit & finish is pretty good & the Parkerizing is actually relatively smooth compared to some Park jobs I've seen, the grips ofcorse the normal Uberti red but a very nice fit & smooth finish, & the only detractor being that one of the previous owners drilled & tapped the frame for a scope mount & they also filed the front sight some probably to sight it in of to get it out of the scops picture "minor & tolorable."
The cylinder locks up good but still has a slight left & right wabble to it & it is about .0060 shorter than the opening front to back but I can attest that the frame has not been modified for a Pieta cylinder because none of mine will fit.
The hammer pull was a work out with a 7Lb pull & a little gritty because of hammer to frame contact it seems, but freakishly the trigger pull was very light 2.5Lb!!!
No rust!
I was impressed that there is no rust & relatively clean, & checking cylinder alignment looked promising so I cleaned her up & smoothed up the action including working the sear slightly to give me a little more trigger pull "I like em 3.5 - 4Lbs" & got her ready for my first range outing with it.
All I have to say is WOW.
This pistol likes my 220gr. cast Lee conicals & 30gr. of Pyrodex P keeping a 5 shot average of 3 inches with the 6th shot being a flier opening the group up to 5 inches at 25-30 yards, shoot even the POI & POA was real close just slightly right & even though I did not have my Chrono with me I'm sure it is pushing a good ammount of speed being that it blew those 220gr. bullets clean through my 20dX20wX24t box packed with Cardboard & Magazines at 25 yards!
I'll need to check which chamber is the flier & see if it can be brought into the rest of the gang of just keep it in time out.
Impressively though I was able to run through 5 full cylinder loads without even a single slow down or wipe off but I'm sure that the cylinder end play had something to do with it "maybe it's a positive thing & I shouldn't bother with that."
Now I intended this to be a gift for my hunt club president because he likes both of my Pietta '58's but I'm having second thoughts on this & may have to keep this one & either give him my 8" Pietta or find another '58 to do this again but I know for sure that this piece even with it's minor little issues, it's beautiful, it shoots really good & it's now a smooth machine that seems to like a heavy bullet.
Sorry for the size but I also wanted to get my 5-1/2" barreled Pietta in there too.
