If not primers, get a feeler gauge and check for consistent clearance rather than eyeballing it.The 3rd and 4th and the 5th and 6th has got to be headspace, primers, or cylinder is off.
Cherry-pick until you find six fired/unprimed cases with rims the same thickness. With the cylinder locked in battery, find a feeler that'll enter on one with just a little drag. Place the hammer on half-cock and turn the cylinder slowly to see how much it changes from one chamber to another. Little or no change means that everything is square and true. Significant change means that somethin's crooked.
Ideally, six GO headspace gauges should be used...but they're pricey.
The recoil shield is the rear part of the frame, the standing breech. The recoil plate, or firing pin bushing, is a hardened steel insert pressed into the frame of most single action Colt's, USFA's and Rugers. Uberti does not install them as a cost-cutting measure. Which is the problem, because the frame is softer than a recoil plate and tends to wear quicker. Since there is no plate to replace, the fix is to either install one or weld up the hole and recut it. Which most folks find to be cost prohibitive considering the cost of a replacement gun.
I had similar issues with my Uberti Hombre Cattlemen SA revolvers. They were basically junk but I guess I should have expected that considering their price.
They were also so unreliable that I could not compete with them (mounted shooting) and after a couple hundred in SAS gunsmith work, bought something else.
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