Uberti engraved topbreak

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Well lately I have looked at topbreaks. Something about them I like.:) I am currently deployed and want something nice for myself when I get back. So I was seriously considering Uberti's engraved nickle plated topbreak. It comes with two sets of grips, one walnut, one pearl looking. Expensive though. $2,999.00 Gonna be hard to tell convince the wife on this one....lol. Definitely will have to get the misses something nice as well for also dealing with this deployment, as well as maybe softening her a bit....lol. Good thing is she does not mind my love for firearms and shows interest as well.

If I do not get the engraved one maybe just the regular nickle plate would be cool too. But if I get the plain one, I was also considering Berreta's Laramie which is also a topbreak. I would get it in nickle plate also. I like the fact that Berreta's latch on top looks like the period's revolvers.

Anyways anyone have one of these replica's? If so are you happy with it. Oh I also know that Beretta owns Uberti now. Too bad they don't offer the Laramie engraved as well. I just love the Uberti's engraved topbreak!

http://www.uberti.com/firearms/engraved_top_break.php
 
I have a plain shooter version, the Uberti/Scholfield 44-40. It is a good shooter and accurate. But only worth the $650 I paid for it. Engraving shouldn't raise it that much to $3K !
I bought a new made for me COLT SAA engraved with 1/2 coverage, my name and a custom front sight with gold inlay. Cost was $2k. Not a top break but it's the real thing a COLT. It's a 44spl. May I suggest you look online at Colt and then call the custom shop, followed by a letter from you detailing your order, and last but not least the FFL to send it to. You pay 1/2 up front and the balance in 6 months approximately.
If you still want a Uberti top break you might consider buying a plain version, see how good it shoots and if it's a keeper have the engraving done by a US engraver to your order.
 
Go to the Smith & Wesson site and look in "Engraved Pistols". They've got an engraved topbreaker that makes me crazy for $4500.

It's not nickeled but who knows what a phone call might generate.

I'd have one or more of the pistols if they'd just see their way to add a version of their first revolver models to their line of "Classics" (Gee, what a great idea! Our first reputation making product a classic. Why didn't I think of that?.....said the CEO of S&W) because I like topbreak revolvers too much. I don't get very excited about engraving though.
 
Yeah, what he said.
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The Colt is only the real thing when it's not a top-break. In the case of the Schofield, "If it's not a Smith & Wesson, it's only a copy."
 
Hey thanks guys. Never though of checking in S&W's catalog. Duh!...lol. Man that topbreak is sweet but even more expensive! I would love it nickleplated and might call them to see what they could do. But even blued, it looks just sweet! :D
 
A guy I know has one of the Beretta topbreakers, nickel plated. It's really a fine piece of work with no tooling marks showing under the plating, anywhere.

I'm not sure that it's still being made.
 
I have always liked the looks of the top breaks but shoot Colt stles better. I have a 10th anniversry coming up next year and I thought about trying to convience the wife into getting me a custom SAA. Take a look at USFA too as they are top notch and have some beatiful engraved guns.
 
S&W was making the top breaks, reintroduced around 1994 I think. But I don't think the S&W 2nd generation top breaks are a production item anymore. I even got a chance to talk to a S&W rep on the phone before they reintroduced them. A rep called me back as follow up to a letter or message I left. He told me there was no market for the top breaks and tooling for it would be cost prohibitive. Then I explained how the Italian-Ubertis were selling for $600 then and a 629 was about $500 so why couldn't they do it. He sounded taken aback and said he'd bring it up at the next company meeting. We should have talked about frame and cylinder lengths to. Part of the reason they failed (my opinion) is when S&W rentroduced them they made it exactly as the originals, with a short cylinder and frame that could not accept the 45 Colt, or a 44-40, dahh !
If you like 44 Russian or 45 Schofield then it's a excellent firearm, way better then the Uberti copy. But from my point of view it failed twice in history because it would not accept the popular cartridges of 1870's or now.
 
I always thought I would prefer to put the cost of engraving into a name brand rather than an imported reproduction. But Hawk's is the prettiest ersatz Wells Fargo Schofield I have ever seen, shows off the engraving better than a Colt.

As to the S&W highpriced flop of a reintroduction, I credit them for keeping it authentic. At its price faking it up in other calibers would not have helped much. S&W couldn't sell .44-40s a hundred+ years ago, doubt they could now. If they had wanted to bring out one or another Russian, nobody would have known what it was anyhow, most of the Schofield's reputation was movie based.

I was told by a senior advanced collector that S&W themselves had long ago circulated plans for the big topbreaks around Europe looking for a collaborator but could not find one. So when Uberti (and ASM, ick) decided to give it a try, they had a head start, even without further backing.
 
I bought a 45 Laramie in Nickel from CDNN for $7--. Most of it looks good, but there is a little gouge in it and some of the barrel has hazy spots on it. I was thinking of sending it back to Beretta, but was going to post some pics on this board to see if I was being too picky. Overall I like it a lot. I can see a couple difference between it and my original.
 
I always thought I would prefer to put the cost of engraving into a name brand rather than an imported reproduction. But Hawk's is the prettiest ersatz Wells Fargo Schofield I have ever seen, shows off the engraving better than a Colt.
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Jim, unless I'm badly mistaken the photo posted by Hawk is not an imported reproduction. It's one of the Smith & Wesson engraved series of revolvers and pistols as here: http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/...angId=-1&parent_category_rn=15715&isFirearm=Y
 
It's really a nice looking thing, isn't it?

Some of the engraved offerings have a list of the pistols of the style that shows which number and how many have already been sold but I'm not finding such a list for the Scofield. I don't think that it's one of a kind though since they include their buying mechanism in the page that displays the gun. Some things tempt me - not many things anymore but that one does.

Elsewhere in the site are some engraved commemorative pistols, and there's a page or two showing the types of thing that a person could order.

Much of that type of thing is too gawdy for me but it's good to see them so actively working to keep us interested.
 
You can say what you want about me. But that blued version with the pearl grips is a good lookin' gun. I could do without the gold inlay, but even with , it's not bad. I wonder how silver would look in it?

Wyman
 
Short Barrel Version?

I'd love to have a plain jane version, Uberti or otherwise,
with the shorter barrel for plinking. Does anyone make such a critter?
 
Uberti has made them with the original 7" barrel, the 5" barrel as many were cut down to for surplus sales, and a 3.5" hideout gun. The 5" as shown by Hawk is to my eye the best looking. But the 7" will shoot better.
 
Wow this thread got more posts than I thought it would! Well as of right now I will probably go with the nickleplated Uberti 7" barrel .45 colt model. As my link in the first post shows the engraving looks pretty good for an import. Though that S&W Hawk showed is just so sweet looking! But just a tad more than I am willing to pay. And the Uberti comes with two grips.

Also I own an Uberti revolver carbine in 45 colt and am satisfied with the quality of it. This would be my fanciest handgun I would probably ever buy. Though it won't be a safe queen I just won't shoot it but maybe twice a year. But who knows, I still have 7 months left here in the "sandbox", could change my mind.
 
Well, whatever you decide thanks for bringing the Uberti link. I hadn't known that they were making topbreak revolvers and now have difficulty taking my eyes away from the Russian replica. Something about the proportions of that 6 1/2" barrel, the two finger trigger guard, and the rounded grip with lanyard loop has a dangerous appeal to me - dangerous to my wallet I mean.
 
KRS,

Your welcome. =) Yes I saw that Russian revolver and it is a nice piece. I would try to talk you out of looking at it but hey this is THR....lol.
 
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