Taylor Uberti 1858 Remington Stainless Steel .44 Caliber 8" Barrel Black Powder Revolver

Just received this revolver, and it looks nice. The response time and shipping were very quick, and it was packaged well enough to survive shipping without damage to the Taylor's box. The gun came well coated in a mostly odorless oil and seems to operate smoothly, though I've not yet loaded or fired it. The blade sight and the loading lever catch are each dovetailed into the barrel and look good; I'll have to fire it a number of times to see if the sights are 'on'. The gap between the cylinder and the forcing cone on the barrel was a barely visible sliver of light, which is obviously not a specific measurement, but looks quite tight to this layman. Removing the cylinder was easy enough, but replacing it seemed like quite an ordeal until I tried placing one of the nipple recesses over the hammer from the left side of the gun and swinging the cylinder in part the spring loaded cylinder stop. It's not super fast for me now, but I seem able to change the cylinder reasonably smoothly. Fit and finish are pretty good, with a few small blemishes on two of the octagonal barrel faces, which might polish out. The brass trigger guard is nicely polished on the outside, but the grind inside the guard is a bit rougher and has some dark marks. I'm hopeful that I might be able to polish it up. Plus the guard has a small 1/16" blemish that looks like a casting bubble or something. Not a deal breaker, just mildly disappointing. The grips are slightly proud of the frame, and I was concerned about the right hand grip nut since it looked raised in some spots and recessed in others. I decided that the nut was ground to fit the grip panel and got installed at the incorrect rotation. Fortunately, I seem to have been correct, and a thin screwdriver blade allowed me to unscrew the nut, carefully remove it by pushing through from the inside, and by gentle trial and error, replace it at a more correct orientation. Now it sits flush with the right hand grip panel. Most of the gun is stainless steel, though the springs aren't, which seems obvious, and the hammer appears to be hardened steel, which may be necessary, though I don't know. The hardened steel hammer caused me a small issue in that when trying to seat it into one of the six safety notches on the cylinder, it seems teleworking easy to scratch the cylinder. Perhaps I'm being too picky... Overall, it's a nice gun and looks good. It's not perfectly finished, but it's not priced to be. When I've been able to fire it, perhaps I'll have more info to share...

Great looking gun and arrived in perfect condition. Pistol arrived in a box as well as a velco padded carrying case which is great to store in fafe with. No problem with ordering one like this again.