does anyone have first hand knowledge with the uberti cattleman ?
Yes, I have had two of them, chambered for 45 Colt. The first one was a dog, had the worst trigger pull of any revolver I have ever owned, and the barrel was not properly screwed in so the front sight leaned slightly to one side. I eventually got rid of it.
I still have the second one, it is much better than the first one was.
When you buy an Uberti you are not buying a Colt. Nor are you paying as much money as a Colt. Most folks will tell you the fit and finish of their Ubertis is beautiful. I am a bit fussier. Yes, on the outside they are beautiful, but on the inside they are a bit rough, because Uberti runs their CNC machines at high feed rates to crank out as many parts per hour as possible. If they didn't you would have to pay more. So on the inside the parts tend to have rough surfaces and sharp edges. This means that all of them could profit from an action job to smooth out the actions somewhat.
The 'color case hardening' on the frames of Ubertis is not the true bone Case Hardening you get on a Colt, it is done with a much less labor intensive chemical process. Another factor in why Colts are more expensive.
With an Uberti you do not get a hardened steel bushing where the firing pin emerges from the frame.
With a Colt you do.
Ubertis try to be as authentic to 19th Century Colts as possible. So with an Uberti you get the tiny V groove rear sight. Colts went to an easier to see square rear sight during the 2nd Generation.
Ubertis have an action that works exactly like a Colt, so you must leave an empty chamber under the hammer. If you drop one on the hammer with a live round under the hammer it will most likely fire. Very bad things can happen. In order to be imported into the US, Ubertis have to have a provision to prevent that from happening. Some have a tiny hammer block built into the hammer to prevent that, others come to this country with a two position cylinder pin. In the rearward position the pin blocks the hammer so the gun cannot fire. This two position pin is bothersome, sometimes shooters forget to put it in the forward position. Many of us replace the pin with an afermarket pin, then we have to observe the empty chamber under the hammer rule.
Don't get me wrong, for the money Uberti makes a nice revolver. Just not as nice as a Colt.
And as I said earlier, chambered for 357 Mag there is plenty of steel surrounding the chambers, so you can shoot 357 Mags out of them all day long.