Kind of mind boggling, in a way........

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Bob Wright

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I bought an Uberti Flat Top .45 Colt on Wednesday, August 15th. By the following Saturday I had replaced the ejector rod and base pin screw with ones I liked better.

Today the ejector rod is on a revolver in Texas, and the base pin screw on a revolver in Middle Tennessee, the rest of the gun resides with me.

Bob Wright
 
Why did you change the base pin screw?

Did you install a Torx screw or something :p Or a screw with a small wingnut? I have seen pics of old guns where that was done.

I understand that there are a few different shapes for the "pusher piece" on the ejector rod. Hey, don't laugh as I don't remember ever seeing a name for the part you actually push on.

Anyway, what did you like better than the factory parts.

Bart Noir
Who wishes he hadn't sold a certain Uberti Cattleman years back.
 
O.K., ejector rod first: My Flat Top Target had a bullseye, or button head, thumb piece. This gave a very good and comfortable surface to punch out empties, but it projected out too much for my impeccable taste, and good fit in a holster. The crescent shaped ejector rod head (that's what that thing is called) lies snug up closer to the barrel of the gun, prevents binding in a holster.

As to the base pin screw, it stood out about 3/16" away from the forward edge of the frame, and had an enlarged and knurled thumbpiece for ease of removal or replacing, and could be taken out or replace without tools. Worked fine, but, again, my delicate sense of taste rebelled. I replaced it with a slotted head screw that fit flush with the frame.

Neither part represented an improvement, just, in my opinion, improved the looks of the gun.

And, incidentally, both were factory replacement parts.

Bob Wright
 
Nothing at all wrong with tastefully tweaking a gun to your tastes.

Some say I've gone way past "tasteful" with mine...esp. if I can get magazine feed working :).
 
I have gas-powered auto-ejection of empty shells working in 357Mag right now, in prototype form. See videos posted :).

The next step is to convert the whole gun to 9mmPara and do tubular plug-in magazines into a new hole to be drilled in the recoil shield just left of the hammer. Once the cylinder is dry it'll pick up new rounds injected forward into the cylinder with coil springs by Wolff meant for a 30-30 levergun mag :).

In that feed cycle only the top three chambers are used at any one time: inject a round, over one left to fire, over once again to get gas-ejected by the previous round going off.

For carry I'll have the loaded cylinder plus a short one-shot magazine plugged in. Once that's dry, switch to foot-long tube mags of 8rd or so. I *might* be able to get coil-mags working via a tube bender, which might allow up to 20rds in a mag. That would totally rock :). Even with just straight mags though, the firepower would exceed a modern DA sixgun like the GP100 by a significant amount. And both the Steel Challenge (revolver class) and ICORE rules don't specifically ban magazine fed revolvers just yet, so it'll be a total hoot and a half getting video of a club match where a replica 1873 keeps up with the modern stuff for the first time ever :D.
 
That's one PLUS what's in the cylinder. Meaning the firepower out of the holster once the mag conversion is done will either equal or be +1 from stock.

We're dealing with a whole different set of rules here :). The mag ain't the only source of ammo.

The conversion is NOT done yet. I'm setting up all the pieces first, particularly doing the chamber reaming, barrel prep, getting the gas trap fully sorted, etc.
 
I meant did you carry the Ruger with its gas eject system. If you did I might just have a new hero haha. Can't wait to see the magazine system working, it would feel like you had one of those magic movie revolvers that never run out of ammo.
 
My Cattleman came with both base pin screws. I didn't like the look of the knurled one either. It's the one on the bottom in case you can't tell.:p

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First point: I carry daily without fail, period.

Second: some of you are assuming I own more than one centerfire gun...
 
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