RK- No, I bought the Pietta first from Cabelas, they don't carry the Uberti so I had to go somewhere else for it, I don't think Taylors went over it prior to shipping since it had been proof fired at the factory and they didn't even know that, I'm sure they would have cleaned it if they had gone to the trouble to work out burrs etc...
mec- the Uberti is off line at full lock up, the hammer is fully cocked and the bolt is in the notch, not much to do about that eh?
Oldelm- yep, all the cylinders, some more than others but its all of em. I had already planned to return this one because of the target sight/standard sight fiasco so that won't be a problem, they're already expecting this one back.
I'm surprised that Uberti lets them out of the factory like that, it seems that should be pretty high on the quality control check list I would imagine. Maybe they figure that half the people that get them aren't going to check for it and it would cost them a lot more money to scrap all of them rather than only the ones that come back.