euroarms 73 winchester carbine

[boot strap jack]

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I have a 73 carbine, this gun shoots nice. It does need some work on the lever saftey. This rifle will drop the hammer when out of battery. Is this a thing that a 73 smith can easily fix? The gun was made by euroams of Brescia Italy. So it states on barrel. Were these guns any good? I would like to change out the front sight and add a tang rear sight, but have to find out what screw size was used for the tang. also if the other sights for the other companies 73's will work.
BSJ

[Coffinmaker]

Your Euroarms '73 was made a long time ago.  With few exceptions, there are no replacement parts made for it anymore and one must exercise care when working on it.

The trigger safety can easily be made functional by a competent '73 smith.  The safety bar needs to be fit to the frame and the spring that activates it need to be replaced.  Two choices here, Happy Trails of "The Smith Shop" in RI does a nice spring and the "Cowboys and Indian Store" in Calif. does a nice one as well.  The springs are fairly easy to install if your familiar with a complete tear down of the rifle.  Fitting the bar is a bit more difficult.

Depending on your interest,  some of these really old Uberti built guns can be short stroked and some cannot.  Some will only work with the parts that are in them.  Because of the unavailability of parts, should one make a mistake, caution should be exercised in what is attempted on the gun.  Tuning a set of REPLACEMENT springs to lighten and smooth the action is about it.

Coffinmaker   

[boot strap jack]

thanks for the info. so was euroarms the maker or the importer?
BSJ

[Driftwood Johnson]

Howdy

EuroArms was kind of an assembly house. Sometimes they just put their stamp on guns made by other companies, sometimes they assembled guns made from parts made by other companies. Brescia is a town in a very old gunmaking region in northern Italy. Several companies have been located there. I have an old EuroArms percussion Remington 1858 New Model Army that I bought sometime back in the 1970s. Here is a photo of the EuroArms legend on the top of the barrel.



This one was actually made by Armi San Paolo, an Italian arms maker that is no longer in business. This is a photo of the Armi San Paolo logo, on the under side of the barrel of my old Remmie. D,G,G inside a circle. See if you can find any maker's logos anywhere on your '73. I am not aware of any other companies making replicas of the '73, but there may have been.



I will second Happy Trails, he is a wizard with old guns, he can often fabricate new parts, or add some weld to build up a part and reshape it.

[boot strap jack]

I forgot about looking for the makers mark, I take a look for it later. Thanks BSJ

[Driftwood Johnson]

Howdy

You can find more information about EuroArms here:

https://store.bluebookinc.com/Info/PDF/POWDER/MBPProofmarks.pdf

Apparantly Armi San Paolo has been doing business as EuroArms since 2001, but my old EuroArms Remmie goes way back to the 1970s, I think I bought it brand new around 1975.

You also may be able to date your rifle by the information at the beginning of the article.

Don't forget to look for an Uberti logo someplace on your gun, the octogon with a U inside. Or perhaps some other maker's mark.

[boot strap jack]

As always, Driftwood your answers are on the mark. I looked up the makers mark on your link, and it is an armi san paolo. It was made in 1973. In googling the net, on one forum it was stated that these were suposed to be exact copies of the 73. I don't know about that, but it was also stated that they made them in 44 mag. I don't think I would shoot one in 44 mag. I have shoot light loads of 357 out of this one a couple of times, but will be shooting light 38 level loads mostly. If they are close copies it may be worth a try for any parts fix.
Thanks BSJ