USFA's Single Action Army (SAA) model comes standard with barrel, grip frame, triggerguard and cylinder blued, and the frame is a very nice color case hardening. The hammers now come blued, but the sides are left in the white. For an additional charge you can get the hammer cch'd, also.
I ordered a pair with the black powder frame (screw in the front of the frame to retain the cylinder pin), bullseye efector, and 7-1/2" bbls in 44-40 wcf. The barrel sports the new makers marking between two "+" which does add an old time touch to it as USFA suggests.
Simply put, these pistols are dandies. Except for minor cosmetic blemishes that can be easily corrected, the pistols are great out of the box. The grips fit nicely, the cch on the frame is nicely done, and the the cylinders lock up tight.
Registered: September 2004 Location: Thompsons Station, TN Posts: 130
Review Date: Thu June 1, 2006
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $915.00
| Rating: 9
Pros:
Excellent materials and finish
Cons:
Only minor finishing on one cylinder pin
Great service from Ultona (Phil Rezac) and the quality of the workmanship is pretty hard to beat.
Doc Sunrise
Registered: January 2006 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 563
Review Date: Sat July 15, 2006
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
Pros:
Case Colors are Brilliant, Fit & Finish are Excellent! Grips are perfectly fit! A beautiful handgun!
Cons:
When I find one, I'll let you know!
Absolutely superb in its looks and feel backed up by a great shooting sixgun! USFA's great American quality shines through when you hold it, shoot it, and disassemble it to clean it. Out of the box it shoots to point of aim and has tight groups thanks to proper cylinder gapping. Action is smooth, trigger pull breaks cleanly at 3 1/2 lb. Cylinder is polished well enough spent cartridges fall out on their own. A great value!
Virginia Gentleman
Registered: September 2005 Location: Potomac Falls, Virginia Posts: 813
Review Date: Fri August 25, 2006
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
Pros:
Superb workmenship and authenticity
Cons:
Case colored hammer now an option at extra cost
Simply the best SAA made today and hands down beats anything coming out of Colt or Italy. USFA has made a gun that is as true to the original 1st generation design as possible with attention to detail unrivaled in the industry. I wouldn't be without one.
klw
Registered: February 2006 Posts: 23
Review Date: Thu September 7, 2006
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 7
Pros:
Abolutely beautiful gun
Cons:
cylinder pin would easily stick, crude sights
Mine was an Omni Target. Absolutely beautiful gun. Very accurate. Only problem was that the cylinder pin would stick and become almost impossible to remove. Now, I think, you can buy replacement pins of VERY hard steel which solve this problem.
Rusty Johnson
Registered: April 2006 Location: El Paso Del Norte (Far West Texas to you Northern folk) Posts: 25
Review Date: Sat October 7, 2006
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
Pros:
Beautiful gun. Well worth the money
Cons:
none so far
Mr. Turnbull did a great job on the case hardening & fire blued appoimtments of my pre war black powder frame
Murphyl
Registered: June 2005 Location: Kansas City, MO Posts: 1
Review Date: Thu May 3, 2007
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 9
Pros:
Excellent fit, finish and "feel" although a bit stiff out of the box. Steel just seems more "dense" than that of my imported (Brazil & Italy) Colt clones.
Cons:
I had the base pin problem mentioned in another review-only in one pistol but it was severe. No only boogered up the base pin but broke one of those Brownell's SAA "base pin removal tools"
Base pin problem was resolved under factory warranty. Perhaps the best shooing irons I own!
yul b. nekst Unforgiven
Registered: July 2007 Location: Up north Wisconsin, near da Yoopers, eh. Posts: 23
Review Date: Sat July 14, 2007
Would you recommend the product? No |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 3
Pros:
Not much positve here!
Cons:
Where to begin? I ordered the gun back in 2003. After the standard wait of three months, I called to see how things were coming along. They weren't! Order lost! Another three month wait and finally, the gun of my dreams, sort of. In my dreams I didn't wan
After the order was lost, I should have rescinded. But, NO, I had to have a real American made Colt style .45. Where's my Cimarron?
The Chaplain from Hell!
Registered: September 2007 Posts: 3
Review Date: Thu February 14, 2008
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
Pros:
These SA revolvers from USFA are absolutely the finest SAA revolvers I have used in the last 50 years. The materials, workmanship, fit, and finish beat the competition hands down. Extremely accurate with a very clean trigger.
Cons:
Only lacks the magic word "Colt"; but I still prefer USPF revolvers.
What more can I say about this product. I own and shoot 4 USFA SAA Revolvers. A matched pair of 5-1/2 .45 Pre-War Style, a 7-1/2 Black Powder frame .45, and a 4-3/4 Gunslinger .45 with one piece walnut grips. They are all the absolutely finest SAA's I've used in the last 50 years. The runner up was a 1957 2nd Gen Colt with first Gen parts with a Bob James trigger job; but it wasn't nearly as accurate.
kennith
Registered: June 2008 Posts: 20
Review Date: Tue August 5, 2008
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $1,200.00
| Rating: 10
Pros:
Outstanding quality!
Cons:
None
When you consider the price of this firearm, it can be a hard sell. When you receive it, however, you see where every penny went. This is the tightest, smoothest, most solid, and most beautiful single action I have seen. I have shot most other single action revolvers, and this one takes the cake. I won both Ruger and Italian, as well as this, and there is no comparison.
This is not just a firearm, it is a work of fine machining, and a work of art. If Omega stopped making watches and started building SAAs, and paid Michelangelo to finish them on his off time between ceilings, they couldn't come up with a better product than this.
The deepest blue, the most mesmerizing case colors, the slickest action, and the most precise trigger combine with perfect recoil control and balance to provide the shooter with everything he is looking for in a single action army.
Others make firearms "like" this, and they may be fine. Ruger makes a nice one, and Freedom Arms make a great one as well, but they just aren't the same. If you want the proper old west feel, this is, in my opinion, impossible to beat.
I've met some of the finest gunsmiths in the world and seen much of their work up close and personal, and the makers of this sixgun can stand with their heads held high among all of them.
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