Slowhand,
All agreed!
I just bought two of the same gun, with 5.5" barrels, used. Like you I am pretty stoked - I wanted a real colt, but I'd never want to shoot it. If I was rich enough to buy real colts... I still wouldn't - unless they were some historic piece, for the safe/sentimentality. Never to shoot. I saw an incredible apache engraved 1st gen colt, that originally was sold to plinkerton... then lived for the last 100+ years on a reservation. If that gun could talk... man it is probably a blood-curdling story. Something like that I could see owning, purely for the safe.
My two Cimarron model P's are in fact Uberti Cattleman revolvers. They have the charcoal+blue finish... look really nice. Unfortunately the last owner didn't know about cleaning guns, and every cylinder had its bushing jammed/gummed up, along with a ton of gunk in them, and the bores filled with lead. The guns were just filthy inside... been soaking them in ATF+Acetone for a bit. I have a lead pulling kit, so I'll be yanking the crud out of the bores tomorrow.
I also want some custom grips. The uberti grips are very high grade walnut, but I'd like some of the aged ivory ones, simulated of course.
Anyhow, I really like how they feel, and that's coming from a USFA Rodeo II (posted about it here a while back in the USFA forum).
Uberti makes one very fine gun!
Mike