FCK,
Do you know if the statement of being the "1st Model American" is in respect to the first model to be reproduced of this type S&W Revolver, or that they are actually reproducing a Model # 3 1st Model American?
Thanks!
My best,
Blair
Like all repros it is not going to be a perfect "clone" of an original I am sure. We will have to wait & see when one gets into the hands of a competent reviewer who can do a SxS with an original (Venturino, Chicoine, etc.). Regardless, it will be the
ONLY clone of one ever made. Your only other option is buying/shooting an original.
This Uberti version does have the smaller trigger boss imitating the 1st Model American "flat bottom". Since Uberti doesn't use recoil plates on any clone that will be correct for this model as that didn't come into being until later per the Russians.
At least Cimarron/Uberti is trying to please us in this time of a dwindling CAS market that is a shell of what it was in 2000.