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Offline Coal Creek Griff

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Uberti 1876 Positive Slam Down
« on: April 23, 2017, 04:08:32 PM »
It seems that my fairly recent 1876 carbine came from the factory with a positive carrier slam down, which I find to be surprising. The carrier arm doesn't have a screw installed, but appears to be shaped to slam the carrier down.  Has anyone else encountered that?  Is that a new Uberti feature, or did I receive some kind of mutant?  Not that I'm complaining...

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Re: Uberti 1876 Positive Slam Down
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2017, 01:23:11 AM »
Mine's pretty close, but with the lever completely closed and compressing the trigger safety, I can still push the elevator up almost an eighth of an inch.

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Re: Uberti 1876 Positive Slam Down
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2017, 09:01:43 AM »
Interesting.  With the lever held closed, mine is solidly down.

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Re: Uberti 1876 Positive Slam Down
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2017, 12:11:23 PM »
Well heck ......

Uberti is sometimes like Veger (Star Trek the Movie).  They learn........ but very SLOWLY.

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Re: Uberti 1876 Positive Slam Down
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2017, 01:55:03 PM »
10-4
just checked my 5 yr old rifle, elevator is firmly push down nice and flush...no up movement.
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Re: Uberti 1876 Positive Slam Down
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2017, 10:27:46 PM »
Interestingly, when I got the rifle, it seemed to have a hitch in the cycling, which I traced to a kind of "knuckle" on the rounded (well, supposed to be rounded) end of the carrier lifter arm.  I don't pretend to be a gunsmith, so I crossed my fingers that the knuckle wasn't supposed to be there and I filed it round.  That made cycling much smoother.  It's interesting that the lifter arm is set on one end for a positive slam down, but isn't even properly rounded on the other end...

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