CIMARRON 1861 NAVY CUT FOR

Very nice fit and finish. Minimal deburring required. Removing the barrel required a few taps on loading lever but a little work with steel wool and lube fixed that.

I found out about buds from Hickok 45 on you tube. So I checked them out. Buds shipped out my cimarron by uberti in just a few days.
The gun has a tight lock with excellent timming. The finish is great looking too.
At 7 yards with a round ball and 25 grains of 777 I'm getting about 3" groups at point of aim! Excellent shooter. I recommend using .380 balls as .375 balls are about the same size as the chamber and was not shaving a lead ring off each ball.

This particular model is not very historically accurate, but it’s very nicely made. It won’t be competition accurate out of the box, and I noticed some rough spots in the machine finishing of the slot for the barrel wedge. None of this impairs it’s function, it will still lock up nice and tight with an easy disassembly. If you plan on taking it to serious competition, you should plan on getting it professionally tuned up anyway. Very honest 4 out of 5 stars: great quality and function with very minor cosmetic imperfections on parts you can’t even see without full disassembly.

Not a bad looking gun. The Cimarron company is supposed to be higher quality than the rest (so I’ve read online) so I got this one. It game just so slightly out of time. Fixed that. The bolt was peening or denting the cylinder right out of the box. I fixed that too, but cylinder is now left with ugly marks on the bolt leads. Gun had plenty burs and more sharp edges than any other gun I’ve ever seen before, every edge was bad. The steel is soft. My conclusion is, if you want authentic as possible, go with a Cimarron, they use uberti guns and try to replicate the markings and what not to look and feel original. But in the end, if you don’t care about where roll marks / import marks are placed and just want to shoot, buy the cheapest one you can find that’s made by uberti, or if you’re ok with the gun being slightly over sized, save a lot and buy a pietta. Because theyre all made in Italy and they all have about this kind of quality one way or another so why pay more. In my experience the black powder guns are always of lesser quality out of the box than the saa’s and rifles. A little work into them and you’ll have a nice gun though.