Been saving my pennies (and quarters, dimes, and nickles.. and the occasional actual piece of paper currency) for a Uberti .38-55 High Wall after being very favorably impressed with a .45-70 model of a local acquaintance.

I've run into a question, however, that I haven't been able to answer;

Does the Uberti .38-55 have a chamber cut for the "modern" spec 1.082" brass? Or the original spec 1.125" brass?

I called Buffalo Arms (planning to order one, but they're currently out of stock)...
They were very helpful with my questions about sight dovetail dimensions (we both got a laugh out of Uberti's description that it's a "metric 3/8" slot"...).
Unfortunately, they didn't know about the brass/chamber, and didn't have one handy to check.

Rich at Buffalo Arms even called Uberti...
THEY didn't know (though I suspect they just didn't understand the question...).

I SUSPECT that Uberti probably cut the chamber for the "modern" spec of 1.082"..

Does anyone have a .38-55 Uberti High Wall they load for that could confirm my suspicion?

At least them being out of stock gives me another paycheck to squirrel away money!
(and buy the dies, brass, mold, etc etc...)

Thanks in advance!
Paul F.

Excellent!  Just the brass I was hoping for (since I just happen to have some of Starline's "long" brass in my MidwayUSA online shopping cart...).

If nothing else, I can trim the long ones short if necessary, but "stretching" the short ones sounds like more work that would be entertaining...

Paul F.

Well that's darn interesting, and darn tempting!
But I'm not sure how long I can wait... 

Maybe it wouldn't hurt to see if they're available RIGHT AT Shot Show time...

Paul F.

I made a Cerrosafe cast of my Uberti .38-55 chamber and determined that it is cut  for the longer brass.

Bill

Just a passing comment.  I assume the major interest for this project is for the BPCS crowd, but I can't help but wonder why they aren't going to make a DST .32-40 high-wall for the paper target (read  "schuetzen") crowd.  I guess we don't be buying enough rifles (or at least that would be the prediction) to inspire that variation.  I wonder why Winchester .32-40 brass keep selling out as fast as they run it? 

Then again, you could get a new .32-40 barrel from Green Mtn and put it on in place of the .38-55.  They use the same extractor, etc, so the job would be very straightforward.

HMMMMM. 
Froggie

Regarding the production time of pedersoli I have been informed by the factory that they will start mass production in this spring and hope to start to deliver in June, there will be no public sale at show in LV but the prototypes will be on display.

I would waite for the Pedersoli there barrels is to my belives much better than uberti which I have had problems with earlier.
Michael

Sounds like deja vu all over again! I had to double check the date of this post because I swear we heard this last year about the Pedersoli High wall being unveiled at the shot show.  Joe S