cattlemen carbine

dr4pat · 04-11-2010, 05:55 AM

Need some info, from all you guru's of BLACK POWDER.
Are all the cattlemen carbine's made by Uberti or how can you tell who is the manufacture? proof marks or what other ways?
Thanks , dr4pat

cayugad · 04-11-2010, 03:28 PM

If you are getting it from Cabela's I think it is a Pietta. Normally it will say on the barrel who made it if it was a L. Pietta.

arcticap · 04-13-2010, 10:53 PM

This Bluebook pdf file has pictures of the maker's marks & date codes.

https://store.bluebookinc.com/Info/P...Proofmarks.pdf

Krypt Keeper · 04-16-2010, 05:41 AM

Buddy of mine had an origional one yrs ago. Looked like it had sat in someones closet for 50 yrs when he got it, but not in too bad of shape. I remember him taking it to a gun shop and asking what it was worth. The guy told him not much and would give him $200 for it. He decided to keep it and found the real value of it later on. Seemed the gun shop guy was trying to get it for a song and dance for his personal collection.

REally cool guns, would love to have one in my collection.

cayugad · 04-16-2010, 09:05 AM

You have to be very careful of gun shops. They are in that line of work to make a profit and they will low ball your stuff.

Krypt Keeper · 04-16-2010, 04:56 PM

Yeah this one is something to be desired. I did by my very first blackpowder gun from there yrs ago for $80.

I moved from there about 10 yrs ago and stopped by there late last yr to look at some stuff while down that way. Place is still owned by the same guy but its a complete dump. People just sitting around smoking away, loose ammo everywhere trash all over the place.