Does Anyone have an Uberti Richards II ?

Interesting - I've never heard of the potential problem of cracking on the forcing cone of Uberti's conversions. You do learn things on this forum.

I have the Uberti R-M conversion in both the '51 Navy and the '60 Army. With the Army I shoot .44 Colt, my choice as this would be the more period correct caliber. I shoot, and reload, only BP so can not speak to smokeless ammo. The .44 Colt is a great round but somewhat difficult to find, even in the best of times, at least here abouts. Reloading is easy, but adds to initial cost of the sport, once you accumulate the components it is all clear sailing with .44 brass the hardest to find. If you reload, and want to go the .44 Colt route I can point you in the direction of dies and component suppliers.

Good shooting.

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