The Italians and Their Old West Replica Firearms

["DoubleAction"]

I'm no expert on Old West Firearms, but, I prefer to call these Italian Firearms "Authentic Reproductions".

www.uberti.com/

www.uberti.com/information/history_of_uberti_firearms.php

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Uberti,_Srl.

www.legacysports.com/products/puma/puma_bhunterm87shot.html

[TMan]

OK, but there are others than Uberti:

Armi: www.armisport.com/eng/azienda.htm

Pedersoli: www.davide-pedersoli.com/?lang=en

Pietta: www.pietta.us/products/index.html

From what I've gleaned so far, I'd rank them in the order: Pedersoli, Uberti, Pietta, Armi.

I'm leaving out Feinwerkbau, which is absolutely top of the line. I don't have the History I, but I do have the History II, and I'm not interested in the History I.

[blueglass]

Pedersoli does make some really nice old style guns. They produce both handguns as well as long rifles. In the Sharp's lineup alone they probably produce around 50 different models. In the Black Powder lineup they produce close to 100 different products some of which my fellow club members own and shoot. Their quality is extremely well done and their barrels are of extremely high caliber also. They use the same kind of boring machines that the Anschutz company from Germany uses. I am fortunate to own one Annie rifle and it really shoots extremely straight and smooth. Even the finish is done really well on all their models and their prices are very fair it seems for what you get.

["DoubleAction"]

....Beretta now owns Uberti., as you already know, both companies are Italian. " Beretta Holding, also owns Beretta USA, Benelli, Franchi, SAKO, Stoeger, Tikka, Uberti, and the Burris Optics company."


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beretta#Overview



.....Beretta and Uberti

madogre.com/?p=2767

["DoubleAction"]

Spaghetti Westerns & Uberti Firearms

"The Guns from Uberti"
"We’re taking you to the primary source of the guns from our American History, but the source is not in the US It’s in Italy where the guns were made for Clint Eastwood in the gritty roles that made him famous—The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, A Fist Full of Dollars and the others, now referred to as spaghetti Westerns. Back then, Aldo Uberti was the man who built the historic guns for the movies. Today his company makes more guns for cowboy shooters than anybody else.This is where Aldo Uberti founded his company in the 1950s to recreate the famous firearms of the past. He first made the Colt designed black powder revolvers and later moved on to Remington and Winchester designs. And in 1960 Italian movie director, Sergio Leone, came to consult Aldo Uberti to find the Old West guns he needed for what would become known as “spaghetti westerns”. For a Fist Full of Dollars was the first of Leone’s gritty movie interpretations of the Old West that would change moving making forever and make Clint Eastwood a star. The movies would also promote world-wide interest in the guns of the American West."

www.shootingusa.com/TV_SCHEDULE/SHOW_25-13/show_25-13.html

www.uberti.com/

["DoubleAction"]

.."A Fistful of Dollars" : Clint Eastwood : "Uberti Replica of Colt Single Action Army 5 1/2" Artillery with rattlesnake grips carried by "The Man with No Name".

All the firearms in this film were supplied by Aldo Uberti Inc. of Italy.

"A Fistful of Dollars"

A Fistful of Dollars is a 1964 Western film starring Clint Eastwood as a stranger who finds himself entering a small Mexican town in the midst of a battle for control between two warring families. He then sees an opportunity to make some money by working both sides. The film was directed by Italian western Sergio Leone and his reinvention of the genre came to be known as the "spaghetti western". The plot appeared to resemble the Kurosawa film Yojimbo and the production was a subject of a lawsuit (which was settled out of court). The film was the first in what came to be known as the "Dollars/Man with No Name" trilogy, which includes 1965's For a Few Dollars More and 1966's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

www.imfdb.org/wiki/A_Fistful_of_Dollars

["DoubleAction"]

Spaghetti Western Replica Gear



www.spaghettiwesternreplicas.com/

["DoubleAction"]

"Replicas"

handgunforum.proboards.com/thread/3675/replicas

Sept 9, 2010 11:04:20 GMT -5 5ontarget said:

Had a friend that needed a new motor for his boat. These weren't very good paddles, so he sold them to me.



I've got walnut grips for the revolvers, but the stags were on them when I got them.

Now to go shoot them sometime soon.
These are guns by EMF. Revolvers were made in Italy by Pietta and I think the carbine was made by Uberti.


handgunforum.proboards.com/thread/3675/replicas

[blueglass]

They are really nice. I love the look of the Winchester model with the Brass side plate on it. They are all smart looking guns for sure.