Not mine, but that's what it looks like.
Used, and hardly fired for $400 with box and papers from a fellow shooter at the local club last weekend. He saw my 5" Uberti Wells Fargo Schofield and asked if I'd be interested. He went home and came right back with it, said right up front he needed some $$$ in a hurry. I looked it over, he told me to fire a few cylinders full of my ammo, and we did the deal. We met yesterday at a local FFL to make things nice and all legal-like.
The Laramie has the faintest of rings on the recoil plate surrounding the FP hole. Popped the sideplate and there was no residue inside, and no lubricant, either. Added a few dabs of Tetra grease while in there. Noteworthy is the coil spring, rebounding hammer, and hammer block in Laramie that's missing in the Uberti Schofield clones. Cylinder lined up perfectly to the barrel on all six Laramie chambers when checked with a range rod.
At the range using 775-800 fps handloads pushing a 230 gr plated swaged bullet the windage was spot-on and the elevation was a tad high at 25 yds, the range at which I commonly shoot handguns. A sub-6-o'clock hold is perfect, but I may just get a new rear sight leaf and cut the notch deeper and file down the top to get it ranged to an exact 6 at 25 yds.
I very much like the "New Model 3" grip with the hump on the backstrap similar to that on later S&Ws. I also like the absence of the underlug that's on the Schofield variant of the breaktop. In fact, this gun is a tad more comfortable to hold and shoot than my 5" Wells Fargo Uberti Schofield with its plow handle or saw handle grip. But I like the short barrel of the Schofield, too, so they are both keepers.
The Laramie (top) with the Uberti Schofield:
This fills one of the few remaining niches in my want list. No kidding. Not many more to go. I'm enjoying shooting the guns I have, rediscovering guns I haven't pulled out in a long time, and etc. Not much out there I want or have interest in that I don't already have.
Just sharing,
Noah
Nice deal for sure; I had heard of the Beretta Laramies before but not much.
