Question about Uberti Colt style SA triggers

[J Miller]

When I had my 75 vintage Uberti Cattleman rebuilt the gunsmith used a newer version for a donor. He installed a new bolt cam in the old hammer but used the newer trigger.
The cylinder carry up was late and at half cock the chamber did not line up with the loading gate, it was out of alignment to the left. So I got a new hand from VTI. From what I've read the hand will normally need fitting on the teeth to work correctly.
This one did not. The carry up is dead on now, the bolt locks in it's notch, and the trigger snaps into the full cock notch simultaneously.

However the cylinder is still a bit late at half cock. Sometimes the edges of the case rims catch the frame to the left.

So my question is this. Is there a difference between the newer and older triggers that might account for this? Maybe the newer triggers are shorter on the sear end?
If this is the case I'll see what I can do to find a proper trigger.

Joe

Note: Edited to put in the correct part names. Maybe it will make more sense now.

[coyote]

to quote kuhnhausen (colt sa revolver sho manual, page 75):

"...replica saa triggers also vary dimensionally..."

also see comparison drawings on page 197 where one can easily see how uberti cattleman triggers are so vastly different, depending on when it was made.
(ie: in this example he shows "early-intermediate" and "intermediate-late" examples, where the latter one has a much longer and differently angled sear engagement "point").

[J Miller]

coyote,

Thanks for the reply. So they do vary a lot. OK. I don't have Kuhnhausen's Colt book, that's just one more to buy I guess.

Joe

[coyote]

joe,

over the last 40 years i've read thousand of magazine articles, softback booklets, coffee-table books, forums and sites about SAAs, but Kuhnhausen's Colt book is special. it's so packed with solid/intelligent info about all Colt-style SAAs that i was a bit overwhelmed. his depth of knowledge made me feel like a rank beginner.

but man-oh-man, i learned piles of new info in just the first ten minutes of thumbing thru it.

its definitely worth owning.