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I know calling them '58's isn't really correct but that's what people know them as. Okay so I managed to go 25 years without owning or shooting any Remingtons - because they don't fit my hands. But recently I won a set of Pietta cap guns which gave me the Remmie bug and then bought a set of Uberti conversions. I figured I can shoot them just fine as long as I use two hands. The Ubertis are .38's (New Model Navy) and I've already shot them in 3 matches. The timing on them seems very much like my Richards-Masons, with 3 clicks and the bolt popping up into the bolt notch ramp on click two. I noticed that original conversions also have the ramp to the notch so should have the bolt head pop up into the ramp. Now on the Pietta .44 there is no ramp to the notch (same as originals). And there are only two clicks, because the hammer hitting full cock and the bolt popping up directly into the notch happen at exactly the same time. So my question is if this is correct? It just seems like it would make it more likely for to get over-rotation when cocked fast with two hands, which the originals weren't designed for. I haven't ordered any conversion cylinders yet, trying to decide which way to go on these, but the action on the Piettas is horrendously heavy. If you back out on the strain screws then the hammer actually gets worse, I expect because the main spring is too long and is dragging on the hammer, so I'll be looking at that. The Uberti strain screws were also way too long, so until I can shorten them I removed them and added a small spacer in the hammer spring slot to get the right tension and they feel very good.