Woo Hoo.... a 30 Carbine Blackhawk

oldmanruger · Jun 15, 2017

Been wanting one to add a 30 to my BH collection.... visited a out of town GS and they recently acquired one in an estate buy.... said they have purchased several collections lately.... This is a '97 and unfired

Fairly priced too....

pisgah · Jun 16, 2017

oldmanruger said:
Been wanting one to add a 30 to my BH collection.... visited a out of town GS and they recently acquired one in an estate buy.... said they have purchased several collections lately.... This is a '97 and unfired Priced fairly too....

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I never realized before how much a Blackhawk resembles a long string of metadata... :wink:

oldmanruger · Jun 16, 2017

crap.... i'll get the upload photos deal from photobucket correct one of these days...

Lngstrt · Jun 16, 2017

How are you getting all that long line of ..... html(?)

I upload to PB, go to 'Library', find the pic .... off to the right is a box labeled 'IMG'. I click there, the word 'Copied' pops up and I paste the text to the various forums. The line of txt is pretty short

http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp1/Lngstrt3/IMG_2591%20copy_zpsyw9tsl26.jpg

with ....... at the front
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and at the end.

oldmanruger · Jun 17, 2017

Thanks Lngstrt!!!

just a plain jane blackhawk, but, the hunt is a fun part of collecting, no matter what it is....

contender · Jun 17, 2017

Nice,,,, ! (Now you need to find an OM one,,,,,,,,,,! And yes,,, I'm an enabler,,,,!

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jimbo1096 · Jun 17, 2017

Yep, those old models are much more fun to shoot!

oldmanruger · Jun 18, 2017

Contender.... yes you are, the best kind

I like short nosed BH's image a 'what if' they made a 4 5/8" 30!! a masochist ( a person who enjoys an activity that appears to be painful or tedious) would be required to shoot it..... sign me up LOL

sixshot · Jun 18, 2017

Never seen a 30 Carbine Blackhawk that wasn't super accurate & I've owned quite a few of them. Fast, flat, a bit noisy but man do they ever shoot! Plus, with the new models you can shoot 32/20's with just a little bit of tweaking.

Dick

contender · Jun 18, 2017

I see an experienced enabler has also chimed in!

Domino300 · Jun 19, 2017

sixshot said:
Never seen a 30 Carbine Blackhawk that wasn't super accurate & I've owned quite a few of them. Fast, flat, a bit noisy but man do they ever shoot! Plus, with the new models you can shoot 32/20's with just a little bit of tweaking.

Dick

Dick, what is the "tweaking" one can do, I have a 1975 BH in 30 carbine, bought a box of 32-20s, they won't chamber. I don't have 32-20 dies, do have 30 Carbine, and a case trimmer.
Doug

veeman · Jun 19, 2017

Never had to do any tweaking with my 30 Carbine, works great with 32-20 brass. I usually use loads in the 32 mag range.

WendyZXZ · Jun 19, 2017

Looks like a fine addition there!

cas6969 · Jun 20, 2017

After opening the throats on mine from .305 to .308, it was a shooter. Had no trouble putting all the rounds in a cylinder on a paper plate at 200 yards. (and off field rests, trees and such, not sandbags.)

Silly me, I used it as a donor gun for a conversion. Of course I don't know if I could see a paper plate at 200 yards now, so it might have worked out.

JStacy · Jun 28, 2017

I have had a couple and some were excellent shooters some+/- . The not great ones usually had cylinder throats less than .308 . CAS did the right thing to his gun.

Fox Mike · Jun 28, 2017

I have kicked myself many time for not buying one when I had the chance. My LGS had an old model for a while and I let it pass and bought a Single Six instead. 20/20 hindsight is great.

Don Lovel · Jun 29, 2017

I think the .30 Carbine caliber Blackhawks are amongst the loudest handguns I have ever fired

jimbo1096 · Jul 6, 2017

Don Lovel said:
I think the .30 Carbine caliber Blackhawks are amongst the loudest handguns I have ever fired

But the .357 Max loaded up with H110 is close!
I love my OM 30 carbine, but hate the Tula ammo I bought, that the steel cases won't eject from the cylinder half the time.

Lngstrt · Jul 6, 2017

Don Lovel said:
I love my OM 30 carbine, but hate the Tula ammo I bought, that the steel cases won't eject from the cylinder half the time.

Ditto .... We tried Wolf black box a few years ago. Smokey and had to drop the cylinder to get the empties out.

single action · Jul 6, 2017

Buy really good hearing protection IMHO Bob

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