mrbumps
Blackhawk
After a morning of shooting with a friend, I decided to stop at a local gun shop on the way home. They had just taken in a bunch of used Blackhawks, all from the same individual. I noticed a short barreled stainless in 45 Colt, and knew they didn't make them in stainless anymore, so I asked to see it. They were asking $499 for it, which I thought was a little high, but then I noticed it had a Bowen Base Pin in it, then I noticed it also had a Bowen Rough Country rear sight installed. I opened the loading gate and spun the cylinder, no click, free spin pawl. Closed the gate and pulled the hammer back to "half-cock" and then noticed the Power Custom Hammer and Trigger, with indexed loading at half-cock. Nice crisp 3.5 lb trigger pull. Not sure the shop realized these improvements had been made, but I ended up taking it home for $475. When I got home I found the chamber throats had not been reamed. A .450 pin gauge would slip through, but a .451 would not. So I reamed them out to .4525 and will test it out next week.