The Colt SAA would have made us all know what we were missing LOL
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I somedays wish I could UnNew my NewModels. Maybe one day I will do just that for fun...weld it up and make one a 3 Screw.
Talk about lawyer fodder!!!
There are kits/parts to do just that available out there. Power Custom comes to mind. Well they won't make a three screw but they give the half cock and the operation of the OM.
It would be MINE..or one of my Son's..we don't do lawyers.
I will make sure it is a Stainless one, and Remove the Lawyer Billboard for good measure.
I'm talking actually with OM internals and Screws.
(I can feel the Torches and Pitchforks coming in the distance..Before anyone says "You Can't Do That", with 50yrs in the Welding and Machining Trade...yes, yes I can...I have a shop full of equipment..It could be amusing..LOL)
I get the collectible thing, but to be honest I have two old models (om) and several new models (nm) and other than a bit nicer trigger I don't see (and likely never will) that the mystique of the om trigger outweighs the value of a nm being able to "safely" carry six, having stainless steel models, Bisley grip frames with a wide spur hammer and factory support without worry they'd modify it upon receipt.
What do you think something like that would cost? I mean if you were doing it for someone other than yourself.
And the bleeping, a reminder to check the kid in the back seatRather than teach new drivers how to adjust their car mirrors, we now have a convex right side mirror, little blinking lights and beeps to tell them when a car is on their side, also a brake interlock pedal so children left in a running car cannot shift into drive, a low tire pressure warning system, rear view mirrors that go dark when a car in in back of you at night with their lights on, incessant beeping until your seat belts are fastened, trunk and door ajar warnings and more all for a driver in a two foot square seat in a car.
We shouldn't expect it to get better, lawyers and morons made this over reach on safety happen and morons, lawyers and sympathetic jury members will make it continue. Then there's OSHA
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I wouldn't...
I have done things for myself nobody else can afford to pay me to do for them. Spoking wheels, rebuilding carburettors are two. For 20 years i picked up broken violins and guitars and repaired them, and kept my musical nephew in instruments while in school. Most were challenges, teaching myself how, and got traded-up for his next gotta-have. The spirit of hoss-tradin' is alive and well.
I actually asked this question on another forum, and the answer is yes. You can convert a NM to an OM. You can also buy OM pre-conversion parts to unconvert a converted OM.
To use the conversion hammer in a NM, you would also need to use the conversion cylinder latch (AKA bolt) and latch spring as shown in the conversion kit in the center of this photo. Pawls are interchangeable. If you grind off the trigger's extension for the transfer bar, NM or conversion triggers can also be used in non-converted OMs.
The third screw is unnecessary in this case and would purely be aesthetic.
No more than any other accidental discharge. If you handle a gun "unsafely" and someone gets shot, you'll be lucky if you only face a lawsuit.
It cracks me up how similar the OM/NM debate/argument is to the Ford/Chevy debate/argument. If someone were to ever jump my crap about an OM being unsafe, I might just show them how well the grip works as a club....
Why?
Why is any of your business? If you're worried about safety, don't shoot with him.
An 80ish shooter has done this for how many decades and is still here -- sounds like he's doing something right but you're not happy that he's not doing it "your way"? Leave the old dude alone! (Figuratively or literally)
You would take a hammer to someone else's revolver? What's wrong with you?
Then let him the frak alone! Why do you want to control him?
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Excuse me all to Hell for trying to get the guy to handle his revolver safely. Do you have any other opinions? I had a conversation with the guy about loading 5 versus 6 in his Old Model Single-Six. I wasn't nasty or preachy about it. He and I were talking about shooting and Ruger single action revolvers and I asked if he loaded 5 or 6. I am not trying to control him. Now go find something else to amuse yourself....
It is kind of like asking a guy if he uses a condom when having sex with his girlfriend...wife or significant other.
I've been loading six for the last 50+yrs...the only "accidents" I've had are twin sons conceived on the night Feb 14 1984...LOL
Perhaps you should also ask him if he uses the "Safety Notch", and IF he is Sure all the internals are in perfect working order..if he does and you smack it with a Hammer...NOTHING will happen..except you may actually damage the Hammer and or Trigger.
I've been loading six for the last 50+yrs...the only "accidents" I've had are twin sons conceived on the night Feb 14 1984...LOL
Perhaps you should also ask him if he uses the "Safety Notch", and IF he is Sure all the internals are in perfect working order..if he does and you smack it with a Hammer...NOTHING will happen..except you may actually damage the Hammer and or Trigger.
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If I was going to demonstrate with a hammer it would be with permission and on a full chamber with the firing pin in contact with the primer or rim of the fully loaded cylinder. Loading 6 and immediately shooting at the range or at targets is one thing. Carrying with 6 is another story. I don't want to see anyone get hurt by something that is so easy to do safely.
If you have talked to him, and he is not receptive, then you decide if you are comfortable shooting with him, but that particular conversation is done. This is beginning to sound more and more like "I'm triggered!!! Support me by telling me how wrong he is!!!!
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