converted or not converted....

[ready05]

On a 3 screw super blackhawk, how can you tell if the lockwork has been converted or not ? thanks

 

[c.r.]

probably the easiest way is to look and see if it has a transfer bar installed. Or at least that's the only way "I" can tell.

~c.r.

edit.....I also believe, if it happens to be a 3 screw SBH you're looking at, I believe when they conversion was done, the traditional SBH hammer, was replaced with the taller "Blackhawk"/traditional SAA hammer.

 

[Ale-8(1)]

I'm sure someone will post pictures soon, but until then . . .

If the face of the hammer is flat, it is the original, not converted.

If the face of the hammer has a "step" in it, it's a conversion hammer.

Also, of course, in a converted gun there will be a transfer bar device down in there between the hammer and the firing pin, as c.r. mentions.




Edit . . . Dang it c.r. you're right about that. The Super Blackhawk conversion hammer is just a regular flat-sided Blackhawk style without the nice wide thumb piece of an OM Super hammer.

 

[flatgate]

Converted OM Supers have smooth triggers. Original OM Supers have grooved triggers.

Converted OM Rugers have New Model base pins that have a spring loaded plunger on the end. OM Rugers have solid steel base pins w/o the plunger.

As mentioned by others, inspecting the hammer is the easiest way to tell.......

flatgate

 

[joe812]

They be right. But to mention for fun, my New Model Vaqueros don't have transfer bars.

 

[Ale-8(1)]

All Ruger Vaqueros are shipped from The Factory with transfer bars.

If your guns don't have them, they have been removed, and the actions modified accordingly.

Your guns, your choice.


:?

 

[TDF]

Converted OM Supers have smooth triggers. Original OM Supers have grooved triggers.

Not all SBH conversion triggers are smooth. We've had this discussion before. Check your parts bin flatgate I think you'll find one in there.

TDF

 

[flatgate]

Ah, yes, I believe the serrated triggers are "a new thing"...

I'm stuck in the last Century.....

flatgate

 

[Ale-8(1)]

I kinda like it back here in the previous century . . .



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