That 44 Special is a looker!! Bisley hammers add that extra "elegance" for lack of a better term.....My first from Alan Harton circa 2003. A special 44 Special.
My last, a 44 Mag.
A Bowen 44 Special from back in the day you could buy one direct from his site.
So, no ROA conversion fans ?
You may be right. "Drop cylinder" conversions are a little annoying and since all mine are gated except for the ROA's, I have been on a mission to fix that, off and on, for 10 years!! I talk with Walt often and now FINALLY I've got this as a "proof of concept" conversion. It's just more convenient to load and unload with cylinder remaining on board.Folks might have missed that it was a conversion.
Well, it's not available (at least not yet), like I said mine is the first. This is definitely a CUSTOM ( as the threads title), it's the ONLY but discussion is appreciated. Walt would like to offer it.
The "gate" isn't necessarily the important part to this particular equation, the fact that you can "load" and "unload" with the cyl. installed is the major issue. I will install a gate after initial range trip. The redesign of the ratchet to allow insertion of the rounds is the major problem with the ROA.
Yeah thats a really cool 3 screw
What an awesome snubWell, we could try and get it back on course.But I guess if we need to carry on the horse theme we could go with a Shetland pony I suppose.
This gun is rather divisive, a regular love it or leave it.
Came to me as a parts pile. No base pin, no grips and damaged barrel and ERH.
Seems that when they stripped the hole where you attach the ejector rod housing they simply attempted to weld the housing to the barrel.
Well , that did not work and the parts were trashed.
As the barrel needed to be replaced anyway, I figured I had nothing to lose,,,,,,,,, Hacksaw snubby time.
Along the way it got an RW grip frame and a SBH hammer and a Bisley trigger. The dovetailed front sight was supposd to be changed for somthing better looking after I tuned it to the proper height. But it is working so well I never get around to swapping it out.
Not a gun for full house 44 ammo but a "Hoot to Shoot" when downloaded.
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That Horton and Bowen are beautiesMy first from Alan Harton circa 2003. A special 44 Special.
My last, a 44 Mag.
A Bowen 44 Special from back in the day you could buy one direct from his site.
Yessir, they have a half cock notch but the problem is the design of the "hole pattern" instead of a normal ratchet. The circumference of which isn't cartridge clearance friendly.
I believe I swapped a M94 45 Colt with you when you lived outside Houston.
No, I saw your post. They look nice but personally I prefer Kirst cylinders so I can shoot tier2 ammo. The Howell type cylinders don't have 100% support for the cartridge case to back up to. I have 5 ROA's and they're the only ones with drop cylinders, I prefer gated conversions. All my other conversions have gated Kirst conversions.
I Lived just outside the Cut 'N Shoot Texas town limits for 30 years, and distinctly remember buying a chrome plated OM .357 Blackhawk from you, and later meeting you somewhere close to Porter Texas to swap some gun parts....And now that you mention it, I did have a M94 Winchester rifle in .45-Colt caliber that I used to keep in my hot-shot truck when running interstate loads. I can't remember exactly where I got that one so yeah, it's possible that it came from you too.....I'm thinking that those events had to be around 20-25 years ago....At any rate, the Blackhawk in my post#51 is not the gun I got from you. Your's was much nicer. Almost too nice to shoot really.
Thank you.....IMNSHO, those old Blackhawks were purty-much Ruger's high water mark.
No your not!!!
