A Ruger Birdshead Wrangler. Did a Cerakote job for a friend who bought a Wrangler Birdshead revolver for his son's upcoming birthday (I think he'll be 6). The birdshead only comes in a couple colors right now and his son wanted one in OD Green. For those that don't know, to do a proper Cerakote job you disassemble the firearm completely, then prep the parts to be coated (degrease, abrasive blast the surface, degrease again, plug all the holes that you don't want to coat, then spray and cure. In this case the frame and barrel, ERH, grip frame and loading gate got coated.
Then you get to put it all back together. I have never had a revolver this hard to put back together. When I started I was smart enough to put the individual parts in small plastic bags that I labeled and I even took some pictures so I knew how the went back together (like the trigger, transfer bar, cylinder latch, gate detent spring and pawl guide assembly). Even putting the hammer strut/mainspring has to go in a certain way (you have to put it back in before you put any of the grip frame screws in because of it's length vs. the size of the birdshead grip).
It took me 2 hours to get it all back together - and one of the hardest parts was getting the loading gate and spring to to mesh correctly. But I got it back together and it works like it did before I took it apart.
Give me the Six series, GP, Redhawk, SP modularity any day. I can take a Six series apart - to the smallest part - and put it back together in about 15 minutes. If you don't break down the modules, 2 or 3 minutes to put it together.
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Then you get to put it all back together. I have never had a revolver this hard to put back together. When I started I was smart enough to put the individual parts in small plastic bags that I labeled and I even took some pictures so I knew how the went back together (like the trigger, transfer bar, cylinder latch, gate detent spring and pawl guide assembly). Even putting the hammer strut/mainspring has to go in a certain way (you have to put it back in before you put any of the grip frame screws in because of it's length vs. the size of the birdshead grip).
It took me 2 hours to get it all back together - and one of the hardest parts was getting the loading gate and spring to to mesh correctly. But I got it back together and it works like it did before I took it apart.
Give me the Six series, GP, Redhawk, SP modularity any day. I can take a Six series apart - to the smallest part - and put it back together in about 15 minutes. If you don't break down the modules, 2 or 3 minutes to put it together.
Finished product
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