waterboy452
Bearcat
- Joined
- Feb 25, 2017
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- 41
Update: My Bisley Flattop arrived on Thursday, as planned. They really worked it over. New cylinder, new loading gate, smoothed action, repaired the cylinder broach area(where ever that is), fitted a set of black laminate grips as I requested, and I think the work order said they replaced the hammer too. I don't have access to the work order right now. Anyhow, it looks much better, and functions better too. Perfect it is not, but I fully realize this is a production gun, not a hand built custom. It still has the hammer catching on something sometimes, but not as bad as before. I think it may be the transfer bar, as the hammer has an area that might need a bit of attention to fix this issue. It also looks like they may have installed and fitted a new grip frame, but I'm not sure about that. Reason I suspect this is the grip frame has a slight overhang on the right side of the cylinder frame. In other words, its not flush. It didn't have this issue before. Also, the hammer pin sits a bit too "proud" above the frame on the right side of the gun too. I shot 24 rounds thru it yesterday, and it seemed to be as accurate as I am. Probably much more so. Trigger pull is still a little over 4 lbs, but I think I can live with that. I didn't mention I wanted it lightened, but maybe I should have. The new cylinder has a slight bit more endshake than the original one did, but its probably well within spec. B/C gap is pretty tight too. I do wish they had resolved the hammer issue a bit better, and the grip frame to cylinder frame fit was better, along with the proud hammer pin. I'm hoping the hammer "catching" issue will fix itself given enough shooting. I may buy some snap caps and work it several hundred times to smooth things out a bit more. I still haven't taken any pics yet, but will try to do so before long.