Back in the 70's I bought a brand new Super Blackhawk that was marked "made in the 200th year of American Liberty" so it must have been 1976. This gun developed the problem that when you tried to cock it the transfer bar would hang up under the firing pin jamming it. If you pointed it toward the sky you could only then successfully cock the weapon. Gravity would take over causing the transfer bar to fall back toward the hammer allowing the action to get it's panties out of a wad.
Well I got rid of that harlot and have sworn off Ruger new models ever since as just a poor design that fixed something that wasn't broke and broke something that was fixed; simplicity and reliability that has kept the single action revolver going in frontiers and areas remote from gunsmiths all out of proportion to other concerns of obsolescence for what? decades? nay! centuries!
I eventually replaced that so called new and improved Blackhawk with an old model made in the 50's which works 100%. You just have to load 1, skip 1, load 4, and rest the hammer down on the empty chamber as people have done for the last 150 years, frivolous lawsuit attorneys and their damn foolish gun neophyte leg shooting clients notwithstanding.
The other day I was about to exit the gun shop flush with cash clutched in my fist from a gun sale when a fancy looking snubbie caught my eye in the gun counter. It was a polished SP101 .357 2" which I had never seen before.
Well that little revolver felt great in my hand, looked great, and just that quick I was seduced out of a goodly portion of my funds as though the fancy little thing was a reincarnated stripper or lady of ill repute who had caught a glimpse of my bankroll and charmed me out of it just like the pro she was. Easy come, easy go. I departed the grinning fool with my new companion.
But the trollop SP101 has a transfer bar you say? It's not a question of "if" but "when" she let's me down and breaks my heart? Maybe so, but I still love her just the same.
And so having taken the long way around the bush, so to speak, is the issue I once encountered with my old love Super Blackhawk unheard of amongst the double action Rugers or is it more reliable and central to the design or have they found a way to make it 100% reliable or is there any gunsmithing solutions to this problem/concern?
Well I got rid of that harlot and have sworn off Ruger new models ever since as just a poor design that fixed something that wasn't broke and broke something that was fixed; simplicity and reliability that has kept the single action revolver going in frontiers and areas remote from gunsmiths all out of proportion to other concerns of obsolescence for what? decades? nay! centuries!
I eventually replaced that so called new and improved Blackhawk with an old model made in the 50's which works 100%. You just have to load 1, skip 1, load 4, and rest the hammer down on the empty chamber as people have done for the last 150 years, frivolous lawsuit attorneys and their damn foolish gun neophyte leg shooting clients notwithstanding.
The other day I was about to exit the gun shop flush with cash clutched in my fist from a gun sale when a fancy looking snubbie caught my eye in the gun counter. It was a polished SP101 .357 2" which I had never seen before.
Well that little revolver felt great in my hand, looked great, and just that quick I was seduced out of a goodly portion of my funds as though the fancy little thing was a reincarnated stripper or lady of ill repute who had caught a glimpse of my bankroll and charmed me out of it just like the pro she was. Easy come, easy go. I departed the grinning fool with my new companion.
But the trollop SP101 has a transfer bar you say? It's not a question of "if" but "when" she let's me down and breaks my heart? Maybe so, but I still love her just the same.
And so having taken the long way around the bush, so to speak, is the issue I once encountered with my old love Super Blackhawk unheard of amongst the double action Rugers or is it more reliable and central to the design or have they found a way to make it 100% reliable or is there any gunsmithing solutions to this problem/concern?