She's Back!

[BucolicBuffalo]

My 200th Year 357 Blackhawk is back from the factory. Great folks out there! A bunch of new internals. I really like how the new stainless hardware looks, and feels.

She has had a huge amount of rounds put though her in the past. Not so much in recent years. Now the Ranger is gone and I don't tournament fish any longer, I intend to spend a lot of time shooting.

You cannot see it, but Doug at cylinderhone.net dealt with the cylinder in this one and my 45LC recently. Not an ad, just a satisfied customer.

 

[Kevin]

Nice looking gun, and boy! are those some big grips. And your bench is too clean... all the case holders all lined up in a row.

 

[BucolicBuffalo]

Thanks! Those are Jay Scott grips. Really comfortable.

That's just a little piece of the bench. I need to get some more junk out of this room so I can find a nice little shelf unit for some of the stuff.

 

[Cholo]

The blue and grip frame look outstanding! Factory refinish? Why did they have to change your trigger and hammer?

 

[BucolicBuffalo]

That's the original blue.

I went shooting. Decided to clean and oil it good and pulled the grip frame. I have never gone beyond that point. I can reach everything inside and make sure it's oiled. Reassembled and it acted up. It cocked and then locked up. Of course I wondered what the heck I had done or forgot. I was using the schematic and instructions as it had been many years. I pulled it apart several times and it just kept having some problem.

I finally took it totally down. I was examining the hammer and the spring plunger wasn't sprung. It seemed to be stuck and appeared bent. I was thinking over and over "How the heck did I do that?" Simply pushing on the spring loaded plunger with my thumb lightly and it would not move. I knew it was spring loaded. Pressing on it sideways to see if it would free it enough to move and it broke and then the spring shot it across the bench. I could find nothing else wrong. Worn, yeah.

So I ordered that spring, plunger, and a new pin. Got it in. Put it all back together. It cocked just fine. Pulling the trigger only dropped the hammer to the half-cock position. At this point I was disgusted and knew I needed help with it. I just do not understand how this happened, when I had removed the grip frame in the past several times and was careful getting it back together.

The hammer was worn on an angle where the sear notch is. I can only assume that wear got to a point where it was a problem. Off it went to Ruger with an explanation letter. And I just happened to mention that if they had to fool with the hammer, that maybe a Super Blackhawk hammer would look really nice in there. Or something to that effect. I guess they took pity on me and replaced both the hammer and trigger with stainless SBH versions for me. Thanks Ruger!

 

[WendyZXZ]

She came back looking great!

 

[Rick Courtright]

That's just a little piece of the bench. I need to get some more junk out of this room so I can find a nice little shelf unit for some of the stuff.

Hi,

Wow! I was just about getting ready to bet Kevin you'd borrowed part of Mama's floor for those shots...

Rick C

 

[BucolicBuffalo]

No, not the floor. I bought a Constitution Reloading bench from American Workbench. It had to be nice enough that I could have it in my office. The tops are oak or ash. I think this one is ash, and I could not build as nice as this is. I'll do a pic some time.

 

[6gun]

No, not the floor. I bought a Constitution Reloading bench from American Workbench. It had to be nice enough that I could have it in my office. The tops are oak or ash. I think this one is ash, and I could not build as nice as this is. I'll do a pic some time.

Your top looks like Ash it's not oak for sure, I used Maple butcher block when building my bench top, it's in my home office slash gun room so I wanted it to look nice.

 

[any ruger]

You have to let some of us work on that bench for a bit we will make it look like a real reloading bench. No room for anything.