Hondo44 said:
The raw casting surface on the front edge of the hammer is perfectly normal although can vary from not very rough to very rough. It means the hammer was in spec right out of the mold, That's a good thing because it minimizes machining operations, which minimizes cost to consumers.
You'll notice one side has a rounded corner and the other is a knife edge.
I hate both and remove hammer, surface sand with a Dremel polishing wheel and than buff with stainless (white) rough. I also chamfer and polish the knife edge corner to match the other, and all around the upper hammer face lightly.
Thanks for this information. I can live with the hammer face, just struck me as odd. All around this gun was not as nicely done as I had expected from ruger. I've only owned two other rugers and one was a Mark IV hunter that I just purchased as well and that thing is beautifully done. I paid quite a price for this SBH Bisley hunter and I am being a bit nit picky but that completely unfinished hammer face stuck out to me, as well as an odd denting on the ejector housing that looks like it was put there either by straitening it or clamping it into a vice, also i noticed the scope mount half moon cut outs were not done evenly at all , all a little higher or lower then one another. Just a bit suprising to me, but again, all nit picky things I can live with. Still a big nice hunk of stainless steel. Im sure ruger would fix all of these minor issues if I sent it back but they are simply not bad enough for me to lose my gun for a month, and to cost Ruger time and money. Hopefully it shoots strait I plan to run a lot of rounds through it in the coming year.