George Seashock
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- Mar 7, 2020
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Hi guys, I've been a ruger single action fan for most of my 40 years of buying "good" guns and never had a problem except for the occasional not so hot trigger, but nothing that turned me off to them.
As I got older I became a little more of a purist and for some reason the transfer bar kind of turned me off so I bought a USFA Rodeo which was near perfect, but it had a sharp spot where the grip frame mated to the main frame on one side. That, and the matte finish kind of put me off but it was obviously very high quality and a great shooter. When USFA went out of business I sold it for a very nice profit, but the SAA bug bit me again so I bought a used Uberti without a transfer bar quite inexpensively. It was beautiful, glossy and shot to point of aim. I was obsessed, and could not resist shooting (dry firiring) at all the bad guys on Gun smoke.
Eventually I noticed that the cylinder started to get hard to turn (cocking the gun) at the range. I thought what could have
gone wrong. Well a quick inspection revealed that from dry firing the steel around the firing pin had peen out slightly, causing the cartridges to drag on said peemed pin hole. It was an easy fix with a little emory cloth and elbow grease but I learned my lesson and will NEVER dry fire a non-transfer bar revolver of any sort again.
I know most of you know this but for those wondering if it's ok to dry fire your hammer-mounted pin SAA I say absolutely not.
The thing is I always see guys including Hickock 45 dry firing on the empty 6th chamber. I don't get it.
As I got older I became a little more of a purist and for some reason the transfer bar kind of turned me off so I bought a USFA Rodeo which was near perfect, but it had a sharp spot where the grip frame mated to the main frame on one side. That, and the matte finish kind of put me off but it was obviously very high quality and a great shooter. When USFA went out of business I sold it for a very nice profit, but the SAA bug bit me again so I bought a used Uberti without a transfer bar quite inexpensively. It was beautiful, glossy and shot to point of aim. I was obsessed, and could not resist shooting (dry firiring) at all the bad guys on Gun smoke.
Eventually I noticed that the cylinder started to get hard to turn (cocking the gun) at the range. I thought what could have
gone wrong. Well a quick inspection revealed that from dry firing the steel around the firing pin had peen out slightly, causing the cartridges to drag on said peemed pin hole. It was an easy fix with a little emory cloth and elbow grease but I learned my lesson and will NEVER dry fire a non-transfer bar revolver of any sort again.
I know most of you know this but for those wondering if it's ok to dry fire your hammer-mounted pin SAA I say absolutely not.
The thing is I always see guys including Hickock 45 dry firing on the empty 6th chamber. I don't get it.