Colt detective special

[Old Fuff]

I will speculate that on some or all chambers the cylinder is failing to "carry up," or fully rotate from one chamber to the next. This is usually blamed on a worn hand, but hands are seldom worn because wear is caused by a part rubbing against something while under pressure, and hands don't do that.

It is more likely (if someone didn't screw with the internal parts) that the pin on the hand is slightly bent so that the hand pushes against the ratchet tooth further outboard, and as a consequence doesn't rotate the cylinder as far.

Or the crane is slightly sprung so that the hand comes up against the ratchet tooth and pushes sideways as well as upward, with the same result.

And maybe it's a combination of both.

Anyway, I suggest that if Numrich has new hands (you don't want one that was fitted to a different gun) you buy one and then take it in and hand to the 'smith and tell him to go to work.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Who wants them?

They r outdated and according to the Internet, they break every 9 shots.

you're absolutely right. But Old Fluff and I are such nice guys we will take them off your hands anyway.

 

[Old Fuff]

But Old Fluff and I are such nice guys we will take them off your hands anyway.

But only if you pay me too do it. Personally what I do is attach some hooks, have them chrome plated, and use them to troll for fresh-water sharks in Arizona.

 

[Guillermo]

Vern and Fuff...my friends

As much as I appreciate your generous offers, I must politely decline.

Even though they are old with 100 year old lockwork and according to the internet, fragile, I am going to stick with them. Call me sentimental.

Wish me luck because if I ever have the misfortune to need to use them, they are less dependable than a black power gun in a bathyscaphe. I know this to be true because I red it on the WWW.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

You gotta watch that 100 year old lockwork -- my New Service was made in 1906, and I can't hardly shoot more than 50 rounds a day through it.

 

[Old Fuff]

I can cut it up and make it into a Fitz Special

 

[Guillermo]

I can't hardly shoot more than 50 rounds a day through it

some guy with a new S&W filled with injection molded parts and an IL told me that an old Colt can't shoot 50 rounds without shooting out of time.

I guess you are not putting powder into the cartridges, just letting the primer push the bullet.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

I can cut it up and make it into a Fitz Special

Shame on you! Shameshameshameshameshame!

I guess you are not putting powder into the cartridges, just letting the primer push the bullet.

Yep. Last deer season, it pushed one clear through a white tail deer.

 

[Guillermo]

Last deer season, it pushed one clear through a white tail deer

them there are some powerful strong primers!!!

 

[Vern Humphrey]

them there are some powerful strong primers!!!

Strong enough that the trigger guard rapped my knuckle. I had to whittle out a set of magna-style stocks out of a piece of scrap walnut.

 

[Guillermo]

I love handgun hunting. Be it white tails or bushy tails, it is a lot of fun as well as adding to the challenge.

My K22 killed a fair pile of tree rats last winter (as much as we have winter in central Texas)

It is great to hear your New Service is still giving good service.


If you want to improve it, Old Fuff can cut the trigger guard and lighten the load for you.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

I love handgun hunting. Be it white tails or bushy tails, it is a lot of fun as well as adding to the challenge.

My K22 killed a fair pile of tree rats last winter (as much as we have winter in central Texas)

It is great to hear your New Service is still giving good service.

For small game, I use my Colt Officers Model Target or Woodsman -- both have killed a boxcar load of squirrels. I'm fortunate enough to live on 185 acres of mostly wooded land in the Ozarks, where we have both gray and fox squirrels in abundence.

If you want to improve it, Old Fuff can cut the trigger guard and lighten the load for you.

Bite your tongue!

 

[Guillermo]

I use my Colt Officers Model Target

I just bought one of those

It has been a LONG time since I have been this excited about a gun!!!

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=666978

 

[Vern Humphrey]

They are indeed classic revolvers. Don't you just love the adjustable front sight?

 

[Old Fuff]

Shame on you! Shameshameshameshameshame!

You just don't understand...

The New Service is a very heavy gun and cutting off the front half of the trigger guard and bobbing the hammer spur can reduce some of it.

Then next most of the barrel goes...

 

[Guillermo]

He has been wanted to get his hands on this one for a while.

His excuse is "since the barrel is messed up where someone took some steel wool to it, it might as well go"

 

[Vern Humphrey]

You just don't understand...

The New Service is a very heavy gun and cutting off the front half of the trigger guard and bobbing the hammer spur can reduce some of it.

Then next most of the barrel goes...

Get thee behind me Satan, ah, Fitz.

Actually, I've thought of trimming the barrel back to 5" and installing an adjustable rear sight.

 

[Old Fuff]

Actually, I've thought of trimming the barrel back to 5" and installing an adjustable rear sight.

I wouldn't. It would weaken the topstrap at the back by the cylinder window and it would be difficult to get a front sight that wasn't ugly. If you can't get by with it "as is," consider buying a S&W or Ruger.

 

[Old Fuff]

He has been wanted to get his hands on this one for a while.

His excuse is "since the barrel is messed up where someone took some steel wool to it, it might as well go"

Poor baby...

But a hacksaw will get rid of most the damage.

Many years ago Charles Askins landed an assignment to write a magazine article explaining how to make a do-it-yourself snubby. Looking at his mottly collection of old hardware his eyes fell on a poor, helpless Colt Officers Model.

"Well money is money" he thought, as he set up his camera and reached for a hacksaw.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

I wouldn't. It would weaken the topstrap at the back by the cylinder window and it would be difficult to get a front sight that wasn't ugly. If you can't get by with it "as is," consider buying a S&W or Ruger

It already has an ugly front sight and a widened rear sight notch -- but your comments on weakening the topstrap are on point.

 

[Guillermo]

your comments on weakening the topstrap are on point

the Fuffster is rarely wrong.

In fact I can think of very few times he disagrees with me

 

[Old Fuff]

the "Fuffster" is never wrong...

But occasionally confused...

 

[Guillermo]

confused...is THAT what you call it?

 

[royal barnes]

I read whatever he writes. I'd love to be that "confused".

 

[Guillermo]

psst...Royal,

Don't tell Old Fuff...but I have the utmost respect for him. He is only wrong about two things.

He is not only really smart and with gobs of experience, he also is a great guy. Helped me out on multiple occasions.

But don't tell him. He is already buying his hats at the same place as Jack (as in Jack in the Box burgers)