I bought my 3" Sp101 in December 2006. I love this gun. I always have. I fell in love with it even before I bought it. The look, the balance...it's just about perfect.
Anyway, having owned it for a year, I decided I was going to go all out and send it to Marc Morganti at Gemini Customs to let him do his thing and get let me get the most from this sweetheart of a gun. I spoke with him several times about what work to do, and the process of sending it away, etc... I had never shipped a gun before so I had no idea.
I sent the gun away on Dec 26th, the day after X-mas. I heard from Marc. he got the gun, all was well. I should have it back in 4-6 weeks, but it might be a little longer because he is gearing up for the SHOT show.
Well, come last tuesday, Jan 22nd, look what shows up at my door!!!! and only 3.5 weeks after sending it in!!!
http://s263.photobucket.com/albums/ii131/geminifan/
I couldn't be happier. The fit and finish of everything is just amazing now. really nice. I love the radiused trigger. I can finally shoot without the annoying bite on my finger. The meltdown/dehorning/whatever you want to call it, is just fantastic. The whole gun is soft and smooth. The trigger pull is very very good. I'll tell ya the truth, I actually still prefer the trigger pull of my 19-3. But then again, the old K-frames are legendary for that, and I think that gun may have had trigger work done on it at some time in it's past, because it is just as smooth as any Python I've felt. But this SP101 now has a really nice smooth 10Lb trigger pull. I specifically discussed with Marc, which weight spring to put in there for reliable primer ignition. We decided that by keeping the hammer, and using 10 lbs rather than 9lbs, it would be reliable. It is. Marc knows what he's talking about. I fired 150 rounds of CCI blazer, and CCI uses the hardest primers. I didn't have one failure. I also can't say enough good things about the "Small Wonder" sights. They aren't night sights, and won't work in complete darkness, but honestly, how often are we in complete darkness with absolutely zero ambient light. if there is any ambient light, these things pick it up. You can see from the pic in the photobucket album that the sights create a great sight picture.
I can shoot this gun more accurately than I ever could before. Now when I tell you this, remember that I am no better than an average pistol shooter. for three cylinders full of ammo, I was able to keep every shot (but one flier) on one of those birchwood-casey Shoot-n-See targets at 50 feet, and in fact I cloverleafed some of them. I pretty evenly split those shots between DA and SA trigger pulls. I can also do Old Fuff's 5 shots in five seconds into 5 inches at 5 yards with this gun now. Here is the list of work I got done:
Complete action tuning with 10LB trigger.
Crown barrel
Chamfer cylinder throats
recontour and polish trigger
Dehorn
Eliminate cylinder endshake
Replace springs
Polish plungers/pins
Glass bead blast refinish.
Small Wonder sights installed.
Every one of those was done superbly. This truly is the last gun I'd ever get rid of.
By the way, the grips are Hogue rosewood Monogrips. I bought them used and refinished them by wetsanding with boiled linseed oil.
Overall, i give Gemini Customs a straight A for the work done and for the super turn around time. When I get a GP100, I hope to send it to Gemini as well. Marc is a gentleman and a scholar, and a lovely person to work with. Very professional, and very nice.
Anyway, having owned it for a year, I decided I was going to go all out and send it to Marc Morganti at Gemini Customs to let him do his thing and get let me get the most from this sweetheart of a gun. I spoke with him several times about what work to do, and the process of sending it away, etc... I had never shipped a gun before so I had no idea.
I sent the gun away on Dec 26th, the day after X-mas. I heard from Marc. he got the gun, all was well. I should have it back in 4-6 weeks, but it might be a little longer because he is gearing up for the SHOT show.
Well, come last tuesday, Jan 22nd, look what shows up at my door!!!! and only 3.5 weeks after sending it in!!!
http://s263.photobucket.com/albums/ii131/geminifan/
I couldn't be happier. The fit and finish of everything is just amazing now. really nice. I love the radiused trigger. I can finally shoot without the annoying bite on my finger. The meltdown/dehorning/whatever you want to call it, is just fantastic. The whole gun is soft and smooth. The trigger pull is very very good. I'll tell ya the truth, I actually still prefer the trigger pull of my 19-3. But then again, the old K-frames are legendary for that, and I think that gun may have had trigger work done on it at some time in it's past, because it is just as smooth as any Python I've felt. But this SP101 now has a really nice smooth 10Lb trigger pull. I specifically discussed with Marc, which weight spring to put in there for reliable primer ignition. We decided that by keeping the hammer, and using 10 lbs rather than 9lbs, it would be reliable. It is. Marc knows what he's talking about. I fired 150 rounds of CCI blazer, and CCI uses the hardest primers. I didn't have one failure. I also can't say enough good things about the "Small Wonder" sights. They aren't night sights, and won't work in complete darkness, but honestly, how often are we in complete darkness with absolutely zero ambient light. if there is any ambient light, these things pick it up. You can see from the pic in the photobucket album that the sights create a great sight picture.
I can shoot this gun more accurately than I ever could before. Now when I tell you this, remember that I am no better than an average pistol shooter. for three cylinders full of ammo, I was able to keep every shot (but one flier) on one of those birchwood-casey Shoot-n-See targets at 50 feet, and in fact I cloverleafed some of them. I pretty evenly split those shots between DA and SA trigger pulls. I can also do Old Fuff's 5 shots in five seconds into 5 inches at 5 yards with this gun now. Here is the list of work I got done:
Complete action tuning with 10LB trigger.
Crown barrel
Chamfer cylinder throats
recontour and polish trigger
Dehorn
Eliminate cylinder endshake
Replace springs
Polish plungers/pins
Glass bead blast refinish.
Small Wonder sights installed.
Every one of those was done superbly. This truly is the last gun I'd ever get rid of.
By the way, the grips are Hogue rosewood Monogrips. I bought them used and refinished them by wetsanding with boiled linseed oil.
Overall, i give Gemini Customs a straight A for the work done and for the super turn around time. When I get a GP100, I hope to send it to Gemini as well. Marc is a gentleman and a scholar, and a lovely person to work with. Very professional, and very nice.
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but this comes the closest I've ever seen. Hope you enjoy it.
