BCRider
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So I've got a .36 caliber brass framed '51 that I've sold to a club mate. The gun is in really nice shape but it has/had a few issues. Which may explain why I got it for pretty cheap. I'm trying to correct the sight picture for the guy since the front sight is barely visible over the "horizon" of the rear edge of the barrel.
It's able to shoot now (hammer would not stay cocked before due to a badly rounded trigger sear edge. Made and heat treated a new trigger) but the hammer comes so far back to correctly lock up the cylinder for firing that the notch in the end of the hammer is seeing mostly the top of the barrel and very little of the front sight.
If the hammer did not need to come back so far it would be fine. Even about 8 to 10° less would leave the end of the hammer about .03" higher and up where it could work just fine. But if it is that far up the cylinder doesn't lock up worth a hoot. So does this mean that it really needs a new longer hand so the hammer does not need to come back so far? Of course then I'd need to alter the sear to "catch" the hammer at this new point. But that would be fine since the new trigger would have a longer sear than needed for this new condition. I'd have to check where the "click" for the hand reset occurs though. if there's enough room then I'd be fine with a longer hand.
It's able to shoot now (hammer would not stay cocked before due to a badly rounded trigger sear edge. Made and heat treated a new trigger) but the hammer comes so far back to correctly lock up the cylinder for firing that the notch in the end of the hammer is seeing mostly the top of the barrel and very little of the front sight.
If the hammer did not need to come back so far it would be fine. Even about 8 to 10° less would leave the end of the hammer about .03" higher and up where it could work just fine. But if it is that far up the cylinder doesn't lock up worth a hoot. So does this mean that it really needs a new longer hand so the hammer does not need to come back so far? Of course then I'd need to alter the sear to "catch" the hammer at this new point. But that would be fine since the new trigger would have a longer sear than needed for this new condition. I'd have to check where the "click" for the hand reset occurs though. if there's enough room then I'd be fine with a longer hand.