To or not to convert a 3 screw Super Blackhawk

[dickydalton]

Disagree on both counts. If you're doing something wrong and it goes off, it's YOUR fault. That's negligence. Accidents are beyond your control. It's a nice out for those responsible, just like referring to car crashes as "accidents". No, it's usually somebody's fault.

The lawsuits originated from people that dropped their Blackhawk while it was fully loaded. Not manipulating the hammer. If you follow the basic safety rules and never point it at anything you do not want to destroy, ESPECIALLY when you're thumbing the hammer, it is no issue at all.



Good Lord, this nanny state we live in sure has made people afraid of the silliest things. I wonder how we ever survived for 140yrs before Ruger's transfer bar.

Iver Johnson was using transfer bars and Glock style triggers in the 1880s, Ruger didn't invent them.

 

[CraigC]

Iver Johnson was using transfer bars and Glock style triggers in the 1880s, Ruger didn't invent them.

Nobody said he did but we're talking about Ruger's transfer bar in their revolvers, not Iver Johnson.

 

[41 Rem Mag]

I have three old model Ruger Blackhawks, 357, 41 and 44 all un-converted, I love the trigger pull and action of them, I would be afraid the transfer system would add a higher trigger pull and change the feel of them. I am very careful when shooting them and would never carry one with 6 in the cylinder.

 

[dickydalton]

Sorry I brought it up.

 

[Old Fuff]

Actually you're right. I had a conversation with Mr. Ruger one time and pointed this out to him. He responded that this was true, but he was the first to adapt the transfer bar to a single action revolver. He also knew full well the original patents that Iver Johnson held were long expired.

His problem was that he was getting run into the ground by lawsuit judgments that were awarded to individuals (or their survivors) who had been shot because of ignorance or carelessness, and the jury decided that it was all the gun's fault. He considered the second issue single-actions to be necessary self defense. The alternative was to drop all of the S.A. style revolvers and take them out of production. He really didn’t want to do that.

 

[Billy Jack]

Just to follow up.

The 3 screw Super Blackhawk is in the local gun store ready to satisfy it's next owner. I made the gun store owner happy by offering to trade him my easily saleable, highly sought after, 3 screw Ruger for a long gun that he was finding hard to sell.

I was looking for something different than what I had already. But I wanted to stay with the same calibers (44 and 45-70) to keep life simple.

I left the Ruger to find a worthy home and I left the store with a 2004 model H & R Buffalo Classic 45-70, 2 boxes of Remington 405gr SP's, and $75 cash in hand.

I can shoot the 405 factory stuff out of my 3 45-70's and have some brass left over to load my 450 gr cast boolits which I prefer.

Now everybody is "happy, happy, happy" as Phil would say.

 

[tipoc]

There is no reason to convert an old gun. Leave it be.

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