JJHACK
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Well, as luck would have it I have acquired a Freedom Arms .44 magnum. It sorta fell in my lap, not really looking to spend a lot, but I was looking for a Blackhawk with the Bisley grip. By the time I bought something I could "remodel" I would have spent more that on then this Freedom Arms gun. So What the heck.
Now, I have a gun loony friend that went off on the FA revolver yesterday because they are so "dangerous" without a transfer bar safety. He has a strong competitive streak which I really like about him. I can use reverse psychology to get him to do all sorts of stuff I'm not "good enough to do". It's also fun to chat about firearms as he is very intelligent although opinionated as possible about some things.
So I tell him I bought this bank vault that shoots .44 magnum cartridges and he has a field day with my foolish decision. He may be right, the point is irrelevant to me as I never...... NEVER carry a handgun with one up the spout until am going to shoot. For this I have good reason due to a life changing event.
About 1983-85, wish I could be remember better now but it was a while back. I was working in the Bear management program. I had a 357magnum with me in a belt holster, and my employee who was brand new at the time was packing a .44 magnum blackhawk, in a shoulder holster. As we tip toed across a creek from rock to rock trying to pick our way through the shallowest spots He slipped, and that blackhawk slid out of his holster into the creek with a discharge of the gun upon impact. Water sprayed all over both of us.
I was scared from that, but this guy was pale and if he had any sliver of a heart issue he would have died of heart attack right then. He was shook from that and destroyed that gun ( actually sawzall to bits) the day he got home. He was convinced that it was defective.
Now due to the time line, I cannot know today if this was pre-transfer bar, some fluke, or just bizzarro world at that moment. I do know that I have never carried a revolver since that time with a loaded chamber in line with the barrel. There was a lot of directions that bullet could go safely. Thank God it did. Cause that .44 mag would have killed whoever it hit as far away from help as we were.
I'm not concerned about the transfer bar safety at all. I have read the manual and it explains how to set the trigger/hammer on safe mode. I also see clearly how my Smith and Wesson Mountain gun works with the transfer bar which will only allow the gun to fire with the trigger all the way back.
A brilliant design, and likely 100% safe. I don't carry that with 6 rounds either! Just something about having a gun go off by itself when it hits the ground that changes your life for good!
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Now, I have a gun loony friend that went off on the FA revolver yesterday because they are so "dangerous" without a transfer bar safety. He has a strong competitive streak which I really like about him. I can use reverse psychology to get him to do all sorts of stuff I'm not "good enough to do". It's also fun to chat about firearms as he is very intelligent although opinionated as possible about some things.
So I tell him I bought this bank vault that shoots .44 magnum cartridges and he has a field day with my foolish decision. He may be right, the point is irrelevant to me as I never...... NEVER carry a handgun with one up the spout until am going to shoot. For this I have good reason due to a life changing event.
About 1983-85, wish I could be remember better now but it was a while back. I was working in the Bear management program. I had a 357magnum with me in a belt holster, and my employee who was brand new at the time was packing a .44 magnum blackhawk, in a shoulder holster. As we tip toed across a creek from rock to rock trying to pick our way through the shallowest spots He slipped, and that blackhawk slid out of his holster into the creek with a discharge of the gun upon impact. Water sprayed all over both of us.
I was scared from that, but this guy was pale and if he had any sliver of a heart issue he would have died of heart attack right then. He was shook from that and destroyed that gun ( actually sawzall to bits) the day he got home. He was convinced that it was defective.
Now due to the time line, I cannot know today if this was pre-transfer bar, some fluke, or just bizzarro world at that moment. I do know that I have never carried a revolver since that time with a loaded chamber in line with the barrel. There was a lot of directions that bullet could go safely. Thank God it did. Cause that .44 mag would have killed whoever it hit as far away from help as we were.
I'm not concerned about the transfer bar safety at all. I have read the manual and it explains how to set the trigger/hammer on safe mode. I also see clearly how my Smith and Wesson Mountain gun works with the transfer bar which will only allow the gun to fire with the trigger all the way back.
A brilliant design, and likely 100% safe. I don't carry that with 6 rounds either! Just something about having a gun go off by itself when it hits the ground that changes your life for good!
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