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Post by bushog on Oct 9, 2017 21:16:37 GMT -5
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Post by whitworth on Oct 9, 2017 21:19:25 GMT -5
I may be wrong (probably am), but I don't think Bowen will (or even has) built a .454 on a Ruger single-action platform.
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Post by bushog on Oct 9, 2017 21:25:33 GMT -5
I confident you're right....
Looks like somebody stuck a 454 bisley cylinder, hammer and base pin in a .45 vaquero?
Are the cylinders on those guns beveled like that?
I emailed him and asked him who did the work and he said Bowen....
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Post by Alaskan454 on Oct 9, 2017 21:29:51 GMT -5
I'm thinking someone did a parts swap. On conversion guns doesn't BCA always remark the barrels?
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Post by Alaskan454 on Oct 9, 2017 21:32:09 GMT -5
My 480 factory cylinder is beveled by the way. Is that ERH screw regulated and blended?
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Post by bushog on Oct 9, 2017 21:42:14 GMT -5
My 480 factory cylinder is beveled by the way. Is that ERH screw regulated and blended? Or unscrewed..... |
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Post by Alaskan454 on Oct 9, 2017 21:44:19 GMT -5
My 480 factory cylinder is beveled by the way. Is that ERH screw regulated and blended? Or unscrewed..... Hadn't even considered that! |
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Post by lscg on Oct 9, 2017 22:17:28 GMT -5
sure looks like somebody just did a parts swap.
shouldn't there be some paperwork included if Bowen did the work?
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Post by mike454 on Oct 9, 2017 22:22:20 GMT -5
The cylinder ratchet looks like no Bowen I've ever seen. Don't see Bowen proof mark on cylinder. I'm guessing parts swap.
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Post by potatojudge on Oct 9, 2017 23:04:36 GMT -5
The ERH screw does look blended- there's no dome to the shape of the screw. The base pin screw, can't tell though it might be regulated.
Looks like a factory barrel and they didn't bother to take off the warning, so who knows if the BC gap was set or what.
Maybe he meant it was a Bowen cylinder blank? I don't know enough to say about the ratchet, but seems more likely a swap.
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Post by medicdave on Oct 10, 2017 15:49:35 GMT -5
Bowen had a 454 take off cylinder and barrel listed on gb a while back. Looks like we found where the cylinder ended up.
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nicholst55
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Post by nicholst55 on Oct 10, 2017 15:58:54 GMT -5
There is an entity on GunBroker called Mtnparts that sells takeoff SA revolver parts. I'm not positive about the commenction, but I BELEIEVE they are associated with Hamilton's shop, and sell some of the takeoff parts from his shop. They recently had a .454 barrel and cylinder on GB, and may have had others in the past. I would suspect that COULD be where the cylinder and other parts came from. www.gunbroker.com/All/BI.aspx?Sort=13&IncludeSellers=906237 |
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Post by CraigC on Oct 11, 2017 9:52:49 GMT -5
Looks like the factory .45 barrel.
Isn't that the factory .454/.480 basepin too?
The blended and indexed ejector housing screw is what is baffling me. Perhaps Bowen did 'some' work on this gun but not the .454 conversion.
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Post by dougader on Oct 12, 2017 6:58:53 GMT -5
The basepin is the first thing that I noticed that made me think "parts swap" like you guys are saying... then the cylinder. I wouldn't take this as a Bowen job unless he had the detailed receipt Hamilton always includes when he ships the gun back.
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Post by jared on Oct 12, 2017 19:13:55 GMT -5
The frame doesn't have the screw for Bowens action block either.
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