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Post by Lee Martin on Nov 29, 2022 15:54:02 GMT -5
Ronnie Wells Brass Lightning.... Ruger Single-Six .32 Harrington & Richardson, 6-1/2”. Fermin Garza front sight.  Top: Super Blackhawk .44 Mag prototype 2 Dogs 2-degree forward aluminum Bisley (between Potatojudge Bisley and Potatojudge Jr). Bottom: RW Brass Lightning .32 H&R.  Hand cannon .500 Linebaugh with 5-5/8”, 1:18” twist barrel. RW brass Bisley with SBH hammer. Ronnie made 5-shot cylinder from 17-4-ph stainless. Left: 1st batch brass Bisley; right: 2nd batch brass Bisley with more finger clearance. Ronnie stained 1/16” Arizona Ash veneer in light red, red, and green to laminate grip panels.  Ronnie Wells the man  Ronnie machined hunter-style barrel  Top: .500 1.4" Linebaugh, Douglas 1:18” barrel. Bottom: 500 1.450" Wells Express. Ronnie fashioned octagon barrel from 1-1/4” stock with 1:19” twist, milling integral sight base.  Cylinder, .500 Wells Express  Featherweight Wells #9 pattern grip frame machined from Titanium. Not brass; color is heat signature of titanium. Ronnie milled two ports beside sight at 45-degrees to help tame recoil.  SAA style octagon Bisley convertible: .44-40 fluted cylinder on gun. Its .44 Special cylinder. is unfluted.  SAA style buffalo octagon  -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a time" |
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Post by flyingzebra on Nov 29, 2022 16:00:49 GMT -5
Very good!
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Post by bradshaw on Nov 29, 2022 20:07:04 GMT -5
Between disparate sprinting of Ronnie, Lee, and this shooter, Lee received photos without cut lines. Photos taken on visit with Ronnie moons ago. Detail to follow on a hard corps sixgunner of Old School talent bridging our need today through modern machine technique. Ronnie may have been born 200 years ago, yet strides among us now.
David Bradshaw
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Post by cmillard on Nov 29, 2022 20:07:24 GMT -5
Speechless
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Post by iwsbull on Nov 29, 2022 20:22:44 GMT -5
Wow that’s amazing.
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Post by longoval on Nov 29, 2022 21:08:56 GMT -5
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Post by bigbrowndog on Nov 29, 2022 22:46:04 GMT -5
Interesting angular cut on grip frame and grip on the Bisley’d round butt Vaquero/Octagon!!……any idea of the reason for it???
Trapr
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Post by needsmostuff on Nov 29, 2022 23:05:54 GMT -5
Interesting angular cut on grip frame and grip on the Bisley’d round butt Vaquero/Octagon!!……any idea of the reason for it??? Trapr Maybe just to make the gripmaker cuss. Or, just because he can. |
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Post by RDW on Nov 30, 2022 10:24:14 GMT -5
Interesting angular cut on grip frame and grip on the Bisley’d round butt Vaquero/Octagon!!……any idea of the reason for it??? Trapr Made that one (Grip Frame) out of BeCu (Berylium copper). Got Bored. Definately not a good thing for me to get bored. I do lots of stupid stuff when i get bored. Everybody seems to like it though. The Cape Buffalo horn came from a hunt i had with a very crazy Rock and Roll star when i had an Archery shop in the 80s. Fact of the matter was the peices of horn that was cut for the bisley style did not match up perfect so i made the grip frame fit the grips. Kind of a Screw up repair so to speak. Hahahaha. The material ( BUF Horn ) is a pleasure to work with but i am telling you whatever recoil that the 50 Action express gives off, gets multiplied ten fold with it. Im Talking Phi Smackatoah brother. It hurts like hell to shoot. The concept was an Omage to my Gunsmith Grand father who died in Cochise county Arizona in 1979. He loved copper. It was his favorite color. He gave me those two penneys when i was a boy. They were 1907 indian heads, the year he was born. So i emplemented them into the grips. The revolver is stainless and the copper color comes from a plating bath that we had at Baker Oil tools. Its name is Penney Loudandboomer. Stupid i know but for those who know me personally they will all voutch that i am a goofball. Life is to short not to have buttloads of fun. And man oh man do i love makin sixguns. Or fives. R |
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Post by RDW on Nov 30, 2022 10:25:34 GMT -5
Interesting angular cut on grip frame and grip on the Bisley’d round butt Vaquero/Octagon!!……any idea of the reason for it??? Trapr Maybe just to make the gripmaker cuss. Or, just because he can. Hear Hear. |
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Post by bigbrowndog on Nov 30, 2022 10:29:25 GMT -5
I figured there was a very good reason for the modification, I do like the color of the cylinder. BTW, the ranch I routinely hunt on is in your old Pawnee stomping grounds, just about 10 min. from downtown Pawnee.
Trapr
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Post by Lee Martin on Nov 30, 2022 10:43:03 GMT -5
Ronnie - refresh my memory. What case is the .500 Wells Express based on again? Love the guns David took photos of. -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a tiem" |
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Post by weiler on Nov 30, 2022 11:27:46 GMT -5
I really like the Super Hammer on the Bisley
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Post by RDW on Nov 30, 2022 11:37:05 GMT -5
Between disparate sprinting of Ronnie, Lee, and this shooter, Lee received photos without cut lines. Photos taken on visit with Ronnie moons ago. Detail to follow on a hard corps sixgunner of Old School talent bridging our need today through modern machine technique. Ronnie may have been born 200 years ago, yet strides among us now. David Bradshaw Thankyou Super dave. That 3rd photo is my first 500 Linebaugh. The story goes in 1981 i turned 18 and my Pop gifted me a brand new Ruger Super Blackie. In 1986 i received my august issue Guns and ammo with Ross seyfrieds outer limits of handgun article on the 500 Linebaugh! I lost my everlovin mind. That very same SBH was immediately dissassembled and the Games began. An old freind who is gone now had bought a new 44 mag bisley and hated it. He wanted his old Dragoon back. So i took my squareback grip frame and mounted it on his. He loved the bisley hammer so i chopped off the back so it would fit in the plow handle. Traded triggers and used my SBH Hammer and his bisley grip frame. I screwd up on the site base and had to make the blade shorter but it has always worked so i left it alone. I also screwed up my hole for the Ejector rod housing so i made a holder that mounts to the barrel band. I have made many more that were perfect but this was my first and is still my favorite. She may be ugly but she sho can Boogie! Having a large machine shop at my disposal i had it ready to fire for the first time on december the 23rd 4 months later. Cases were cut out of 348 winch and reamed. i had to make the dies. WLPs, 450 grainers were mashed in em with as much w296 as would fit and the hammer dropped. My first target was a Cow patty out at about a hundred feet. It didnt survive. i think peices of that ole manuuey are still landing in south Texas as we speak. WOW! What a rush. Everything i shot just exploded. I was hooked. The problem was of course the trigger guard. It wanted to cream my finger every shot. The following year (1987) I was given a 4 foot by 4 foot square chunk of 360 brass 1 inch thick and i made my first brass bisleys. Those 2 grip frames laying beside it were some of my early versions made on an old Mazak Mill. The 2 alignment holes that are inside of the frame are the original placements for the 4th axis mill work and i have stuck with them and there placement for all these years. Sometimes even a blind hog will find an accorn huh? But thats the story man! R |
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Post by RDW on Nov 30, 2022 11:38:20 GMT -5
I figured there was a very good reason for the modification, I do like the color of the cylinder. BTW, the ranch I routinely hunt on is in your old Pawnee stomping grounds, just about 10 min. from downtown Pawnee. Trapr Ya man, Right between pawnee, Petus and kennedy. |
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