The Rugers are good but the new model grip and I don't get along. I probably need to handle a New Vaquero.

I swapped for an EAA Bounty Hunter last year and it's an OK single action based on the old Hawes Western Marshals, which were very good. Has nice case colors and a gawd-awful trigger, made bearable with a lot of work. Like all transfer bar SA's the dang trigger sits way forward of where it should on a Colt or clone.

I'm looking hard at the Cattleman New Model by Uberti, which has a firing pin block that looks like it'd save your bacon for at least one drop.


Direct Impingement is the Fart Joke of military rifle operating systems. ⓒ