Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns Budget single action revolver

What is a good value, lots of bang for the buck in a single action center fire revolver, colt ssa type clone? new or used ok. I will use it just for plinking mostly might even just load up cast bullets and trail boss for shooting steel and such.

RUGER ~

~~ http://www.guncarryreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Ruger-Vaquero-color-cased.jpg ~~

Ruger black hawk

Hard to beat a Ruger, and used ones are around for decent prices.

Cimarron made by uberti. They shoot so well I have 2. One in 44 colt, and the other in 45 schofield. Major fun and major accuracy. Bought em for under 400 bucks each. Very impressed.

Ruger. Nothing else is even close in my opinion. Go with a New Vaquero if you want a Colt SAA type gun or a Blackhawk of some flavor if you prefer adjustable sights.

None of the aforementioned recommendations are Colt SAA clones. The Ruger New Vaquero is close in appearance but is not a clone. The Blackhawk looks similar to a Colt New Frontier, which is essentially a SAA with adjustable sights.

The best bang-for-your-buck SAA clone will be an Uberti. The best finished Uberti will be those imported by Cimarron, with those imported by Uberti themselves, a close second.

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.

How about those EMF Dakotas. They haven't been around for a longtime, problably for good reason.

EMF Hartford, doesn't get any closer to Colt unless it is a Colt.

If Colt is required though, simply nothing else will do.

I know a guy who can re-blue those for ya

The EMF is no longer mine and wouldn't be worth the money to reblue anyway. It's lack of finish doesn't inhibit function. The Colt still bears about half the original nickel.

That's what I use mine for and went with Ruger. They work for the long run.

That colt looks fairly early by the cylinder bevel, what year is she?

The New Vaquero and the new Flat-tops have the old XR3 size grip like the original old model Blackhawks, which is virtually identical to the Colt SAA grip. Try one of them, you'll love it.

It's an 1882 Frontier Six Shooter with 2/3 panel left.

Thats a sweetheart you wish could talk.