Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns Your first single action revolver?

I remember being at the handgun range when someone was shooting one of those back in the early 1990s, I think it was. Loud, and a huge ball of fire.

I was late with the SA's but was on assignment in Houston 1993-4 and ran into Texas Longhorn Arms. I met with the owner and ordered an Improved #5 in 44 Magnum. That was my first. I used a portion of my per diem to pay for it.

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Ruger Old Army percussion. Also has a conversion cylinder.,

Mine was a 1964 Colt SAA 125th Aniv. Commemorative, ugly as hell, but shot great. After getting more into Colts I found where I could send the butt ugly Colt and have it refurbished back to what a normal 1964 Colt would look like.. Because I didn't have a lot of $$$ invested in it, I decided to go for it, It turned out beautiful and is now one of my favorite Single Actions.

Is that a New Vaquero? Very nice.

Sweet!

Some H&R 9 shot thing I couldn’t hit anything with it.

58 Remington was my first , a gift from my dad .

Growing up, I shot dad’s Colt 22/22mag, but my first was a SBH 44mag SS. Liked it but never loved it. Had it looked like the one below, I think I’d still have it.




Love that one, MM. I like that Necker, too. Where’d you get those scales?

Old Model Blackhawk .357 magnum 4 5/8”

Very nice! Does the gun still deliver the same accuracy as it did with the longer barrel? Could the original front sight be used again on the shorter barrel? Somewhere on the www I read about that the shorter gun might need a higher front sight. Did you make the job yourself or was it done by a gun smith?

My first one was a Colt SAA 44 Special with a 5.5" barrel. The front sight needed a little bit of tongs-torture to the left and then shot to point of aim.

10 1/2" Super Blackhawk.

Some claim you can't wear one of them out.
It's not wore out, but the internals had to be replaced.
Bought it used, and then shot the heck out of it.

17, just out of high school, in 1987. Step Dad did the paperwork,
because I was too young, we just fixed that a couple years ago.

That gun got me into reloading, it was too expensive buying the new
LSWC ammo a guy sold at the Monroville gun show.
$10/box if you bought 5 or more, I usually bought 10.
Would shoot them up between shows, then go back like a
Heroin Whore needing a fix.

Not a big fan of single action revolvers, but have a few. First was either a Ruger Single Six convertible (which my brother has had for the last 20 years or so) or a Colt convertible which I still have. The only other two are a New Model Blackhawk.357 Mag (which my son alwalijed so I gave it to him last night) and a beat. Up .30 Carbine Blackhawk which I might do something with some day.

Ruger Blackhawk in 22lr/22mag

I've seen your gun on here several times. Like most of your stuff, it's a perfect example of a real working gun. I had one that looked identical. As you are aware, the Super Blackhawk, for many years, I'd say until the mid-eighties, wasn't available in anything but the configuration yours started out as, the 7 1/2" barreled, unfluted cylindered blued model. In the mid-eighties, I bought a Blackhawk in 45 Colt with the production 4 5/8" barrel. Somebody had taken the aluminum grip frame off and replaced it with a Super Blackhawk's. So it looked just like yours except for a fluted cylinder, but it was a 45 Colt and IIRC, it also had the 45 ACP cylinder. I believe it was the fifth single action I owned.

Ruger SBH in .44M - an original 3-screw... Wish I still had it..

The Ruger SBH 44M was my second handgun. That was back about 1980, I guess that was about the two extremes back then 22LR to a 44M....lol

Same for me.