Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933

I click on these and it says I have to sign into an Amazon account.

The other thread got closed but here is a video showing the new Standard SAA. The part about the single action starts at about the 45 second mark. Very nice looking gun but it's target price is the same as a new Colt. Hope it succeeds but at that price point it is apt to go down the same path as the STI attempt to make single actions a couple of years ago. P.S. The firing pin looks odd because the tip has been cut off. Guns shown at the Shot Show have to have their firing pins removed.

There are only two guys that work on the SAA at Colt. The issue isn't there are not enough smiths. The issue is there is not enough demand to have a full-time production line. Colt tried making a bunch of SAA's a few years ago and keeping an inventory so they would be available on dealer shelves. Heck the local Cabelas had them on the shelf. The problem is they sold very slowly so now they are only made to order. Pretty much everything comes out of the "custom" shop as there is really no such thing as a standard "production" model at this point. When they get enough orders they run off a batch. Think about it. They build about 1,000 per year. That is only about 80 per month or around 4 per work day. Four is about a minute's worth of production at Ruger.

About 24,000.

Without looking at the gun it is hard to tell. In all candor and not trying to be snide your friend needs to take it to someone that knows 73s. Five in a year is rediculous. If a "professional" installed the last one and it broke after two months he needs to find a new professional. You are in Louisiana. Are you close to Slick McClade?

The .45 has a lot of blow-by. Now that you know how to take it apart you will be able to keep it clean and happy.

73 gates are different than 66 gates. They are much stronger. The loading gate in the photo looks like it should be reinforced before even using the gun. Doesn't matter how "strong" the metal is from the photo it appears the metal is so thin it is not going to hold up for competition shooting.

Try some .44 Special brass in them. A lot of them will take .44 Specials as is. If not reaming is a simple job.

Snail. The in-lines are a PITA to load. Takes longer to load one than it does to fire five stages. With snail cappers you dump in the caps and shake it and the caps turn over. Close the lid and you are ready to go. As noted above, they are just made out of brass sheet metal with a little steel finger. Might need a little adjusting once in a while but still a heck of lot more user friendly than the in-lines.

Really looking forward to a photo of the gate.

Breaking a spring in a Colt is a once in a lifetime type thing if at all. Regular breakage means something is wrong. What to do? Real simple. Buy a Wolff or Lee's Gunsmithing spring and put one of those in and see if it breaks. They they break there is something radically wrong with your guns. If they do not break then you need a new smith.

Roger's handbook on the Pedersoli is excellent and the price is right. FREE!

Abilene, thanks for the info. For the first time in many years I am not going to make it to the show. You guys have fun and tell Joe hi.

There reallly isn't that much inside. If you look at this diagram part 40 is the cartridge stop. It is a finger that pops un behind the cartriges to keep them from coming out of the magazine tube. When you pump to the rear a spring forces the finger up and it blocks the cartridges. When the pump is pushed forward the bolt pushes the finger down and a cartridge is released onto the carrier. Something is wrong with that finger. Might just need cleaning. Take it apart and inspect the insides. You did not mention what caliber you are shooting. If you just recently took the magazine tube out and it is a .357 did you put the mag tube reducer back in? http://www.davide-pedersoli.com/uploads/prodotti/S-V-L_924.pdf

Now that the Handi-Rifle is out of production they look like a viable replacement. I wonder if they will have an ejector? Didn't see any mention in the description. Shucks, I re-read the ad and it says extractor.

I have never used Clyp before. My guess is that the song can be downloaded from the site.

Thanks for clarifying that. I didn't think it sounded llike Joe.

It is one of those weird cyberspace things. I listen to music every night when I go to bed. This song came up a couple of weeks ago and I wondered how the heck it got on my IPod. I checked and it is on my ITunes song list. So it got downloaded from ITunes to my IPod. How it got there I am not sure. Must be something to do with the cloud or Russian hacking. At any rate, it is a nice tune and I thought you all might enjoy it.

Try Ace. Will be nylon instead of teflon but should work OK.

Never posted an audio before. Let's see if this works. [sASS Theme Song](https://clyp.it/ptvli00n)

Phooey, didn't work. Does anyone know how to post an audio track?

Some of you guys seem to be awfuly thin skinned. Yes Jim may be a great guy and MEANT no harm. However, people remember original reports and headlines but never remember retractions or corrections. Read the original post. "Is she still around?" The ilnference is that she is no longer around, that she has left SASS. That is how rumors start. The question could have been asked a little differently. Words have consequences, choose them carefully. What is said in print often reads differently than if the same thing were said sitting around the campfire.

Plastic hulls. Once and toss. The heat makes the plastic hard and crunchy. So, even though they might look good enough for another load toss them.

It has been cool so I was out in the garage messing around and decided to do a very short on-line mini-article. The two most popular after market C&B cylinder loaders have a few shortcomings and have never proven satisfactory to me. (If you love yours great.) I had two or three of them in my miscellaneous junk steel box. I loosely reassembled the parts to show what they look like put together. A couple of the major shortcomings. The main post is threaded with a screw coming up from the bottom. It is impossible to tighen that screw tight enough to where the post does not twist on the steel base. Most people have added a little weld to keep the post from twisting. Next, the arm that holds the ram bushing relies on a set screw pushing on a round post. Again, it is very hard to keep them from moving around. Finally, and the biggest problem, is the sliding sleeve on the rammer handle. The sleeve has to slide back and forth on the arm as the rammer is raised and lowered. It puts a lot of side load on the rammer bushing and never seems to slide smoothly. In many cases the brass bushing in the slider simply comes out of the slider. I see people struggling with these things at almost every match where there are C&B shooters. You see all kinds of fixes like putting springs in front of or behind the slider to help it move back and forth on the rammer arm. These little fixes seldom do anything to help the problems. So using as many pieces of the original as possible I mocked up a, hopefully, improved version. The top of the old post was cut off and now is on the left of the square post which fits into a milled recess in the base so it cannot twist. A new rammer arm is set into a milled slot in the post and the top of the old post was turned down and threaded to hold in the new arm. So the top of the old post serves two functions. It acts as a pivot for the new link and holds in the rammer arm. The key is the double pivot that runs off the back of the old post. Instead of the slider moving up and down the rammer handle the movement is taken up by the double pivot. It is very smooth. The original rammer handle was drilled and tapped and the slider screwed down so it does not move. So far this one can be operated with one finger. Since I have given up BP for a while I loaned the thing to Captain Baylor and will let a couple of other local shooters try it out to see if there are any problems. At any rate, if you think this will work feel free to copy it.

Why would you ask that? This is how rumors start.