Picked out my 357 and ordered it today....

Nice pistola. Leather sounds nice too- I ordered their 1942 Tanker & 3x2 cartridge slide/pouch in russet with fish scale stamping for a Blackhawk I've got at Bobby Tyler's right now.
 
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Well...is she stuck in the Greensboro usps twilight zone or what? I’m jonesing...,
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Both are shipped. Not USPS. Both being the engraved SAAand a spanky new RI Officers.


USPS does have my 4570 bullets in the Greensboro usps hell zone for 4 days now. That place sucks big green donkeys . I wanna get done and the hell out reloading forever and they are holding me up.
 
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Well, looks like the Officers is in the Greensboro usps hell zone! Maybe have both by Friday ....finally got the 4570 bullets though
 
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While the 1911 remains 4 days in its 2 hour journey from Raleigh to Mount Gilead I spent my stimulus check......bought a Cimarron 44 Special. I wonder if a larger caliber saa will travel faster or slower by post.
 
Would be nice to take pics. Hell, would be nice if priority mail took less than 4 weeks to move across 3 states too!

Donkey Express could move faster.
 
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It did. and due in part to ubersturmbanfurher coopers business restrictions it seems I now need an appointment with my ffl to pick up the gun/s.

So rather than taking the horrific risk of meeting with another human more than necessary I must wait till both guns arrive and make only one highly dangerous recon into potentially disease infested territories that lay beyond the chain link fence around my property....

which by the way (the chain link fence), keeps disease germs and mosquitoes off my porch.

No, really, I want to get them but mail and businesses are severely fu-ked these days! Chain link is my only and reliable friend....but he dont talk much.
 
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Thanks to members here I have ammo. 357 and 45 auto guns finally arrived. Now to see when I can get that appt with my ffl for pickup. Hopefully the 44 special arrives before summer. It's also on a 3 week long jaunt labeled as 3 day priority mail.
 
I like that hog leg.
 
Fresh out of the box assessments. Not counting an assessment of 15 to 20 day 3 day priority mail, right now USPS sucks big green donkeys. But, to their credit, both arrived undamaged and we can only hope the same for the 44 Special, now 1 day overdue and still has not crossed the border of the first state! Somebody musta changed the definition of priority.

Anyway, to the meat and taters.

1. Rock Island Officers 45 ACP. Couldn't find a Colt for less than 1.7 Trillion dollars so......

a. Love the blueing, machining inside and out is nice, actually better/smoother than many a Colt I've looked into. Like the bushingless barrel and polished frame mounted feed ramp, it blends to a perfectly shaped and polished lower barrel lip. I'll plunk test and shoot later. Trigger pull is smooth, crisp, grit free and feels light, i'll measure it later as they spared no expense to dunk it in oil and package it in a plastic bag full of oil for the trip across the waters. She needs cleaned out! Like the application of a full length guide rod. Slide is not loose, up/down or side/side. No Series 80 Fire Control Parts. Nice bump out on the palm safety.

b. Hate the Recycled MAK-90 wood grips. No worries, elk antler will be here this week. Front sight is a bit narrow/hard to pick up. Also, oddly enough, hate the full length guide rod assembly, its a mess which impedes tool free take down for cleaning. I may have to fix that. But, shooting first.

2. Taylors/Pietta Outlaw Legacy 357 Magnum.

a. Love the bluing. Like the engraving. Lock up is perfectly timed. No excess endshake or wobble on the pin. 4 clicks, and no safety built into the hammer, hammer mounted firing pin, frame mounted hardened firing pin liner, soft springs. This will likely be my Sunday Go To Meeting and Formal Dress Up partner.

b. Hate the plastic grip. 1950s Colt Birdseye maple is on the way and I am also looking at a floral carved MagnaTusk. Will see. Also, suspect the forcing cone is carved for jacketed. We'll have to shoot it a bit to see. Trigger needs checked, feels just a bit like it has a burr, perhaps a session on the range first to smooth things up.
 
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Goldsboro and Raleigh are hard broke right now. St Louis and central Ohio it seems too.
 
Thanks. Needs a grip, plastic won't get it. Also may need trigger work, I don't have a jig so will leave that to Mr. Alt. But will make that decision after shooting it a few rounds. Overall the action has a "soft" feel, its the easiest gun I've ever had to pull back the hammer but the trigger break is "Solid" unitll it breaks. I've not weighed it but it sure feels like the sear is caught behind a wire edge, almost like a semi half cock notch. Sort of like the half cock of a muzzleloader with a fly in the tumbler where it catches the fly and then overrides it. Just a bit weird.
 
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I have a Uberti Huckleberry that has that same trigger setup. When I first cocked it I thought it was Broken! The actual trigger pull is at least 8 pounds but Clean.
The SASS shooters don't care about trigger break like we do. They only care about the Cocking. They commonly hold the trigger and "fan" with the off thumb on all courses of fire.
 
Yeah. Them sass guys are silly. And, they shoot wussy loads! This one gets 125g or 140g hydra shok.....as soon as I can fine em!!
 
OMGosh! The 44 Special made it out of the St Louis USPS Hell Zone only 2 days late. We are 6 days into a 3 day Priority Mail order. The gun now resides at the Greensboro USPS Hell Zone! So exciting to see it in state and only 60 miles away in less than 4 weeks!
 
Initial thoughts.

Swimming in oil, inside and out. What is it with off shore gun makers that they absolutely flood a gun with oil. Gave it a quick wipe, safety/function check and loaded up. Load one, skip one, load four, cock and lower the hammer on the empty chamber.

Load is Precision One 200g FMJ .44 Special that I picked up 250 rounds of for $180, pretty close to pre panic prices. Glad to get them!

Absolutely no safety on this one, no double notched cylinder pin, no nose mounted safety, no transfer bar or hammer blocking mess, just the half cock notche and the operator.
(No Safety notch on this, its the newer 3 click that still has 4 clicks but no safety notch.....I don't know how they do that.) Don't know how it made it here without a safety device, I thought safety devices on imported SAA's was a matter of course if not the rule.

Great finish, lacking external tool marks. Muted case colors and a high polish blue. Will have to open it up to and clean so we'll see what the guts look like. Don't know yet if this has a flat or coil spring cylinder ratchet, coil I hope. Firing pin is hammer mounted. Trigger is a wonderful crisp and easy 2 lbs 8 ounces......guess I'm going to have to polish the OutLaw Legend to keep up with this Uberti made specimen.

Plain walnut stained birch wood grip but as shown, I have 1950's issue Colt Birdseye maple wood to fit up.

Not sure on the barrel length, would really like 3.5" max but this one fits the available cross draw holster and at 7 meters is dead nuts on. Bullet hits well centered right on top of the front sight. 10 times rang the steel with 10 shots. First one ever to be on the money.....maybe just leave the barrel length and sights alone!

A soft shooter, nice roll without the excessive roll that barks all the hide off the inside of your shooting thumb.

Opened it up for a look inside.
..old school trick installed by the factory, leather shim under the main spring.....someone musta sent a gunsmith to Italy!!!!!

Found a coil ratchet spring in there, guts looking smoothly happy to. Gettin better by the minute.

Mainspring is hourglass shaped, nice. Took a whiskerdribbler off the end so it would stop rubbing the back side of the hammer.

Flat hand and trigger spring, will look for a coil but I have a spare colt spring if needed.

Not a tool mark anywhere inside. Dayum fine. I'm well pleased.

The colt grips will need opened up to fit over the uberti trigger guard and back strap. Rather than fumblemess up the wood, I'm going to rough shape the outside then split the grips and epoxy back together with a spacer. That way I don't have to do a bunch of internal carving and mess up the edges of the wood.
 
Couldn't find any more 44 special ammo of any kind, so 250 of the 200g precision one FMJ is what I have for now. but did find and buy 500 rds of 247g lead round nose fiocchi 44 russian from sg ammo. Should ship in a week or less from Oklahoma.

So, practice with the 44 short. 247g bullet at 850 fps it has same or better shiz than most special loads. Guess I'll have to save the brass, someone playing at dress up, whoops, I mean sass will want it.
 
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