browning model 63?

the transfer bars that Ruger (and pretty much everybody else) uses in their single actions. You have a gun that is much safer and with a whole generation (almost 2 generations) that have grown up with transfer bars giving them a gun with no transfer bar or any other safety is just asking for trouble. There are hundreds of old model Rugers out there with some minor problems that the factory would fix if the owners would send them in. But the old goats are too stubborn (or stupid) to send the gun back to Ruger to get it fixed because they don't Ruger putting the transfer bar system in it. Idiots.. and the only ones they are hurting are themselves.

When I came out with the original #5 years ago on my own frame I got a written OK from Ruger to copy exactly their old model revolver, no transfer bar. When we were building the first batch my guys (all under 30) would load the guns, hand them to me and I would do the shooting for accuracy and reliability. During the first days shooting 2 of my guys accidentally let a round go off in the shop trying to hold the hammer back at half cock to load or unload the gun. The reason? They had never handled a gun without a transfer bar. Nobody was hurt in the shots but it showed me something I needed to see before the guns got out the door. I immediately stopped production of the guns and ordered parts to change an old model to a transfer bar just like Ruger does. Unfortunately that took months and I lost a lot of sales but I slept better at night. I still have almost 100 frames sitting in one of my safes that are no transfer bar frames because the company that built the hammers with the transfer bar system went out of business. About that time Ruger got new ownership or management and wouldn't sell the hammers and transfer system so I was caught between a rock and a hard spot. I may figure something to do with them one day. In the meantime I have $12,000 in frames sitting gathering dust. It was just a bad and expensive decision on my part. I have put out feelers trying to buy the old model parts that Ruger sends back with the converted guns, as that is all I need to finish one of the guns. So far I have obtained about a dozen.

Back to the original part of this post, it is silly to whine and bitch about a safety that has been added to a gun. Enjoy the gun and quit bitching and whining and acting like an old fart who is too stuck in his ways to change. That newly converted Ruger with the transfer bar system can be made just as slick and smooth as any old model and a whole lot safer. No gun company is going to remove the safety features of their guns so the only person you are hurting is yourself. Grow up.

Browning 63 came out before the era of tang safeties and works just like the original Winchester...