Jim Taylor
Lazarus!
Friday, February 24, 2023, 14:47

Awhile back I posted on here and on other places that I needed a cylinder hand and a mainspring for the old gun. I found a guy on Ebay selling old H&R parts and bought a cylinder hand from him. A friend on another forum had a mainspring and sent it to me.

I installed the mainspring and then put the trigger group together and put it in the gun and tried the double action pull. It felt mushy but I kept pulling slowly and found out why it felt mushy. The trigger broke off!

So I went back to the guy on Ebay and sure enough, he had a trigger and I bought it. I received it today and this afternoon I went out to the shop and installed it. Once I had it working I decided I wanted to shoot it. I trimmed a .38 Special case to the length of the .38 S&W, primed it and dropped in 1.5 gr. of Bullseye. Then I pushed a 124 gr. Bear Creek 9mm bullet into the case. I did not crimp it. I laid some rags on the tool box and shot it into the rags and recovered the bullet.

I still do not have the single action working. I am looking for a small enough spring that I can make a return spring for the sear. Once that's done all I need to do is put some grips on it.