Pics of the 457 SS
Nice short little rifle 36 in. long- Thanks to ELDY, barrel and breech and top-hat, and Dyotat, for the valve and spring, and Anthony, for a 90.3 gram hammer, it’s a smooth shooter, think I’ll get 10 shots between 600 and 650fps, maybe more fps. with higher air pressure. The only issue I am having at this time is the safty, I have it forced open to cock for now.
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Ask Doug maybe 1st, maybe he’ll give you a different one.
Yep, the safety is long gone, and I have polished the surface of the sear. The only other thing I know to do is relieve the bottom of the hammer slightly. That should eliminate the drag.
I notice on Dougs newer hammers, the dia. is less on the body of the hammer behind the face. Perhaps this is what I should do, and make up the weight difference with a side cocker bolt.
Knife
Shit man, it is cutting the hammer in half. I hope you got rid of the safety, and maybe you can smooth out the sear tip slightly.
I can see serrious wear marks on the hammer where the sear rubs it when released. It is all the way down the side, (bottom) of it.
Knife
Yeah, I’ve been cleaning mine about 35 shots, soft lead is a bearcat, Knife, I wonder if you check around where the spring connects to hammer.
Maw,
Cast bullets and RB lead the barrel.
Leading in the barrel leads to inaccuracy.
I used to clean my Haley each and every day I shot it, 35 to 45 shots, and sometimes I cleaned it during the shooting cycle or twice per day.
Lube will help and remember that cast bullet lubes require heat to melt, so you need to use a liquid lube, I used Silicone food grade oil, but there are plenty of others out there including spray moly.
I aggressively scrubbed ALL my barrels with a bronze brush with bronze wool wrapped around it and followed up with patches wet with the silicone oil.
Hope this helps
For some reason, I’m getting a lot of hammer wear. I get brass dust in the breach and trigger parts from the hammer dragging on the sear. And it’s a bbl riding hammer. It will either start not cocking or the trigger pull will be terrible. I pull out the trigger group, and clean everything and it will be just fine for a few hundered shots. Then I have to tear her down again.
Any thoughts?
Knife
Finally, got out there with the original scope and got it sighted good enough, so, it must of been the scope making it shoot weird.
Shot my gun today after changing it to new frame and scope and it shot shitty,YEAH!! It maybe a junk scope, sure isn’t the shroud, cause I don’t have one, it shoots good then bad, one in the bullseye and one 4 inches off, any direction. Is it possible for scopes to switch and switch back?
sent pm to yeah Dyotat
Stock spring is no problem. It’s the heavy spring with lots of pre load.
Gun started cocking now, it’s stock spring- 22, with Condor weight, do you think lube would make it act like that, cause it’s saturated.
Well, it works in my other frame, teh Condor,,,, new hammer, stock spring, no safety, the other gun just doesn’t cock period, I bought it used and someone smoothed out the trigger maybe something broke. 457 Condor now, have to re sight in in maybe tomarrow, the hammer works in this one. Shoot the cat,hahahaha!!
It because the hammer fits loose in the frame by design. So it wants to climb over the striker release. Soon as it wears a little it is over. With the barrel rider it is always in the same place.
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I just got a hammer from ParisD, and it weighs 107 grams, and fits my 45 CJ barrel perfectly, for anyone having this set up, it was a great deal, if ordering though, make sure to email him to let him know, you have a .625 barrel.