Beautiful pistol. Waiting for the range report.
OH MY GOD I SHOT MY EYE OUT
The Action Works in AZ. If I ever do it again, I'll send to C&S or MK3.
Looks really nice. The late great Austin Behlert took 13 months to do my Browning. Well worth the wait.
If Behlert did it, we need pics!
When I was a kid, I used to ride my green Schwinn Varsity down to a local gun store just to stare at a Browning HP they had. When I bought mine, it would not feed ball ammo. Behlert fixed that.
Gun has his trigger on it which breaks at 4 ½ pounds, no mag safety, lowered/rounded Bomar rear and Behlert's thumb safety.
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So I played with both HPs a bit.
I guess the reset is pretty similar (very faint) on both of them...so that's a wash.
The one I just got back has a 5 pull average of 4 pound 5.6oz per my gauge. It got the trigger job and already had the mag disconnect removed.
The stock one, which still has the mag disconnect, has a 5 pull average of 5 pound 9.2oz on the same gauge.
Both are of the same vintage but the one I sent off for work has countless rounds through it while the stock one has only a few hundred (It was NIB from my Grandpa when I got it).
At this point I am not that excited about it at all. It may be a bit lighter and a bit crisper, but not worth the money paid and time wasted. The safety is nice and the slide refinish got rid of some marks that I couldn't stand but sadly I think any local shop could have done the slide and a drop in safety could have been slapped in at home. If we're being 100% honest here there are tooling marks on the safety that IMO should have been smoothed out by a high end gunsmith. Its cosmetic, but still.
I'm glad everybody else speaks so highly of Don, but that was not my experience. I hold no hard feelings to those who suggested him, I am just sharing my experience and results. I may go by Cylinder and Slide next time I'm in the area and see if they'll let me see what their stuff is like.
I guess the reset is pretty similar (very faint) on both of them...so that's a wash.
The one I just got back has a 5 pull average of 4 pound 5.6oz per my gauge. It got the trigger job and already had the mag disconnect removed.
The stock one, which still has the mag disconnect, has a 5 pull average of 5 pound 9.2oz on the same gauge.
Both are of the same vintage but the one I sent off for work has countless rounds through it while the stock one has only a few hundred (It was NIB from my Grandpa when I got it).
At this point I am not that excited about it at all. It may be a bit lighter and a bit crisper, but not worth the money paid and time wasted. The safety is nice and the slide refinish got rid of some marks that I couldn't stand but sadly I think any local shop could have done the slide and a drop in safety could have been slapped in at home. If we're being 100% honest here there are tooling marks on the safety that IMO should have been smoothed out by a high end gunsmith. Its cosmetic, but still.
I'm glad everybody else speaks so highly of Don, but that was not my experience. I hold no hard feelings to those who suggested him, I am just sharing my experience and results. I may go by Cylinder and Slide next time I'm in the area and see if they'll let me see what their stuff is like.
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