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Captainkirk:
Has anyone tried the retrofit of the Ruger hand spring assembly as outlined in the Open Range Pettifogger articles? Been thinking about trying it out on one of my Colt replicas.

View pages 5-19 in the following Open Range link:

http://www.theopenrange.net/articles/Tuning_the_Uberti_Open_Top_Revolvers_Part_2.pdf

old fogey:
Over here there's a good tutorial on basically converting a 1860 Army to a 1860 Ruger - all the conversion work is done on the grip frames (have to do wonders from a reliability standpoint, although have ta say it looks like you simply exchange all the 'smithing work you'd ever have to possibly do over the life of the gun and simply do it from the git-go - but dang, that'd be a reliable shooter)!

StrawHat:
Capt.,  I believe Fingers has done that to at least one of his revolvers. 

I have not had a problem with broken hand springs so far, so have not done it.

Kevin

Hawg:
Knock on wood but I've never broke a hand spring. I did wear out one hand. If I ever do break one I'll stick a bobby pin in it.

Captainkirk:
So far I put a bobby pin in both my 1860 Army and 1851 Navy replicas....hundreds of shots later (and many more 'play sessions') they are holding up fine. I think the original springs are too brittle. Plus, bobby pins are cheap.

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