if the price is right buy it. you wont regret it.

Thanks again for the replies. I've decided to go with the Bisley - seems like just the ticket for hunting deer and black bear.

Enjoy the purchase and let us know how it works out.

Here's some notes on the PO-boy Ruger Trigger job just incase you haven't heard it before. If you want the trigger pull to be lighter, pull the grips off, then lift on leg of the trigger spring off of it's pin, then put the grips back and and you have a lighter tirgger.

Also in one of the gunsmithing books that I've read it had a small blurb about smoothing up sear surfaces on new guns. Cock the hammer, then put forward pressure with your thumb on the hammer, then pull the trigger. Do this several times. It will Iron out any small burs on the surface giveing it a smoother feel.

Well, I got the Bisley. Took it out with some comboy action loads and a few handlods I quick threw together (250 XTP and 14 gr. blue dot) and off to the range. The factory loads shot about 2.5" for six shots and the handloads came it at about 1.75" for six shots. Distance was 25 yds. Not eyepopping by any stretch but not a bad place to start working up a good load. Scored a pair of cocbolo grips - very nice. The Bisley is WAY more comfortable to shoot than the BH, at least for my hand. I was very pleased. The extra weight makes the snoosier loads easy to handle.

One thing. Do any of you color the front sight blade (white or orange) and if so, with what? Thanks.

Yes on painting the front sight. Get some Testors Orange and White model paint. Degreese the front sight, then paint white on it. Let this dry, then paint orange over the white. It make it show up much better than just doing orange.

Did you do the Po-boy trigger job?

Sounds like a good gun, and those are respectable groups for an iron sighted gun, not great, but not disapointing either.

As far as orange front sight blade, there are pros and cons. My 480 SRH has the Ruger orange insert blade and persoanally I dislike it more than I like it. I find it very difficult to get a clear sight picture when shooting at 50 yds or longer, as the orange seems to put a haze on my sight picture. I don't really think of any cases where the insight has made any difference in low light conditions, as in truly low light I can't see any of the sights.

I'd stick with the stock all black sights for better target picture under most conditions than go with an orange blade for the odd ball condition.

I have tried about every color of the rainbow and have found two that seem to work really well. A few other pistolero's have tried them and agree with me. I use Testors YELLOW and LIGHT BLUE. They seem to work much better than the traditional red or orange.

FN in MT

Man, you guys are fast.

Yes, I did do the po-boy trigger trick. I released the rightside spring arm, took the trigger pull down to about the perfect level.

I may or may not try the color on the blade, we'll see. For now I want to concentrate on working up a good deer/blackbear load. I'm thinking the 300 Speer at 1200 fps would be plenty. I've got some W296 and some CCI 350s, so I should be set. I may try the 300 gr Sierra, but I've always found Speer bullets to be a bit tougher.

Also, can you get a 45 ACP cylinder for this thing? Sounds kind of fun...

Oh, the cylinder gap is amazingly small - considerably tighter than any of my BHs or RHs. I've got to hold it up to very intense light and hold it JUST so to see it. I'll run the feeler gauge through it when I get a chance...

Thanks again.

I've already got a bug for a 454 or 480 - got plenty of rifles I could trade in. I saw this custom Bisley in 475 at the shop the other day... HMMMM

Feed that Colt 300grLFP & never look back. I shoot a 300gr hard cast WLFP (lee mold) from my 4 5/8"SSBH & get right @ 1000fps. I could up the vel. w/ no problems, but it's easy to shoot & this load penetrates almost 20" in wet phone books, about like my .404 jeffery. I'm not saying it hits like my .404 but I feel confident taking any reasonable angle shot out to 75yds on game uo to 300#. Yeh, there is no expansion but it is a .45 caliber hole all the way thru.

The Bisley is a better grip frame for handling recoil. My wife has (2) cut to 5" for CAS. I keep threatening to steel one to hunt w/. I can comfortably get 1200fps from the 5" gun.

Yes, the grip frame is quite comfortable, I see why so many heavy recoiling rounds have been built on Bisley frames. 1150-1200 fps with a 300 gr bullets will be plenty for anything I care to hunt. I want to soup it up, but I don't want to hurt my revolver.

got a couple of them that have had thousands of 1300fps 300+ grain loads through them and there as good as new. Just keep a little oil on both ends of the cyl. It goes a long way toward keeping them from getting beat up.

Lloyd, not gun oil. Use STP oil treatment and put some on the cylinder pin and ratchet too. I have over 55,000 heavy loads through my .44 SBH and it shows no wear at all except for some forcing cone erosion.
STP is great for the cap and ball revolvers too.

I believe Ruger will fit the ACP cylinder to your gun, but you'll have to call--they may have changed their policy.

If you send the gun to them, be sure to take off the fancy grips, as they will most likely not be returned. Anything not factory original will be undone.