Is this Wesson Hawk as I call it. This began life as a Redhawk, a Dan Wesson barrel system was fitted to it. I have a 44 cal barrel and a 45 cal barrel and 2 cylinders and crane assemblies. This revolver can go from 44 to 45Colt/ 454 in a matter of minutes






Notice the screw added (ala S&W) to allow for fast easy change of cylinders ad crane assembles

Which one do you use mostly?

45/454 by far

Nice looking gun and a great idea. Did you remove the markings from the DW shroud?

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Originally posted by LeonardC:
Nice looking gun and a great idea. Did you remove the markings from the DW shroud?

Yes

Now that's something else. Great idea and great looking gun.

That's an awesome revolver, jwp!

Nice concept. How is full house 454 recoil on the standard RH grip frame with those factory shaped grips? Relative to say the .44 loads or a 454 in something else you may have shot? Thanks.

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Originally posted by AFRICAN LEADWOOD:
Nice concept. How is full house 454 recoil on the standard RH grip frame with those factory shaped grips? Relative to say the .44 loads or a 454 in something else you may have shot? Thanks.

Not that fun out of my own .454 Redhawk (converted from .45 Colt).

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Originally posted by Whitworth:
That's an awesome revolver, jwp!

With the custom grips the Jack made that fit my hand perfectly spreading out the recoil forces the felt recoil is reduce dramatically and it is sweet to shoot. With stock grips the recoil pounds the web of your hand and is not pleasant

That is a pretty dandy looking setup. Are all your barrels/shrouds the same length?

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Originally posted by Rick R:
That is a pretty dandy looking setup. Are all your barrels/shrouds the same length?

I only have the six inch shroud

Here is the complete set up

What was the cost of the conversion.

I most likely just buy another gun instead

But each to is own.

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:
What was the cost of the conversion.

I most likely just buy another gun instead

But each to is own.

I think the whole point is that you can`t go into a gunshop and buy one.Pretty cool methinks.

It's not something everyone is going to run out and buy. But some one with more talent than I'll ever have took parts and ideas from different manufacturers and made a unique and useful gun out of them.

If you don't mind more questions, who was the smith? And did he use the stock cylinder for the .454 or fabricate a new one?

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:
What was the cost of the conversion.

I most likely just buy another gun instead

But each to is own.

I already have 5 other 44 mag revolvers, I also have 7 other 454/45 Colt revolvers. This was something that I wanted to do and I do not know of another one like this one in existence. It is a one of a kind and it is fast becoming my favorite 45 caliber revolver

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If you don't mind more questions, who was the smith? And did he use the stock cylinder for the .454 or fabricate a new one?

Jack Huntington (530) 268-6877

Its a interesting piece but kind of like my contenders I hand 7 or 8 barrels for them but really just used two of them.

Sold the rest like you said its becoming your favorite 45 cal. revolver.

Glad your enjoying it.

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Originally posted by Rick R:
If you don't mind more questions, who was the smith? And did he use the stock cylinder for the .454 or fabricate a new one?

The stock cylinder was used we started with 2 44 mag cylinders.

Badass JWP!

Absolutely an awesome handcannon jwp. Very nice

I love it,thanks for sharing. G

that's very interesting.