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Michael,

I have been looking at some USAF guns and remembered this thread from last year. Can you tell us what the eventual outcome was?



thanks,

Rob

Some time after I sent the pistol to them my wife and came home and found it sitting on the front porch.

Shooting season was over so first thing this spring I shot it and it still shoots to the left. We made a new offset front sight and moved the rear over to the right so now on target, I need to work with the loading.

The magazine housing does not fall off, I fixed the firing pin, they tightened the rear sight but it's still a lot easier to move than I think it should be so I may install a set screw.

It cost about $75 to send the pistol back from Alaska and it was money poorly spent. I am done with USFA, from now on I will take care of any problems myself.

I was going to have my name engraved on the backstrap, I may have a lemon engraved.

Very sorry to hear, Mike!

Having revived this once popular thread, (all the photos shrunk!!) I"ll show off some acquisitions...
I've gone on a tear for grips since I found out I didn't have to make ALL my own!
60-70's vintage Herrett thumb rest on 1970's K-22:

.22 Kit Gun with older Herrett.

30's .22 Outdoorsman with 40's(?) Fitz plastic(!) thumbrest, very comfortable!

J-frame M-36, .38 with Fitz plastic grips.

Tour de force custom Keith Brown fancy walnut on M-13, 3" .357!

Have another set of Keith Brown custom target grips on order for K-frame!
And am bidding on Sanderson thumb rest targets today!

Neat stuff, did Roper make grips for the SAA?

Check this guy out, nice stuff but most for S&W.

http://www.classiccarvedgrips.com/

PS: I was watching a S&W 24-3 4" 44-Special at auction but it went beyond my comfort zone. I was thinking of one with a set of Ropers.

I think this style of grip would look right on a SAA.

The reason I am interested is I finally got my NY pistol permit. Took a while to get everything done and for them to process the application but it arrived last Thursday and I was able to pick up some guns I had gotten from a friends estate that were being held by the local PD.

I started with a Python that apparently has some nice custom grips (or so I am told over at the Colt forum) and a nice 1942 Woodsman Sport that by friend used for trapping (yes, there is trapping in NY) when he was a boy on the 1950's.

Suddenly I am looking at things like S&W single shots and SAA's...

Yup, that's Keith, I've got the Combat set pictured above and a Roper type target set on order. I'm planning on doing a story about his work.

Missed a pair of Ropers with a nice K-22 for $500 a couple weeks ago, almost made me cry : >(

The DA Colts above are probably factory, I've heard of a set of SAA Roper, but not seen.

(Didn't get the Sandersons :>( )

Although this is a very old thread, and at least three of the guys are now gone, I thought I'd just bring it back up for the edfication of any who weren't here the first time around.

Thanks you Terry, that brings back some memories. I recommended USFA to Michael and he had a bad experience as luck would have it. He kept telling me that he would "cash" that in someday!! I miss that man in the worst way and find myself picking up the phone to call him. This also reminds me of just how many unfinished projects I have. Thanks again.

�and I have continued to collect S&W target revolvers including a Triplelock Target that Michael found for me. His contact put me together with a fellow in Pennsylvania and after much internal debate I purchased the single most expensive Smith I had purchased up to that point.

It's a dandy, shown here with 1940s Sanderson walnut thumb rest grips. It was special ordered, has a three-digit serial number, shipped in 1908 and has appreciated considerably in value since I've owned it. Thanks Michael!