45 acp cylinder for blackhawk

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hounddogman

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Has anyone out there ever bought a 45 acp cylinder for a 45 colt blackhawk from a private party and if you did, did you have to have it fitted or did it work as is?
 
No, but if it does work out for you, let me know! I've been eyeing .45 ACP capable revolvers for a while.

TK Customs does the fitting pretty cheaply for DA guns: http://www.tkcustom.com/content/machine.asp\

.45 ACP is probably the only way I'd ever get a "big bore" revolver. You can even do this conversion to .460 S&W or .454 Casull. So, you have .45 ACP for "cheaper" plinking and you'd still have a revolver capable of shooting magnum loads.

OH, reading further down looks like that they have single action conversions, too for Rugers.
 
I bought a blue 45 acp Blackhawk cylinder from a friend and it worked just fine in a sst 45 colt Blackhawk. it actually shot better than the 45 colt cylinder.
 
Ruger does sell them separately you have to send the gun to them and they fit the cylinder to the gun I just bought one off of ebay from a guy who sold the gun without the 45 acp cylinder and sold me the cylinder
 
I have one made by my local machinist buddy... just an FYI... there is a good chance that any new cylinder will fit... however as there is always an acceptable range of measurements, if the gun were at minimum & the cylinder at maximum ( for example ) it may not fit well enough to time correctly... but that would be the same, even if the cylinder were for the same caliber but from another gun... my cylinder shoots both ACP & Autorim, & I have a 45 Colt cylinder as well... & have even considered doing a 45 Win Mag cylinder...
 
I think Ruger will fit a second cylinder if the SA was originally a convertible, or came with two cylinders. Convertibles, by the way are nice. I have a few. Below a couple Ruger Blackhawks. One in 45ACP/45LC and the other in 357/9mm. Changed the grips on the 9mm/357 by the way.

 
I wonder if Ruger isn't doing the lawyer-proofing thing by not mailing you a cylinder of your liking? Uberti sold me a .45ACP cylinder for my Rem 1875 clone. It was only a tad long in the front bushing area, but a little stone work got it taken care of. The timing was spot on with the .45 Long Colt cylinder.
 
Some might say that these need to be fitted to a specific gun. I have two .38-40/10mm Ruger "Buckeye" Blackhawks ... I stopped trying to keep the cylinders straight a long time ago. All four work in both revolvers.
 
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