HandgunHunter
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After a career of building custom handguns for hunters and correcting the problems of all of those factory offerings….I wanted to reach for the very top….shelf.
I bought a Korth 44 Magnum. Yeah they are not cheap. But they are totally machined. From speaking with their reps I felt confident that I was buying something as near perfection as possible.
I spent hours/days adjusting and fixing factory guns for years in the shop. From minor to major adjustments to problems that just couldn’t be fixed and giving the customer that bad phone call.
I was looking for one I didn’t have to work on….I’m retired now and I hope to work in that shop as close to zero as possible.
There was one small problem tho…. Korth makes optics ready revolvers but they have chain saw like rails everywhere and it just seems out of place to me.
So I did have to find my way into the shop to make a optics mount for the Mongoose (Korth traditional looking model), drill and tap a really hard top strap on a really expensive wheelgun, and then Bed the mount into place for final check in the box that the optic will not move.
So I removed the rear sight from the Korth. I began measuring the inside of the rear sight cut….absolutely spot on square. Then I set the Korth up in the mill to use an indicator to make sure the bore was perfectly in line with the rear sight cut/pocket. I found every surface to be parallel with the bore which is pretty amazing when you think of how many machining operations this frame and other parts had to go through.
So I made my mount for the trijicon SRO to be tap in tight to the rear sight cut. I used the rear sight screw and added a 8x40 to give me two screws holding the base on plus bedded it with red lock tight.
Then a little aluminum blackening and I had a pretty sharp little rig.
I have only been out shooting this a couple times as the freeze thaw mud cycle has been pretty crappy in my corner of Wyoming. But so far I am quite happy.
The only down side is that the grips are super slick. They are about as pretty as they can get but sanded so smooth that they slide through the hands with recoil…Hogue custom shop should have that taken care of by the end of the month.
Many of you spend about this much on a full custom rifle, being a dedicated handgun hunter…..I saw the worth.
50 yard prone group in the pics. Also a picture of it next to the N frame 44 I used for my bull and deer last year.
Really looking forward to getting into the field this year with this new set up.
Disclaimer…..I’m retired…..and do not do gunwork for the public anymore.
I bought a Korth 44 Magnum. Yeah they are not cheap. But they are totally machined. From speaking with their reps I felt confident that I was buying something as near perfection as possible.
I spent hours/days adjusting and fixing factory guns for years in the shop. From minor to major adjustments to problems that just couldn’t be fixed and giving the customer that bad phone call.
I was looking for one I didn’t have to work on….I’m retired now and I hope to work in that shop as close to zero as possible.
There was one small problem tho…. Korth makes optics ready revolvers but they have chain saw like rails everywhere and it just seems out of place to me.
So I did have to find my way into the shop to make a optics mount for the Mongoose (Korth traditional looking model), drill and tap a really hard top strap on a really expensive wheelgun, and then Bed the mount into place for final check in the box that the optic will not move.
So I removed the rear sight from the Korth. I began measuring the inside of the rear sight cut….absolutely spot on square. Then I set the Korth up in the mill to use an indicator to make sure the bore was perfectly in line with the rear sight cut/pocket. I found every surface to be parallel with the bore which is pretty amazing when you think of how many machining operations this frame and other parts had to go through.
So I made my mount for the trijicon SRO to be tap in tight to the rear sight cut. I used the rear sight screw and added a 8x40 to give me two screws holding the base on plus bedded it with red lock tight.
Then a little aluminum blackening and I had a pretty sharp little rig.
I have only been out shooting this a couple times as the freeze thaw mud cycle has been pretty crappy in my corner of Wyoming. But so far I am quite happy.
The only down side is that the grips are super slick. They are about as pretty as they can get but sanded so smooth that they slide through the hands with recoil…Hogue custom shop should have that taken care of by the end of the month.
Many of you spend about this much on a full custom rifle, being a dedicated handgun hunter…..I saw the worth.
50 yard prone group in the pics. Also a picture of it next to the N frame 44 I used for my bull and deer last year.
Really looking forward to getting into the field this year with this new set up.
Disclaimer…..I’m retired…..and do not do gunwork for the public anymore.
