[osagebowman]

Ah Exgeeeye - you’ve joined us on the ‘dark side’...welcome. Black powder shooting rocks. Some folks have a tough time finding real black powder like Goex so Pyrodex will work. Lots of good info on Black Powder Shooting forum of The High Road. Other good sites include muzzleloading forum. Black Powder guns are positively addictive.

[300winmag]

I finally got the little $2 springs needed to finish off my S&W 645 project. As with the S&W 4586, every last little tiny piece was disassembled (and some lost), and fitted to its neighbor using Nanolube. There's just enough snap in the recoil of full-power ball ammo to make them a tad uncomfortable with their factory hard plastic one-piece grips, but the Hogue rubber grips solved that.

So here's a late second-generation 645 and an early third generation 4586. Internally, they're nearly identical, and about 50% of the internal parts are interchangeable, with the "older" 645 having a hammer marked, "only 4506", visible only when torn down.

These were (and still are) the peak of development of all-metal SA/DA .45s, and were used by a lot of police agencies because of their accuracy, refined trigger system, and dependability. These two veterans can still handle their end of things better than I can uphold my end of the partnership.

I still have my own work cut out for me, but at the current price of ammo, I may not practice a lot for quite a while. But they're ready to go for another 20 or 30 years before another checkup.