Is a pistol with adjustable sights permitted in cas?

[thehairlessone]

I found a great deal on a very nice ruger blackhawk. Only thing is it has a 6 1/2" barrel.

Is that too long? It also has adjustable sights and i didnt know if that was cas legal?

It is in very nice shape. I can get it for $255 but I dont want to buy it unless I can use it for cas.

HELP!

rick

[Silver Creek Slim]

It can be used for SASS in the Modern class, which is for revolvers with adjustable rear sights. But, not used in NCOWS.

Slim

[thehairlessone]

Thanks alot!

I think I will go ahead and buy it then.

It was in great shape and you cant beat the price I didnt think.

rick

[Silver Creek Slim]

What caliber is it?

Slim

[thehairlessone]

It is a .44

Really nice shape.

rick

[Silver Creek Slim]

That will do just great. I started this game with a 3 screw Super Blackhawk .44 Mag.

Slim

[Chuckaroo]

If you shoot in one of the SASS aged base categories, you can also use a handgun with adjustable sights.

SASS shooters in the 49er, SR and Elder Statesman categories can shoot any gun discipline except Gunfighter. That includes the gun in question.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Thanks, Chuckaroo. I'd forgotten about those particulars........Buck

[Book Miser]

I've also heard of some fellers replacing the adjustable sight on the Blackhawk with a fixed one, something on the order of a solid block of metal (brass, perhaps) milled to fit the frame. Don't know that it's worth the trouble, though.

I shoot a Blackhawk in .357/.38, and it works fine. My other SA sixgun is a Bisley Vaq. and it's marginally too big for my hands. A few matches back, Grizzly Joe observed that every pistol miss I had made on six stages was with the Bisley. Over the winter, I did some experimental shooting on an indoor range with both these guns and several different loads. For me at least, the Bisley does not shoot as tight a group offhand, and doesn't shoot to the point of aim as accurately as the Blackhawk. But I think at least part of the equation is that my loads are just a tad light for this gun.

More to the point of hairless' question might be the barrel length. A lotta us newer shooters use shorter guns, either a 4-3/4 or 5-1/2, but if you can lay hands on that particular Blackhawk at that price, do it. If it doesn't work well for you, there shouldn't be much trouble selling it and getting something else. And Lord knows there are plenty of people shooting well, fast, happily  and safely with Walker Colts and other big-azz hoglegs.

I will probably keep the Blackhawk and swap the Bisley in favor of a Cimarron Lightning, because I want a shorter gun in cross-draw.

Conventional wisdom is that ya ought never to sell a gun. But because I am retired/unemployable/often-broke, I have swapped around a lotta stuff over the years, just to keep the cash outlay as low as possible.

[Irish Red O'Toole]

I just shot my first match in the "Modern" class.  Used a pair of 4 5/8" Blackhawks in .45 Colt.  Not a whole lot of difference between that and "Traditional".....except of course, a lot few folks shooting in it.  I finished 7th instead of 27th in class.  Probably do it again soon, too!!

[Book Miser]

Yeh. Depending where you shoot, Modern can have a lotta competition or none. I once shot dead last in a match, but was the top Modern shooter, because nobody else had registered as such.

Someday things will be different, but last year I came out in the bottom five or ten of the matches I shot. Didn't bother me too much, 'cause that meant I got to spend MUCH more time on the firing line than the really fast guys.