Anybody with an OMVaquero please respond

Harley Starr · August 19, 2009, 10:45:44 AM

Do any of you have the Belt Mountain #5 style base pin installed in your Old Model Vaquero?

Mustang Gregg · August 19, 2009, 01:58:04 PM

Okay I'm responding......

No base pins in any of our "older" Vaqueros that ain't Ruger-built.

Dirty Brass · August 19, 2009, 02:11:53 PM

Don't have one in the OMV's, but I did install a different one in my SBH, and I'm pretty sure it was a BM brand...not sure what the #5 style is...

Harley Starr · August 19, 2009, 09:51:56 PM

Quote from: Dirty Brass on August 19, 2009, 02:11:53 PM
Don't have one in the OMV's, but I did install a different one in my SBH, and I'm pretty sure it was a BM brand...not sure what the #5 style is...

The Keith Style #5 base pin has an hourglass shape.

Dirty Brass · August 20, 2009, 08:06:00 AM

OK. Didn't use that one.

Danny Bear Claw · August 20, 2009, 10:51:16 PM

I ordered the BM pins the same day I picked up my first pair of OMVs. I never installed them. Didn't see any need to. $:-\$

Pappy Myles · August 26, 2009, 03:40:03 PM

Not the #5 but I do have the Colt style in mine. One slipped right in and the other was a pain in the neck. # days with crocus cloth and two sore wrists. I also had to shorten the ejector spring to get the full effect they were designed for.......

Harley Starr · August 26, 2009, 11:32:29 PM

Quote from: Pappy Myles on August 26, 2009, 03:40:03 PM
Not the #5 but I do have the Colt style in mine. One slipped right in and the other was a pain in the neck. # days with crocus cloth and two sore wrists. I also had to shorten the ejector spring to get the full effect they were designed for.......

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Sorry to hear about your wrists, Pappy.

As the card reads- "Get Well Soon".

Mustang Gregg · August 27, 2009, 03:40:02 PM

Some shorten their base pins.

I have done it to my personal 4.6" & 5.5" K-Bisley Vaqueros. But it make them hard er to remove when stripping.

On Calamity JoAnne's pair of 7.5" OM K-Vaqueros, I installed the longer ejectory housings & ejector pins. And they looked really good (almost like they grew there). So I never shortened her base pins. But I only made that mod because I already had a pair of them assemblies on hand. They came off'n some 10.5" K-Super Blackies.

Mustang Gregg
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