View attachment 62163 View attachment 62163 View attachment 62163 Trying to lighten up the hammer. Did I go too far?
That’s exactly what I was concerned about, the strength of the hammer after I drilled the hole in the hammer. The original weighed 478gr and the bobbed one weighs 330gr. I just finished installing and test firing and am pretty pleased. %100 reliable with federal primers! 6# DA and 2.5# SA (not that SA matters anymore, just had to measure it for fun).You can't get a hammer too light until you weaken it and it breaks. On a S&W centerfire revolver. The lighter the hammer the more reliable the setting off of rounds providing you don't change anything else and the gun is in spec with things like endshake, etc.
If you put a lighter mainspring in the gun and get misfires it is not because of the lightened hammer it is the mainspring if that is all you changed.
Yes I did. Bobbed and smoothed it out with a dremel tool cut off wheel and sanding wheel. Milled the hole out at work since my cheap drill bits wouldn’t even begin to cut on the hardened surface.Colt 44 it looks great! Did you do the work yourself? I am thinking about something similar with my GP 100 hammer.