Back in the day when they were first released, a friend had two 8 3/8" guns in .45 Win. Mag. The guns balanced pretty well but had lousy, mushy DA triggers and were finicky about what they would shoot accurately. I seem to recall that handloads with 230 grain HP bullets over .44 magnum powders such as 2400 and H110/W296 yielded poor results but Blue Dot was better. To me with my lousy eyes (too many hours on a drawing board), the front sight seemed too narrow for the notch on the rear and therefore let too much light in on either side. Depth of notch & height of front ramp reminded me of S&W N-Frame revolvers though. I always thought if they would deal with the sights and gave the gun a really good SA trigger, it would be a great gun.

Bruce