Has anyone seen anything like this. I'm suspecting at some point someone tried some trigger work on this one. It fired in time, but wonder how much longer it would have.

This is from a 10-5 that was a Jordanian Trade-In.

Bubba strikes again?

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Oh well, what the hell.

You're talking about that chunk missing from the single action seat? Yeah that doesn't look normal to me. Looks to me like some bubba-gunsmith tried to do some trigger work with a dremel tool, slipped and took too much off and decided to stop before he screwed up any worse. If I opened one of my guns and saw that I'd be looking for a replacement right away. With it missing that much material, all the pressure from the spring is now focussed on what little material is left of that sear notch, and the remaining material will wear much faster as a result. Not to mention possible slight annealing of the metal during the grinding with the dremel. All told, that to me looks to be an accident waiting to happen.

I'm not saying this is for sure the exact case with your hammer, but that is my thought process, and that is entirely theoretical. Do with it what you will, but in my opinion, new or replacement hammers aren't all that expensive, and definitely not compared to the possibility of an accident.

On a different note, a Jordanian trade in? Sounds interesting. Where did you happen to find it? And do you know any of the history on it?

No worries, new hammer was ordered before I made the original post. Trigger looks okay, but won't know for sure until the hammer comes in.

As for the origins. It has nearly identical markings as this member's Mod 10. I picked it up cheap at a gun show.

New addition......

Very cool! That gun definitely has some character. That's why I love these old guns

Was it dropped while it was cocked?

Not in my hands, not to say it wasn't

There were thousands of these imported from Jordan by Williams Shooters Supply, and mostly sold over the internet. Most I have seen were pretty rough.

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SWCA1967 SWHF244

Definitely not a pristine pistol. Finish has a kinda black chrome patina instead of dark blue. I'll have to post some pics once its back together.

Got the hammer in this afternoon. Worked perfectly with no timing issues right out of the USPS box. Actually double action timing was a bit better. With the old hammer it pretty well dropped the hammer the instant the cylinder locked up. This one spaces it out a bit more.

Anyways, here it is all back together. The grips that came with it were for N frames, so I got the Sile targets off eBay when I bought it.