For years I've been doing my own gunsmithing and have gotten pretty good at getting a decent trigger pull. I recently tried to replace the hand in my 617 because it was slightly out of time. That's where I went above my skill level and had to call my friend Nelson Ford, The Gunsmith to help fix up my project.

Wow, gunsmiths are getting a lot of money for when we screw up. He said he could fix the hand and also that the yoke was bent. Another thing I do not have to tools to fix.

I have an Apex Tactical hammer in the gun and Nelson was hesitant to work on it and asked for the original hammer and the original hand. I had the hand but the hammer made it to the trash bin when the Apex was installed.

Looks like it will take him a month to get around to it. Shame because I wanted to shoot it at next month's Steel Challenge Match. ( I shoot my revolver much better than my Mamba).:gun4:

Hi neighbor. When you reference 'curmudgeon' in a web-search, invariably you will find Nelson's photo there. He's a character.