Just bought a Model 10-7 Bill Davis PPC Custom.

[h8rsMadEf4mou5]

Just bought this beauty from a nice gentlemen on here... This is a Bill Davis Custom PPC. It is built on a Model 10-7. I am replacing the current grips,<I think they are a micarta or some other kind of hard plastic composite> with the same style only in Indian ebony... replacing the under-lug with a full block and thinking of slabbing the sides of the barrel.

Something crazy.. I am also throwing the idea around of getting it nickel plated....nickel-plated PPC, weird huh? Once I am through with this gun, it will be my baby... Can't wait to get it there!

 

[C Islander]

I like PPC guns and yours is a fine example. I know where there's a Powers Custom 686 for sale. Unfortunately, I can't afford it at this time.

 

[h8rsMadEf4mou5]

Thank's, I was gonna get that done to my 686 plus... you know the works, but being just a casual shooter I couldn't afford the almost 3 thousand from Clark's to get my L frame to where I wanted. Trust me, I know where you are coming from.

 

[teezer]

nice gun

i've owned a few PPC customs in the past, i wouldn't change a thing, much less have it nickeled (way to shiney when shooting)

grips look like original Rogers combats ~~~ best grips i've found that fit my paws

 

[CALREB]

Davis

The Davis one is over 20 years old and still holds x-ring even if I dont.
2 tone built by Craig Maravio ? Davis gunsmith after Davis closed for my wife when she shot and a AT Custom slabside. Just cant seem to part with them even though they get shot less every year.Bob

 

[teezer]

now, THAT'S GUN PORN

 

[GyMac]

Congratulations! That should be a shooting machine.

 

[h8rsMadEf4mou5]

Thanks to all above... and nice guns, those three look like a fun day.... I know the grips are amazing.. I am having them copied down to the last detail carved from ebony... As to the nickel plating...I am going to keep the sights blued of course.. just imagine trying to get a sight picture staring down that thing with the sun over your head!

Question.... what do you guys think of slabbing the barrel and swappin the under-lug? You wouldn't change it?

 

[PERAZZI]

I'm never sooooo lucky..

 

[bgrafsr]

This is my Clark Custom PPC Model 10-8. In the photo it shows the Aristocrat rib with the sight adjustment on the rear, but I did not like it, so I bought a Bill Davis Aristocrat rib with the three position adjustable front sight, and installed it on the gun.

 

[h8rsMadEf4mou5]

Niiice gun.... where did you get your forward adjusting aristocrat sight rib? AND did the under-lug come with it?

 

[teezer]

had a pm with poster on the grips, here's mine

 

[h8rsMadEf4mou5]

Nice...and those are the plastic safariland's?

 

[teezer]

Nice...and those are the plastic safariland's?

those are the original Rogers, bought new around 1977-78 ?

 

[h8rsMadEf4mou5]

those are the original Rogers, bought new around 1977-78 ?

They are beautiful, and that is a beautiful gun.

 

[Sportsterguy]

Congrats! Very nice revolver and the others are in that group too. Was lucky to have shot one years ago and it had the best trigger of any S&W I ever shot. Was young and can't remember the model or who did the work.

 

[teezer]

one i should have never sold, was a custom PPC python that i had in the early 1980's ~~~ was told it was built by a gunsmith out of Texas ~~~ slab douglas barrel, Bo mar rib, conical barrel end, double action only with contoured trigger for a right-hander, and the smoothest action i've ever felt on a colt ~~~ also the best staged position i've experienced

after trying it about a half dozen times in my PPC league, i went back to my S&W k38, definitely a better gun than my skillset

 

[M29since14]

...i wouldn't change a thing, much less have it nickeled (way to shiney when shooting)

I'd consider that. An original Davis gun might not be a Michelangelo, but I wouldn't tamper with it at this point unless something needs repaired. It's an artifact and doesn't really have much to do with "the modern world." Why change that?

 

[bgrafsr]

Niiice gun.... where did you get your forward adjusting aristocrat sight rib? AND did the under-lug come with it?

The underlug was part of the package. I found the 3 position adjustable front sight rib on EBay for $150.00, and sold the other one for $125.00 to a friend who was looking for one for his PPC gun.

I have to ask. What is the meaning of your screen name, it's got me curious?

 

[Shooter6br]

Grips?

Look like Safariland grips similar to my Mod 10-6