Show me your Bowen customs. I think I need one.

[Erich]

Oh yeah!

 

[230grfmj]

Here's one that I had done by Hamilton Bowen that I used to own and it's now owned by a friend of mine. He’s a member here on this Forum and of the S&WCA too and may chime in on this.

The frame is a pre war N frame 38/44 Outdoorsman, and the barrel is from a 5” pre war .44 HE 3rd model that I had Ham Bowen fit to this frame. It did not have to be rebored or re-rollmarked to 44 Special. He bored out the cylinder to .44 Special.

The front sight originally was the normal forged half moon shaped sight used on fixed sighted guns. He milled off the half moon, made a Patridge blade and installed into the blade and inserted a gold bead to resemble a "Call" gold bead, and then pinned it to the forged base, while not disturbing the original shape of the base.

The cylinder has the front edge given what Ham Bowen refers to as the “black powder chamfer” as you can see in the pictures.

The grips are made of elephant ivory made by Roy Fishpaw and were hand fitted to this frame and numbered to it as well. The emblems are pre war (.500”) on mint condition (never re-nickeled or any other type of refinishing) that I sent to Roy to use when making these grips.

 

[Sprefix]

Wow!!!!!! And I mean WOW!!!!!!!! Those are incredible. I was on his site and had to stop. I durn-neared shorted out my keyboard droolin' like a drunk on payday. Thanks guys and the book will be ordered in short order................Sprefix

 

[The Gila Bender]

Here's one that I had done by Hamilton Bowen that I used to own and it's now owned by a friend of mine. He’s a member here on this Forum and of the S&WCA too and may chime in on this.

The frame is a pre war N frame 38/44 Outdoorsman, and the barrel is from a 5” pre war .44 HE 3rd model that I had Ham Bowen fit to this frame. It did not have to be rebored or re-rollmarked to 44 Special. He bored out the cylinder to .44 Special.

The front sight originally was the normal forged half moon shaped sight used on fixed sighted guns. He milled off the half moon, made a Patridge blade and installed into the blade and inserted a gold bead to resemble a "Call" gold bead, and then pinned it to the forged base, while not disturbing the original shape of the base.

The cylinder has the front edge given what Ham Bowen refers to as the “black powder chamfer” as you can see in the pictures.

The grips are made of elephant ivory made by Roy Fishpaw and were hand fitted to this frame and numbered to it as well. The emblems are pre war (.500”) on mint condition (never re-nickeled or any other type of refinishing) that I sent to Roy to use when making these grips.

Yup, I'm the lucky guy! When I first saw this beauty posted way back in '08 I couldn't get it out of my mind. Then I learned that it lived a few miles away and I could have it TODAY! On the way over the voice in my head kept saying "you're out of your mind!" But gee whiz, look at it -- Bowen .44 conversion with an original .44 barrel on a prewar OD, gold bead, Fishpaw ivories, the works.

Many moons later I bought a postwar 5" long action .45HD from Hamilton Bowen (pictured), but the .44 Target is still my favorite.