Best Single Action Revolvers...

[MCgunner]

The added benefit of going bang when you just pull the trigger - without cocking that hammer manually - can't be ignored, either

For hunting or outdoor uses, even bear defense, sure it can. I'm faster out of the leather with the Blackhawks than I am with DA guns. Just takes practice. They point more natural, too. I tend to shoot low point shooting at close range with a DA grip frame. And, if there are any better SA triggers out there than my Blackhawks, the difference is so minimal as to be un-noticable. Heck, if we ever get open carry here, one of my Blackhawks would be a preferred carry even for self defense because of its speed and pointability out of leather.

If you want a calibration standard for the worst trigger available, get a re-arsenalled Russian 1895 Nagant. DA or SA, you'll hear your finger's ligaments/muscles stretching long before it goes bang. Ruger SA's are somewhere between a S&W in SA and a Nagant.

LOL. Friend of mine has three of those things. I cannot place in my mind an actual use for a gun with such an un-manageable trigger. I can shoot DA pretty accurately, but the DA on all my revolvers, Smith, Ruger, Taurus, even Rossi, is far better than the SA on those things. I've never actually fired a round from his Nagants, but I don't know if I could hit squat with 'em. In DA I'm pretty sure I couldn't.

 

[millertyme]

For sure, one thing I could wish for on my Vaq is a lighter trigger, but my buddy's 686 wasn't anything to hoot and hollar about. It was slightly lighter, but not by enough to equate a Ruger with the middle ground between a Nagant and a Smith.