Author Topic: Hawes FireArms Company (Read 4686 times)

joe z · « **on:** February 03, 2004, 05:03:59 PM »

Western SixShooter .22 made by JP Sauer and Sohn, W Germany. If you come across one of these sometime take a close look. I bought one today, price was very reasonable and it is a very well made gun. It is made on a large frame but is an alloy, lined barrel and cylinder with rose wood grips. I still like my Rugers but just couldn't help myself today. Joe :cb2:

44 Man · « **Reply #1 on:** February 04, 2004, 07:56:12 AM »

Almost bought one of those back in the 70's. Now I wish I had. With the alloy parts it did not seem overly heavy, but you still had a full sized gun. Too fast old, too slow smart! 44 Man

Lloyd Smale · « **Reply #2 on:** February 04, 2004, 12:08:06 PM »

had one for a first handgun it seemed stout but it was real rough cocking. There must have been a bur somewhere i ended up selling it. I wonder now that i know a little bit about single actions how good of a gun it really was.

Catfish · « **Reply #3 on:** February 04, 2004, 12:43:19 PM »

Joe,
I was in Germany when they brought those guns out. They brought out a whole line of them up through .44 mag. The whole line was to light and would not hold up in the cal. they were chambered in, so they drilled them out and put in a smaller liner. I fired on of the original in .44 mag. and it was not a pleasent experance. I guy that had bought the gun had a bloody hand from the gun twisting in his hand and the trigger eating his finger. They aren`t bad guns after haveing the barrels relined.

John Traveler · « **Reply #4 on:** February 06, 2004, 05:18:31 PM »

I had a Hawes single action revolver made by J.P. Sauer & Sons in the early 1970's. A Guns and Ammo Magazine article dubbed them "the poor man's commemoratives" because they available in versions combining brass backstrap, rosewood grips, nickleplated cylinder, and high polish blue. Calibers were .22 LR/.22 WRM, .357 Magnum (mine), .44 Magnum, and .45 Colt. They were advertised as "Silver City Marshal", etc.

The frames were simular to the Colt SAA size, but the cylinders were larger diameter. Centerfire versions were steel frame & cylinder, but the rimfire versions had zinc alloy cylinders with lined chambers. The frame mounted firing pin was always sticking and locked up a fired case. The front sight came loose, and the cylinder quickly developed endshake.

I thought the cylinder lining was to reduce weight, not because the centerfire guns were converted to rimfire. Never heard that before.

The trigger and hammer notches on the sample I had wore quickly to an unsafe "hair" trigger. I asked a gunsmith to rechamber & rebarrel it to .45 Colt and he refused. The guns apparently did not last long because the importer Hawes went out of business in the late 1970's. It was a modestly priced gun, and only "okay", but did not equal the Colt product.

John