Blackhawk and Burris Fastfire

[snakeskinner]

I realize that this may be an abomination for some of you but I have both and was "fondling" them this morning and came up with this. It's just loosely clamped to the top strap. I'd actually like to have it drilled and tapped and put a modified Weaver base with a single cross slot. I hunt with my 12 year old son from a buddy stand. I run the camera. It might be nice to have this along for slickhead meat in the freezer. Shots would be under 50 yards with a shooting rail. Any gunsmiths have some helpful hints to go about doing this?

[snakeskinner]

MODS: If this subject is better suited for Handgun Hunting or Handgun General then it won't hurt my feelings one bit for it to be moved.

[2slow]

I'm not a gun smith, but have you thought about the smithless mount that way you can put it back to original if you don't like it? 

By the way, I love the way it looks.  Everyone is always saying that we need to look at our weapons as tools, in my opinion, you are just making your tool more effective and user friendly.  I've actually been considering putting the same dot on my S&W 629, but haven't been able to find much in the way of reviews on the fastfire as to if it can hold up to the .44mag.
Let us know what you decide to do.

[Lloyd Smale]

I dont care for optics on a single action. But thats your choise. I dont know what brand that is but i bought  a couple cheaper knock offs that i had on an ar and a mini and both got tossed in the garbage. As soon as dust got on them and i cleaned them the lenses got so scratched up that the light would reflect off of the scratches and it looked like you were looking through a spider web. Might work on a gun like a 22 that is only seeing plinking but for a battle rifle or a hunting handgun I need something that will take getting a tad dirty. Moral of the story is for what i paid for the two knock offs i could have bought a good aimpoint convetional dot scope that would have worked great for what i wanted it for. I would have to guess though that your burris has better lenses and coatings but be careful the first time you clean it to be sure.

[snakeskinner]

Yeah it's an abomination for sure but it would only be a hunting tool. I would remove it when I went back to shooting plates with my son with 44 special.

The Burris is suppose to handle up to 1000 G forces. Some of the mounts available for them actually mount them on the slide.

I might hafta look into that no drill mount from Weaver but I never liked the barrel clamp and I like it mounted as low as possible. The Weaver mount would put it higher than I want.