Nighthawk Custom Korth Revolvers
Or I feel bad for actually wanting a $4,800 wheelgun
Nighthawk has teamed up with Korth to make some really slick custom revolvers. I handled them at their booth at the NRA Annual Meeting. The lower end of the spectrum is the Sky Hawk, a 9mm revolver:
And here’s the Mongoose, in 357:
And here’s the sexy looking Supersport, also in 357:
Given that I shoot almost exclusively plastic handguns, I’m amazed at how a lot of these metal triggers feel. The Korths definitely had a some of the slickest triggers I’ve ever dry fired. These are very expensive handguns, for what they are. But they are nice. I also snagged a video of the Sky Hawk’s internals in operation. I’ve understood, basically, how revolvers work for a while. But to see it in action made it clear:
May 21st, 2016 at 2:47 pm
The cutaway is neat.
May 21st, 2016 at 7:54 pm
Excuse me? Did you misplace a decimal point on that price? And if not, which of the revolvers does it apply to?
May 21st, 2016 at 8:39 pm
Stretch,
The Super Sport is the $4,800 pistol. The Sky Hawk is only $1,700 and the Mongoose is a paltry $3,500.
I’ve kinda wanted a Sky Marshal Korth for a while. Except it’s got an exposed hammer. If they made it in a hammerless design so it didn’t snag… I still wouldn’t buy it because I don’t have that kind of money. But I’d have it on the list of lottery guns. Because why not? 9mm revolver, amirite?
May 21st, 2016 at 10:45 pm
If you’re there again tomorrow: Obviously not a wheel gun, but try the trigger on the Dan Wesson Bruin. Long slide 1911 in 10mm. I can’t tell you what it measures, but it feels like magic. The want is strong.
May 23rd, 2016 at 3:07 pm
I’ve got a Smith Performance Center 327 TRR8 8-shot .357 Magnum with a 5″ barrel. When I bought it it was just over 1/5th the price of the Super Sport.
I think you’d like it. It’s certainly my favorite wheel-gun. The trigger – single- and double-action – is excellent.
May 23rd, 2016 at 6:50 pm
Kevin,
The DA triggers on the Nighthawk Korths at the show, while not as nice as the older Korth I got to try some years ago, were better than any out-of-the-box Smiths I’ve ever tried, PC guns includes, and I’ve sampled one or two Smiths over the years.
One would expect that, given the design of the action.
The question, of course, it are they enough better to justify the tariff. That’s up to the buyer.
(I’ll note that Nighthawk and its competitors sell thousands of $3k+ 1911s all year long and nobody bats an eye, but bring in a similarly-priced revolver and everybody loses their minds.)
May 23rd, 2016 at 7:55 pm
You could find a pristine Colt Python for that!
May 23rd, 2016 at 8:33 pm
And yet nobody ever says “You could find a pristine prewar commercial Colt for that!” when someone mentions the price of a Wilson. Weird.
May 24th, 2016 at 2:46 am
The last revolver I bought, and it wasn’t super cheap, had edges on it sharper than some of my knives, it had a creepy trigger, and it still had lapping grit or some such in the base pin from the factory, and the front sight was loose.
I’m beginning to believe that you need to spend thousands of dollars to get a finished gun.
Unc; if the gun fits you, and it’s as awesome as they say, then buy it, but spend some time with it first. It seems I always find the problems with a new gun after I get it home.
If I’m spending a lot of money on a revolver, I’m definitely going to want a hammer that can be thumb-cocked. Snag schmag. All my guns snag on things. You could design a gun that’s a smooth sphere with a hole in it and I’ll find a way to snag it on all kinds of things.