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I like smooth actions and nice trigger pulls as much as the next fellow. You can have it all on a single-action revolver with a transfer bar and have six rounds safely on board to boot. It's called having your cake and eating it too.
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I agree completely - a Ruger "New Model" action can be very finely tuned despite having a transfer bar.
A lot of the negativity about transfer bars are connected to the transfer bar "upgrades" Ruger "offered" for the Old Model actions that were originally no-safety. This setup was a Rube Goldberg nightmade even worse than Maurice the FrankenRuger
. It was less reliable and far worse in feel to the New Model action.
(Maurice's trigger (2005-era NewVaq) is very good. Cocking stroke is...well "funky" is a start, as it drags rounds past the magazine that is trying to push a round into the spot one left of the hammer - and succeeds only once an empty chamber comes up in front of it, at which point it gives this massive "klunk" as it slams a round home...which actually tells you that you're down to your last two rounds so...)