Due to a long story that I will not go into here, this season I am hunting deer and cow elk with my FA .454 Casull instead of my Custom .475 Linebaugh.

Sighting the .454 in a few days ago, with heavy 300 grain Nosler Partition loads

the screw that holds on the ejector rod housing sheared off. I was able to locate housing and rod but the spring vanished (imagine that)

So I am now hunting with a 5 shot revolver (that is fine!)

that I will not be able to reload very fast

but all you need is one shot and the other four are for gun balance, right?

That happened to my Ruger Black Hawk once...Just carry along an unsharpened pencil to push out the empties.. When the season is over send the gun back to FA for repair

Wow! I have had mine loosen up, I always check before I start. Have never heard that previously but it only goes to show how stout the recoil is from this cartridge.

Lost the same screw on a hunt....

Been there!!!

That is my plan.

As far as the pencil, good idea but to set the record straight, a regular pencil is too big (just by a smidgen) to fit in the ejector housing hole of my 83. So I just use the rod.

This happened on my BFR in .454 Casull.

Interesting. I have 4 fa 454's, 3 ruger 454's and have had two bfr 454's. Never had anything shear off. Loosen yes but once i apply loctite not so much. I have close to 50k rounds thru all the guns and have yet to have an issue other than two broken firing pins. Trying to debate whether i trust the rugers more since they have a more robust pin but arent able to be changed out in 30 seconds like the fa guns.

i wonder how many of us has had this happen. never knew of this to happen till it did on mine. thought i was the only one... not so fast ive been told of this several times now. took mine to a fellow i know and it took him the better part of an afternoon to fix while we drank a pot of coffee, told lies, shot other guns, ...