Thursday, August 27, 2020

Someone had some fun with this


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  1. Doesn't the excessive powder stains on cylinder mean that something is off on either timing, alignment or cylinder gapping issues? I have shot wheel guns forever but have always used blued weapons. My Smiths have never had that amount of soiling as it would rub off on your hand when handling the weapon. The pistol just seems excessively dirty,

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    1. Which means someone had a lot of fun shooting it that much.

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    2. It is probably a dirty burning powder. With the gun being a top-break it needs a diet of fairly soft loads. Most powders will be very dirty at the bottom ends of their recommended loads. This is not uncommon for top-breaks to be this dirty after 100 rounds.

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    3. If that's an original #3 in 44 Russian or 38/200 it would be a black powder cartridges which would explain all the soot.

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  2. Those cartridges look too small for 44 Russian or 38. Seems more like 32 S&W long.

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