Originally Posted by
Ron The Old Reb
The maine problem with repro revolvers is not the forcing cone. The main problem is the cylinder. The cylinders are usely reamed several thousand under barrle diamter. Therefor when you seat the ball in the clynder your squeezing it down smaller the the barrel diameter. That is why Tom Ball reamed all the cylinders on the pistols he built to 547 diameter. Putting a new forsing does help but that is not the main issue.
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Isn't .547 a little large for a .44 revolver?
Gil Davis Tercenio
# 3020V
34th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry
Great, great grandson of Cpl Elijah S Davis, Co I, 6th Alabama Inf CSA
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