About 6 months ago I ended up with this revolver after one of those four way trades that covered about 2 months and involved some strange things being swapped back and forth. The gun itself is in pretty good condition though it is missing some blueing due to holster wear. Trigger is wonderful and I think I have finally found some grips that fit my hand.
Planning on taking it out tomorrow and seeing exactly what I can do with it accuracy ways, so last night I started with the cylinder throats to determine what size for the boolits. I first tried a .359 slug, too large. Ran it down to .358, too large. Hmm. Dug around and found a .356 die and ran the boolit through, perfect fit in the cylinder throats. My first thought was 'Here I go again with cylinder throats way too small for the bore'.
Next I decided to slug the bore, just to make sure. Ran a pure lead that was .358 through and when it fell out I found.... 5 lands and grooves, kind of hard to measure. So, I drank another cup of coffee and burned a few more brain cells and decided all I really needed to know at this time is how the slug fit the throats. I placed the slug over a throat, let go and......it fell through without slowing down, on all six cylinders.
It would appear that I have a .38 spl. that has throats @ .356"(9mm) and bore that is under .356". Can anyone say 9mm spl. ?
I see no reason to fight it, size @ .356" to match the throats and shoot my s&w 14-1 9mm spl. the way it wants to be shot.
What say you gurus? Any flaw in the plan?
brotherdarrell