Never been particularly impressed with accuracy from my cap revolvers. Tried every trick in the book except this that recently came to my attention.
In every other firearm i have slugged the barrel for the groove diameter and always loaded at least this diameter boolit or a thou or two over groove for accuracy.
Recently i have seen a blurp or two about the cylinder versus barrel diameters not matching on the modern cap revolvers ... so i set out to see where mine came in in this regard.
Both Uberti, one a 60 civilian and a 61 civilian revolvers.
The 44 cal 60 is a .455 inch groove barrel with a .448 cylinder diameter.
The 36 cal 61 is a .380 groove with a .374 inch cylinder.
Both having a .006 and .007 inch difference between grove needs and cylinder provisions.
Seems to me for total engagement and gas seal in the barrel i will need to have these cylinders reamed to provide the correct size boolit into the forcing cone.
Do this ring true to anyone or sound like I'm suckin hind tit?