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Thread: S&W model 60

  1. #21
    Boolit Master
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    Like others stoning/polishing the rebound slide, spring hole in rebound slide and a lighter rebound slide spring help DA trigger a great deal. Fill it with snap caps, practice pulling the trigger DA as fast as you can until you can go 50 or 100 pulls rapidly without stopping. This will polish the moving parts and develop your hand strength for DA firing. I don't normally change out or reduce main springs. polishing the mainspring strut might also help a little.

  2. #22
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    Some suggestion:

    Gun wise:
    12-13# replacement rebound spring. I have done every Smith I have ever owned and that makes a big difference

    Grips that really fit your hand and don't slip at all when fired DA


    DA Practice:
    Start out slow fire at 5-7 yards aiming at a 1" dot on a 6" paper plate or half-piece of typing paper. Trigger roll should be VERY slow almost staged in the beginning looking only for tiny groups and learning trigger control.

    Once that is to your satisfaction up the speed but still trying to get as small as groups as possible at the dot. Then get rid of the dot just trying to hit the plate in the center as fast as possible.

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    Bob

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    As a dedicated user of the snubnose platform I will add a little bit to this discussion.
    The DA J-frame Smith is a proven concept but it requires practice. There's a temptation to put big grips on that little J-frame and that does make the gun far easier to shoot but it also destroys the primary attribute of those guns which is the ability to conceal them. When you put big grips on a snubnose J-frame you turn the gun into a K-frame sized gun.
    That leaves you with the quandary of what to do with that little gun - and the only real solution is to practice, practice, practice.

    The guns themselves are capable of excellent accuracy but it is difficult to extract that accuracy from that platform. That's a user issue and not a gun issue.

    Snubnose J-frames require a high level of dedication and there's just no way around that.

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Abbreviations used in Reloading

BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN Lead Round Nose LWC Lead Wad Cutter LSWC Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC Gas Check