ENCO pin gauges...Cool!!

[PatMarlin]

That's why I bought the pins Bill is the go- no go.

Even with just the minus set, you have that, though not as precise as you explain.

Some day I may get the plus sets, but maybe I won't ever need them for what I will be doing.

Thanks for going into detail on these pins.

[Willbird]

I agree the minus pins give the most utility, and that is all I have of my own here at home.

Bill

[edlmann]

I have my new set also. This has proven something that I suspected...my Ruger Blackhawk in .41 mag has 2 tight cylinder throats.
I have noticed that I usually have 2 fliers when I shoot. So I'm wondering about opening these throats up.
I have used a reamer to open the cylinder holes on my .45 Colt Blackhawk, and that worked nicely.
Does anybody know if a similar reamer can be located for the .41 mag?

Apparently, Manson Reamers (see page 8) does not make one.

However, Cylindersmith lists .41 mag as one of the calibers he does.

Clymer does not seem to offer throating reamers.

Nor does Pacific Tool & Gauge.

If you have only one .41 Mag, Cylinder Smith's $39 price, shipped, seems pretty reasonable.

[edlmann]

. . . thin Chinese rice paper soaked in some UNKNOWN oil or grease of some sort. Whatever it is it did make me itch !?!?

Had bamboo in my grandmother's yard growing up. What was sold as novelty itching powder looked exactly like bamboo seeds/pollen.