When heading to the range check to make sure the cylinder in the revolver matches tha ammunition you are taking BEFORE you leave. A public service announcement from Thumbcocker.
When heading to the range check to make sure the cylinder in the revolver matches tha ammunition you are taking BEFORE you leave. A public service announcement from Thumbcocker.
Paper targets aren't your friends. They won't lie for you and they don't care if your feelings get hurt.
I’ll bet there is a story in that piece of advice
FWIW,
Dale53
Yeah them Colts won't go in a ACP cyl worth a hoot .
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Did it convert you to a spotter and 9mm ammo depot?
ditto. Been there, done that.
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Ditto on that. It's not fun to be so excited to get to the range when you load up and drive 20 miles and unload and forget the ammo. Ugh! Back home, back to the range, shoot and go home. Wasted a good hour or more driving instead of shooting.
Drove from Ohio to Michigan for a competition. Packed the truck the evening before, except gun box and ammunition. Got to the match, unpacked, no ammunition!! My closest rival heard what happened and spotted me enough ammunition to compete for the day. After that, I always had enough ammunition to shoot each match twice so I could help someone.
Kevin
Knowledge I take to my grave is wasted.
I prefer to use cartridges born before I was.
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Yup, and dem jamomatics need da metal thingymabobs that ya put toes boolits into too.
Heck,,, you should buy a gun, then go to the range only to discover it has the ACP cylinder when it was sold as a Colt caliber. (That happened to a friend recently, and his son made the comment; "Dad, the ammo won't fit!" He told me that when he was looking at buying the gun, he didn't think to check the chambers!)
Oh, dang. Now you tell me. I drove 3 hours to a seminar at the range only to discover I had my trusty .44 Special Colt’s SAA and hundreds of rounds of .44 Special ammo, but I had the .44-40 cylinder in it.
Years ago I bought a “45 Colt” Ruger New Model which turned out to be a 45 ACP. I returned it and was 45 Colt-less for a number of years thereafter.
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You revolver guys have the weirdest problems.......
Well, we are a bunch of senile old geezers here and that doesn't help! Gp
I learned to always keep both cylinders boxed up with the gun. This avoids losing the cylinder for a couple years in not remembering where you tucked it, which happened to me. Didn't "find" the .45 Colt cylinder for my NMRBH until I repacked boxes from my move to West VA several years ago. Just sayin'
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HE wants to know what YOU know.
Keep it to yourself.
I've never had any problems with ammo or cylinders. I keep the Ruger in a rug along with the extra cylinder. So, if I take along .45ACP or .45 Colt, I can make any required adjustments.
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Yep,
I keep both cylinders in the pistol rug with their revolver.
I did buy an OM Ruger Single Six that was sold as a .22LR. The salesman even pulled out the cylinder to show me it didn't fit a .22Mag.
It didn't fit a .22Mag because the cylinder was so "cruded up" with powder residue from shooting .22LR in it's. 22Mag chambers.
GEEZ, I was ticked off. No satisfaction at the Gun Shop. But eventually bought a NM Long Rifle cylinder and had it fitted.
Learned 45yrs ago to keep both cylinders with the revolver.
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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 |