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S&W barrels would have to be set back the distance of one full turn ............about .028" minus just enough for fitting an appropriate crush. Removing .005" from the shoulder would mean the entire...

Go through disassembly and remove the carrier block. I think you are saying the cartridge did not chamber because of a too large bullet diameter and the extractor was able to pull it back out into...

Sorry for the delay. I have just lived with it. It seems to happen when I operate the lever with the carbine not shouldered. I have not been scraped when the gun is shouldered. So, I guess my...

Bridger, I also have been bitten or scraped by the locking lug on my Miroku '92. I only had Marlins before the Miroku . I had to figure it was just my own bad way of opening the lever. My hits have...

As far as the word "ONLY" in the caliber marking, my made-this-year Winchester 1892 is marked "Caliber 44-40 Win. ONLY" with the capital letters just as I have written. So, it may be anybody's guess...

UnknownUser, I dont think I really answered your question about the length of the tip of the strut if the original part just had its lower forward protrusion removed. From the appearance of my...

UnknownUser , I also wanted to modify the hammer strut on my Miroku 1892 and was concerned about the strut "tang" being too short if I did so. I did not want to tackle this without another...

In regard to post #35 above, I also would like an answer to the spring seat (strut support) to the hammer strut fit when the lower leg of the strut is removed. If the spring is long enough, the...

Indexing the barrel is the "big deal." You may be lucky and the front sight will end pointed up. In the past I've replaced two barrels on revolvers without a lathe but I would not do so again.

I think percussion revolvers have tapered chambers by design. At least the mouth is tapered to accept balls readily. Balls are soft lead. Easily sized down in loading. Obturates easily on firing.

I considered turning all cases I had in stock since so many of them seemed to have rims of maximum diameter and non-concentric to case sides. However, when I marked the supposed high spots of the...

A problem I did have after the ratchet column modification was the pawl began "digging into" the ratchet at the edge of the milled locations. I broke the edges there but the cylinder was still hard...

This is not my first 32 H&R Magnum. I've had five in that caliber and did most of my loading and shooting in the mid-1990's. This Single Six is my first Ruger in that caliber. I'm mostly...

Thanks to all for the replies and measurements. Whichever method I use, by lathe or milling machine, I'll remove as little as .002" at first and try cartridges before dismounting from the machine...

Thank you couriousgeorge, your description seems like you possibly removed .002" at the most. It would be a lot of filing to remove more around the entire column. You did not say, but apparently...

At this point, I don't intend to send it to Ruger but may call hoping to talk to a real gunsmith . I intend to mill the sides of the ratchet myself. I have Kuhnhausen's book on order and it should...

Recently purchased a lightly used older (1986) Ruger Single Six 32. It has a problem accepting cartridges , rims hanging up on the ratchet column. Lots of Google searching and searches on various...

I just solved my own gun's large throat dimension by ordering and receiving a different cylinder. This one is in .38 Special with throat sizes of .358". 38 Special is more to my liking anyway.

My preferred alternatives to the .41 Special suggestion is :
replace the cylinder with another .38 and/or .357,
replace barrel and cylinder with .44 Special,
replace barrel and...

I just found this somewhat older thread with search. I just purchased a newly made (2022 dated) Cattleman in .357 magnum. Throats were measured at .365 using gage pins on all six throats. Called...

I have never known anyone to use a later N-frame barrel on a Triple Lock, nor use a TL barrel on a later N-frame. I am not sure anyone besides the late Dave Chicoine would be familiar with this...

I did measure the O.D. of the TL and the HD cylinders. They were the same.

1.704" measured at the rear.

The source that first brought up the differing dimensions I wrote about above is in _Smith &Wesson, 1857 - 1945_, by Roy Jinks and Robert Neal. There it is stated that the distance from chamber...

I found this thread a little late to comment. I'm pretty certain that the triple lock revolvers, the New Century's, had a different dimension of bore center to cylinder axis center than later...

Thirty three years ago I modified some 45 Colt cases for loading 455 Colt/Eley to shoot in an S&W 455 second model. I did not have a lathe then so had a local gunsmith thin the rims to .039-.040” and...