I've had this pistol for about 10 years, and I did hate it! The trigger was horrible! Double action was hard and single action was off the chart. I don't have a trigger pull gauge but suffice it to say it was unshootable. In the safe it went.
Being winter and bored, I watched some Youtube videos on slicking up the action and found an excellent one my MCarbo. I was impressed enough to order their spring kit and them hammer, hammer dog and trigger shims from Triggershims.com. After a couple hours of work slicking the triggergroup up and installing shims I was surprised to find that the action was now slicker than snot! The improvement was substantial! So I then ordered a Hi Viz front sight, installed it and hit the range.
I had 1,000 148 grain .358 DEWC's loaded over 2.7 grains of Titegroup and proceded to blast away with my slicked up GP! Fun was had until I got home and proceded to clean the revolver...the thing was nasty with lead! On the outside of the forcing cone! Clumps of it! I hated it again! I had to scrape it with a pocketknife and a smashed .556 case to get it off.
I did some research and found that a .357 jacketed boolit would not go through the the front of the cylinder. they were way undersized, and also found that the Ruger forcing cone was a 5 degree one that does not play well with lead! So I rented an 11 degree forcing cone reamer from 4D rentals, and sent my cylinder to Doug Guy to be reamed to .3585.
I got the forcing cone reamer while Doug Guy had my cylinder and slowky reamed and checked with the guage until it was perfect. Doung had my cylinder for about a week turnaround and what a beautiful job (at a reasonable price) he did!
Assembled and off to the range! slick action, good sights, properly set up for lead boolits and boy howdy! At 15 yards over a rest I got a ragged hole!
So thanks to MCarbo, Triggershims, 4D rentals, and Doug Guy plus a bit of labor I turned a revolver I was going to sell into one that is now my "Watch this" pistol! I love it when a plan comes together!