Okay, this may be my third thread on this general topic, I swear that I’m learning…if slowly.
So I’m a fan of the 41 mag and have been thinking that I should get the cylinders of several revolvers and a sizing die honed, that would sure make my life easy!
So I slug the barrels, and now I don’t know what to do. Here are the sizes:
.4050 (m657)
.4069 (m57)
.4099 (redhawk)
.4101 (m57)
Yes, several slugs of each to confirm.
Yes, dead soft lead for the slugs.
Yes, calibrated starrett micrometer.
Assuming that the chambers are sized larger than the barrels (IDK, not patient enough to slug 24 of them) the two largest will almost certainly shoot the same size bullet, but I’m guessing that the smaller bores won’t like the same size bullet.
Maybe hone the largest two to .412?
If I hone the smallest two to .408 the m657 will probably shoot that well, and then sell the .4069 m57 if it doesn’t like the same bullet?
At least that gets me to 2 sizes.
The marlin 1894 is getting rebarrelled, think it’ll measure .410 so should shoot a .412 bullet.
I really want to like the m657 with a 3” barrel, but that bore seems tiny. Not exactly easy to buy a dozen of them and keep the one that matches the other bores.
I’m leaning toward honing the smaller two at .408 and the larger two at .412 and then see how they shoot.
Anyone care to weigh in on this plan?