Hey yall. I have an old anaconda I picked up at a gun show years ago. Never shot it much. Just some factory loads here and there. Got some .44 brass and cast boolits in my dads stuff after he passed and I have time to monkey with this stuff now so I thought Id see if I could put some powder between em and maybe shoot something this fall with it.
Dad lube sized those bullets for his contender, his dies are marked .429. I went to check the bore size on the revolver and did some reading here first and realized thats not the thing to do. I guess I need to measure cylinder throats. Well.........most folks I know would consider me a bit of a gun expert, I know a lot of stuff about a lot of gun stuff, but Im at a bit of a loss here. If Im right, the cylinder throat is the bit after the part of the chamber Im gonna call the case stop, I dont know the tech term. But its that line in the chamber that would prevent an over long case from seating on the cylinder face. If I measure 6 of those with cerro safe I imagine Ill get 6 different numbers. Do I size to the lowest number? Am I right about what a cyl throat is? Why am I not just sizing to the forcing cone or .001 over grooves?
Speaking of knowing too much about gun stuff, did yall know that both the main designer of the predecessor to the luger pistol, and the guy who invented box magazines worked for Sharpe's, THE single shot rifle company of their day. Weird