"rim" on cylinder where round enters? final range update.

Converted back to original parts and sent off yesterday.

Got it back today. They changed the grips out and the cylinder. I had a note about a very small chip on the one grip but didn't expect a new set. was just mentioning so they understood I new what the gun had for flaws and wanted it back in as good of condition.

Looks great (other than being dirty from the test cartridges)

Now to put back the hunter grip frame and she'll be just like I like again. With the nice weather this week may even get to the range.

Some of you may know I had a GP100 sight fail too. They sent me a new pack of those as well.

Ruger is top shelf for sure!

The new cylinder was scribed with the last 3 digits of the serial number too if anyone was wondering.

Thanks for the update, and the rundown of what they did...

That was pretty quick of them!

Happy ending except for having to do the work to put the gun back the way it was.
Thanks for the info/story.

Grip frame and hammer is all. 6 screws and a little fiddling will get it back to "custom". I enjoy tinkering anyway.

roylt said:

Got it back today. They changed the grips out and the cylinder. I had a note about a very small chip on the one grip but didn't expect a new set. was just mentioning so they understood I new what the gun had for flaws and wanted it back in as good of condition.

Looks great (other than being dirty from the test cartridges)

Now to put back the hunter grip frame and she'll be just like I like again. With the nice weather this week may even get to the range.

Some of you may know I had a GP100 sight fail too. They sent me a new pack of those as well.

Ruger is top shelf for sure!

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Sounds like Ruger took care of you. Thanks for the update.

Great to hear!!!! Now you can enjoy getting your parts back in her! It is a joy to work on.. let us know how she shoots.. Thank you for the update! George

Shot it today and the first 6 I was half in the black at 25 yards. The next 12 were all black.

I do have one question though. How much space is there supposed to be between the barrel and the chamber?

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You want at least about .003" or it may tend to bind when the cylinder heats up or you get a bit of carbon fouling. Other than that, the tighter the better. I personally think a new gun shouldn't be more than .006 or .007...but I'm told that S&W now considers a BC gap up to .012 "in spec" on their new revolvers. I consider that crazy because my old Model 19 with thousands of rounds through it is at about .009 or .010 and side-spitting quite a bit of powder with full .357 commercial loads...enough so that at an indoor range the burning powder bounces off the lane dividers and hits the side of my face! (Needless to say, that gun doesn't get full-power commercial loads any more.)

However, I have seen tests that indicate that a widening BC doesn't cause as much velocity loss as some folks think...though I suspect that's more true with short barrels than long ones...haven't seen empirical data to back that assumption up.

John

Put the original base pin back in and then went to a hunter hammer (had a bisley in before too) and then the hunter grip frame with grips.

How do you measure that?

It just seemed big when looking with my eye but probably no more than .010

My SBH shorty has a .003" with a wide flat SS feeler gage with a slight drag to it..

roylt said:

How do you measure that?

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Empty the gun
Cock the hammer, pull the trigger and hold it back
Pull cylinder rearward with fingers of second hand
With third hand insert feeler gauge between rear of barrel and front of cylinder

If you're getting acceptable accuracy and the side-flash is not objectionable I'd call it "okay"

Why do you need to hold the trigger back? What does that do to the cylinder placement?

As for side flash, I only have one range as an option for shooting really and it is outside sooo. doesn't bother really.

I never did any of that. Just pull the cylinder back and stick a feeler gauge in the B/C gap. 4 to 6 thousands is optimum.