wobbly34b said:
Picked up my new single 7 Sat. Couldn't find any ammo till today. I had trouble loading, felt like they did not de-burr the chambers of the cylinder. After I fired 7 rounds I could exstract only 3 of them. I loaded 3 more rounds and fired them. I then could not exstract any of them so I gave up and went home. After looking things over I discovered that there is very little clearance between the rim of the cartridge and the opening of the loading gate. I was then able to exstract all 7 empties.
Has anyone else had a similer exsperiance?
My 357 Blackhawk and 44 Super Blackhawk are certainly not that difficult to load and unload.
Bob
There is a lengthly discussion about this very "problem" on the rugerforum.net site. The fact of the matter is that the masses asked for a 327 in a Single Six sized frame. To handle the pressures of the 327 the chambers had to be located between the locking bolt notches in the cylinder. For that to happen it had to have an odd number of chambers, the Single Seven was born.
You now have a small cylinder with seven big holes, stacked pretty close together, in a, not a whole lot of room for a loading chute, frame. Everything has to be lined up just right to load and unload.
Where the aggravation come in is that everything lines up just before a "click". If you go to the click you have gone to far and cain't go back, you have to go all the way around to load the missed chamber. That's not a problem it's just the nature of the beast.
Some folks have honed out the loading chute with a dremel to allow loading at a click. You don't have to remove much material to accomplish this. i didn't like the idea of grinding the frame of such a high pressure cartridge.
I think after some time spent shooting your SS you will find that it's not difficult to line the holes up with the chute to load/unload. I have put 3 or 4 thousand rounds through mine and have no trouble lining things up.
Now if someone would come out with Lever gun in 327 I'd be a Happy, Happy man