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Posted: Sun Sep 2nd, 2018 10:37 pm

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Well, I went shooting today and burnt up a whole bunch of ammo. That Vortex scope works great, not much to say about it otherwise. M1 Garand kept on pinging to no surprise. Only two malfunctions, same as I had last time, where the round to be fed would kick sideways and subsequently lock the action open. Easy enough to fix. I suspect either a spring isn't keeping enough tension on the rounds or the clips I bought are... less than perfect, shall we say.

I did run into a bit of a bummer with the revolver. The cylinder stop stud fell out at some point. Not sure when, and therefor was not recovered. I can't comment on accuracy as I only put 20 rounds through it at 50 yards. I'm not real good with a handgun past 15 yards, let alone 50, much less a handgun I'm unfamiliar with.

The cylinder stop stud didn't necessarily work well. It worked sometimes, but the cylinder easily jumped over it when swinging out, thus completely defeating it's purpose. I think I can make a new one and then cold blue it, using a little loctite 603 / equivalent to help hold it in place.

....Or, I can buy another one from numrich. I suspect buying an OEM part would land me back where I started, with a cylinder stop that only sometimes works. The revolver is still perfectly usable as it is, only trouble is you have to hold the cylinder while ejecting.

Would be nice if I could fill the hole with a taper pin and cold blued and swap the ejector mechanism with that of a revolver that didn't rely on the frame mounted cylinder stop. Do all revolvers use a frame mounted cylinder stop? I didn't think they did. Suggestions?

Edit. Just looked at a few popular revolvers on google images. Apparently that's the typical style. Was not aware of that.

< Is not revolver savvy, clearly.

Last edited on Sun Sep 2nd, 2018 10:40 pm by TheArcticWolf1911

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