How wide are those .38 special carbon stains?

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Gunsmoker
August 7, 2007, 10:00 PM
I see a 1 cm wide mark in the chambers in my guns, but I'm not sure they are .38 special carbon stains.

How wide are these usually?
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dfariswheel
August 8, 2007, 02:08 PM
Could be the chamber "shoulder" that prevents loading longer cartridges.
Modern revolvers have a slight shoulder in the chamber.

Best way to tell what's there is to buy a bronze chamber cleaning brush from Brownell's and scrub the chambers.
The Brownell's bronze chamber brush is a special, extra-stiff bristle, over-sized brush that really cleans a chamber out, WITHOUT damaging the chambers, and works better than using an over-caliber bore brush.

DO NOT use a stainless brush for this.

http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/store/ProductDetail.aspx?p=1287&title=BRONZE+RIFLE%2fPISTOL+CHAMBER+BRUSHES
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