.223 revolver???

[Savage Shooter]

Just wondering does anyone make a .223 revolver. If so who, and how much.
thanks

 

[highorder]

Watch the cylinder gap. That would take fingers OFF.

 

[Zundfolge]

I was just thinking about this.

Taurus could beef up The Judge a little bit and maybe do a 6" or 8" barrel and that would be a pretty cool wheelgun.

Although a better bet would be to have Magnum Research make a BFR in .223 (they make one in .45/70, so why not?)

Watch the cylinder gap. That would take fingers OFF.

Yeah, but the gap would be pretty far forward so you'd have to have Andre the Giant hands to get your fingers out that far.

Plus I can't imagine its any worse than .454 Casull

 

[LightningMan]

If they can make a revolver in a 600 nitro mag, I expect they can do a .223 or pretty much anything.
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[R.W.Dale]

The thing about bottlenecked rifle cartridges is if everything isn't exactly right the case head sets back against the breach face and locks the cyl up. I have a BFR in 30-30win and even at the low pressure this cartridge operates at if I'm not fastidious about keeping the cylinder bores 100% oil free the cylinder rotation will get very very tight after firing. A revolver in a high pressure bottlenecked cartridge (like .223) would be of a far worse magnitude of picky.

After cleaning I actually swab the chambers down with rubbing alcohol.

 

[Storm]

I have a Taurus catalog with a .223 Raging Bull listed due in 2007, but I never saw that gun come about. Did they end up scraping it?

 

[Savage Shooter]

I was just playing around on the computer looking at weird guns and came across a .223 taurus but It was just a picture it looked pretty cool. I will try and find it again.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

I have to imagine it would put on quite a light show when fired.

 

[Storm]

Here's the 2007 Tuarus catalog listing.

 

[rcmodel]

As krochus said, high-pressure bottleneck rounds & revolvers don't play well together.

This is due to case expansion and the resulting cylinder binding.
High-pressure rounds need to be straight walled in order to slip back in the chambers after firing to provide cylinder clearance.

I'd guess Taurus ran into it, and figured the guns would generate a steady stream of dissatisfied customers who don't want to clean the chambers with alcohol and Q-Tips every 15 minutes at the range to keep them working.

rcmodel

 

[Brian Williams]

Another Answer to a question not needed to be asked.

 

[Storm]

I'd guess Taurus ran into it, and figured the guns would generate a steady stream of dissatisfied customers who don't want to clean the chambers with alcohol and Q-Tips every 15 minutes at the range to keep them working.

I'd bet that you are correct.

Fortunately that hasn't been the case with the .17 HMR Tracker or the Raging Bee and Hornet, but I don't think that we are talking about the pressures of the .223.