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It was designed to use a user field replaceable barrel with an adjustable gap that fit into a barrel shroud. The barrel is held in tension from both ends; where it threads into the frame and at the end of the shroud.So the Dan Wesson 15-2 just gets poor accuracy if you're not diligent with gap and barrel extension? Interesting, you'd kind of think that such an expensive (I think it would be expensive anyway?) revolver would be low maintenance, or is it kind of like the race gun high maintenance thing?
Since it likes heavy 357s and nice long distance shooting you need to make sure the bushing remains tight and the barrel gap constant at .006 (take it down a couple if you want real accuracy and will be shooting slow fire and only about a box of ammo during the session). You don't want to lose the tightening tool that came with it or be without a feeler gauge set and if the gap is set too tightly after a few rounds it becomes zero and the cylinder locks up.
Do your part, use the right tools, set it up right, pick the right ammo and it will make even me look good. And out there near the berm not up close and personal.
BUT, if you buy a used Dan Wesson (Monson guns not the CZ ones, I don't know anything about the CZ ones) you really want to check far more things than you do with the average revolver like the threads at both ends of the barrel and the cylinder lock and that the tools are present and that the shaft for grips has not gotten bent and the threading for the grip is in good shape.
There are a few other things; the cylinder lock in front of the cylinder takes getting used to and also adds another thing to clean under since you do get powder build up under it. The grips are simply on a rod, there is no conventional frame under the grip.
My DW Patriot Experimental is a different beast, the only issue I've had with it was one magazine that would just not feed. Changed springs but it still was not reliable so it got recycled.
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