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Good for you @Barry loyd I like to see men do things like this.
Good grief...didn't take long for that to start.
Has no one here heard of a Model 13?? It's a K-Frame .357, same as a Model 10 heavy barrel, only in .357-
Exactly. From a manufacturing standpoint it would make absolutely no sense to take tens of thousands of K-Frame cylinder blanks and heat treat some of them for chambering in .38 Special and some for .357 Magnum.
I did something similar with a Police Service 6 .38 Special except I don't have the wherewithal or tools to rechamber cylinders, I just bought a Security 6 cylinder/crane assembly off of eBay for $50 and swapped them out.
35W
I do NOT want to know when [ NOT IF ] this ends in the ruination of your face,hands,others in your AO.
If you have any clue as to the C.U.P. of the .38 smith & Wesson special,v/s the C.U.P. of the .357 magnum = and you persist at this,sorry but put me on your insurance PLEASE.
And if you don't know what C.U.P. means,your really playing with a match that will light you up.
Good grief...didn't take long for that to start.
why not just swap to a .357 cylinder? didn't they make a k frame .357? I guess if you just wanted to see if you could do it and if it would work, nicely done. seems a little risky, not that is all bad - but, the boring police will give you a hard time I'm sure
Has no one here heard of a Model 13?? It's a K-Frame .357, same as a Model 10 heavy barrel, only in .357-
I remember the old gunwriter Jan Liborel wrote and article about a trip he made through the S&W factory and he stated the 38 and 357 cylinders all got the same heat treatment. He even had a photo of the cylinders in the rack that was loaded into the oven.
Exactly. From a manufacturing standpoint it would make absolutely no sense to take tens of thousands of K-Frame cylinder blanks and heat treat some of them for chambering in .38 Special and some for .357 Magnum.
I did something similar with a Police Service 6 .38 Special except I don't have the wherewithal or tools to rechamber cylinders, I just bought a Security 6 cylinder/crane assembly off of eBay for $50 and swapped them out.
35W