Springs breaking a lot.

[Skinny 1950]

I have been shooting cap and ball revolvers for a little over 2 years now and have had four trigger/bolt springs break and half a dozen hand springs snap off. Am I unlucky or is this common for these guns? The flat trigger/bolt springs break close to the screw hole and the hand springs snap close to where they are crimped into the hand.
I have seen a wire replacement for the flat trigger/bolt spring and it looks like it is more durable than the flat type, has anyone tried this type of spring??
Thanks for any input.

 

[mykeal]

Your experience is very unusual in my opinion. It's not uncommon for a spring to break every few years, but four trigger/bolt springs and six hand springs in two years is way above average.

The wire springs are much more durable.

 

[Smokin'Joe]

These problems are easy to repair:

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=623759

http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4903516#post4903516

 

[Fingers McGee]

The solution to broken hand springs is a coil spring and plunger conversion
http://www.theopenrange.net/forum/index.php?topic=5659.0

As far as trigger/bolt springs go, I just keep spares to replace broken ones. Some people use wire springs though.

 

[CraigC]

Very unusual! I've been shooting traditional single actions for 25yrs and have only had one spring break, which was the hand spring on a friend's high mileage Frontier Scout. Yes, the music wire springs are much more durable and they find their way into all my guns as cheap insurance.