BCRider
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First off it's nice to have THR back up and running. I was darn near going through withdrawal symptoms...
OK, now the bad news I found yesterday. I had my SBH out for some load development aimed at going for some really accurate loadings. But the groups I was getting were anything but impressive. Like easily double what I've done with other guns.
Back at home this morning on a whim I checked the chamber throat sizes only to find a real nasty situation. Three of the throats checked at 0.423 and the other three at 0.432. So three let the bullets simply slide through and the other three need it forced through with a hammer. Oddly enough the sizes were alternating around the cylinder.
Needless to say any chances of getting accurate and consistent groups were shot to hell.
Being in Canada it's no good telling me to ship it off to Ruger. I've got emails out to a couple of Canadian outfits that are listed on the Ruger website as being their agents up this way. I guess we'll see if the Ruger Reputation for servicing stuff like this with a smile and good results works up here as well.
Oh, and since I've also got a Super Redhawk AND a Redhawk in .44Mag I checked the throats. All 6 on both these others are 0.432 give or take a needle's worth on my dial calipers. So it seems like even if I run into servicing issues with the Canadian outfits that the present cylinder is salvagable with some reaming out to size the small throats.
Still, it really makes me wonder how it got out of the factory like that.
OK, now the bad news I found yesterday. I had my SBH out for some load development aimed at going for some really accurate loadings. But the groups I was getting were anything but impressive. Like easily double what I've done with other guns.
Back at home this morning on a whim I checked the chamber throat sizes only to find a real nasty situation. Three of the throats checked at 0.423 and the other three at 0.432. So three let the bullets simply slide through and the other three need it forced through with a hammer. Oddly enough the sizes were alternating around the cylinder.
Needless to say any chances of getting accurate and consistent groups were shot to hell.
Being in Canada it's no good telling me to ship it off to Ruger. I've got emails out to a couple of Canadian outfits that are listed on the Ruger website as being their agents up this way. I guess we'll see if the Ruger Reputation for servicing stuff like this with a smile and good results works up here as well.
Oh, and since I've also got a Super Redhawk AND a Redhawk in .44Mag I checked the throats. All 6 on both these others are 0.432 give or take a needle's worth on my dial calipers. So it seems like even if I run into servicing issues with the Canadian outfits that the present cylinder is salvagable with some reaming out to size the small throats.
Still, it really makes me wonder how it got out of the factory like that.