I came across the new Taurus 692 while surfing this weekend. It seems like an interesting concept to be able to swap the .357/.38 cylinder for a 9mm cylinder and shoot 9x21 in your 38/357 revolver! I think there is a Ruger Redhawk model with similar capabilities of using a 45LC cylinder or swapping a 45acp cylinder in? It also seems like I have surfed across some mentioning of accuracy issues with the Redhawk with swapable cylinders?
On my Dan Wesson revolver the docs specifically state that replacing a cylinder is a factory only operation because each cylinder is matched to the frame. I assume this is to keep the cylinder and bore as concentric as possible? I would guess that the process of timing the cylinder to the frame would be a matter of shimming cylinder stop one way or the other so the cylinder is best aligned with the bore?
If the cylinder timing is accomplished with shimming the the cylinder stop it would seem that the alignment is accomplished in the frame and not by milling "tweaking" the cylinder? Which would leave me to conclude that any frame could only practically be timed to a single cylinder unless great care was taken to machine the cylinder stop notches in two cylinders to line up near perfectly?
Am I correct in extrapolating that "a" big difference between a high end revolver and a middle of the road revolver is how precisely the revolver is timed? Am I correct to assume that a Taurus is timed to a precision of "won't blow up in your face" where my Dan Wesson is timed to a precision of a high degree of accuracy to maximize the repeat-ability of where the bullet impacts the paper? This would also lead me to conclude that there is room for accuracy improvement in most budget revolvers?
I am a semi-auto guy and kind of new to the world of precision revolvers so please excuse my ignorance.
On my Dan Wesson revolver the docs specifically state that replacing a cylinder is a factory only operation because each cylinder is matched to the frame. I assume this is to keep the cylinder and bore as concentric as possible? I would guess that the process of timing the cylinder to the frame would be a matter of shimming cylinder stop one way or the other so the cylinder is best aligned with the bore?
If the cylinder timing is accomplished with shimming the the cylinder stop it would seem that the alignment is accomplished in the frame and not by milling "tweaking" the cylinder? Which would leave me to conclude that any frame could only practically be timed to a single cylinder unless great care was taken to machine the cylinder stop notches in two cylinders to line up near perfectly?
Am I correct in extrapolating that "a" big difference between a high end revolver and a middle of the road revolver is how precisely the revolver is timed? Am I correct to assume that a Taurus is timed to a precision of "won't blow up in your face" where my Dan Wesson is timed to a precision of a high degree of accuracy to maximize the repeat-ability of where the bullet impacts the paper? This would also lead me to conclude that there is room for accuracy improvement in most budget revolvers?
I am a semi-auto guy and kind of new to the world of precision revolvers so please excuse my ignorance.
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