I have a Taylor's Smokewagon 45 Colt SAA revolver I recently purchased. I have put just over 100 rounds of reloads through it and love it. Well built, accurate.
The issue I'm having is when firing a round, a reasonable amt. of flames comes out from the cylinder gap. I'm curious why.
Some specifics include:
Cylinder gap - .0015" feeler goes in gap. .0025" won't. So cylinder gap is ~ .002" which doesn't seem to be too wide
Load - Hytech coated 250 RNFP Acme bullets. 6.9 gr. of HP-38 powder. CCI primers, Winchester cases (new).
I haven't noticed any unburnt powder flakes in cylinders (a friends Uberti used to not burn all it's powder, but it was a slower pistol powder than HP-38).
Just curious why the cool flames. My other revolvers I load for don't put on quite the same show. They are a Ruger SuperBlackhawk (load 44 Spcl level loads), GP-100 (.38 loads) and LCR (.38 loads). Thanks!
The issue I'm having is when firing a round, a reasonable amt. of flames comes out from the cylinder gap. I'm curious why.
Some specifics include:
Cylinder gap - .0015" feeler goes in gap. .0025" won't. So cylinder gap is ~ .002" which doesn't seem to be too wide
Load - Hytech coated 250 RNFP Acme bullets. 6.9 gr. of HP-38 powder. CCI primers, Winchester cases (new).
I haven't noticed any unburnt powder flakes in cylinders (a friends Uberti used to not burn all it's powder, but it was a slower pistol powder than HP-38).
Just curious why the cool flames. My other revolvers I load for don't put on quite the same show. They are a Ruger SuperBlackhawk (load 44 Spcl level loads), GP-100 (.38 loads) and LCR (.38 loads). Thanks!
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