Since "correct" Nagant ammo is so expensive, I bought a bag of RP .32-20 cases and loaded up a hundred rounds, stepped out to the bench, dropped seven of 'em into the cylinder, c0cked the hammer... well tried to c0ck the hammer... WTH...? I couldn't get it to come to full-c0ck for some reason. A little investigation showed that the rims of the RP cases were a tad too thick and the cylinder couldn't cam all the way forward into the firing position. After a little thought, I finally figured out an easy way to trim .005" off the forward end of the rim. (Ya can't just trim a few thousandths off the head, or the primers might stick out a tad and then become a candidate for sympathetic detonation) I chucked the loaded rounds in a drill press, tightened the chuck hand tight, turned it on, then placed a hacksaw blade against the side of the case with the teeth facing down toward the rim. Fast & easy and it only took about 40 minutes to do all 100 cases. Maybe WW or Starline cases have slightly thinner rims, or maybe it's just my revolver that is a little tighter than it should be, but I never read of this problem when researching using .32-20 cases in the Nagant revolver.
(Test - cock c0ck)
