Hi, Wildalaska,
I am sure the guns are accurate and can be worked over to much higher standards than the military models.
But I remember a story from back in the 1960's. The Russian pistol team (not sure it was the Olympics, but it was some international competition) showed up with Nagants and made a great show of practicing with them. The Americans relaxed, feeling that the Russians would not be much competition.
On match day, the Russians showed up, opened their shooting boxes, and hauled out S&W K-38's. The cleaned the Americans' clock. Which goes to show that 1) maybe the Nagant is not that great as a compeition revolver and 2) he who gets overconfident is in trouble.
Hi, Thomme,
I have little doubt that the conversion cylinders are better steel than the originals, but the .32 H&R goes some 5000 psi over the Nagant cartridge, so there is some cause for concern. But, the .32 ACP is in the same pressure range as the .32 H&R, so whatever goes for one should be true of the other.
FWIW, I have fired a limited number of .32 H&R Magnum rounds in a Nagant with the conversion cylinder, and had no problems.
Jim