Aguila Blanca
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44 AMP said:Did do a bit of "research" and found some people who had been gunsmiths /shop owners back in the day, and heard from them that Colt had chamber mouth issues in (some of) their SAA .45s when they resumed production after WWII and it continued for a while in the 50s.
Seems that back then, when there was an issue, the usual thing wasn't to ream the cylinder, but to shoot differently sized bullets. A typical example, was a guy bringing in a gun that wouldn't shoot well (shooting .452" bullets) and the smith telling him to shoot .454" and the gun turning out to be quite accurate with them. Different times it seems....
But the Ruger problem isn't (or wasn't, if they have actually fixed it by now) "wrong" size cylinder throats, it was different size throats on each of the holes in the same cylinder.