cylinder to barrel alignment

boomer47 · Post by **boomer47** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:10 am

Many years ago, when I was on a PPC pistol team, if you had a revolver spitting lead to the side you had a couple of guys on either side of you on the range ready to start shooting at you.
The 'smith who built my PPC pistols had a cure that I'm sure is not approved by the pistol makers.
He used a center punch to move a little metal on the spur on the rear of the cylinder that the hand contacts to rotate the cylinder or filed off a tad of the same, depending on which way the cylinder needed to be moved to be lined up.
Not pretty but it worked and as bearandoldman always says the gun is just a tool, does not have to be pretty, just work.
A range rod is the best way to check it out. The 'smith said that every revolver he had ever set up had at least one chamber that was off a bit except some older Colt Pythons.
This was all over 30 years ago so a better fix may be available now.

bearandoldman · Post by **bearandoldman** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:49 am

boomer47 wrote: The 'smith who built my PPC pistols had a cure that I'm sure is not approved by the pistol makers.
He used a center punch to move a little metal on the spur on the rear of the cylinder that the hand contacts to rotate the cylinder or filed off a tad of the same, depending on which way the cylinder needed to be moved to be lined up.
Not pretty but it worked and as bearandoldman always says the gun is just a tool, does not have to be pretty, just work.
This was all over 30 years ago so a better fix may be available now.

Jack, being an old mechanic and machinist by trade, we used to say that any method that works must be the proper method. "It is not the method that counts but the result in the end" quote by this old man and Bear agrees with me so it must be gospel

boomer47 · Post by **boomer47** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 6:33 pm

Len,
You got it right. Of the hundred or so of guns I've owned and sold-traded-kept, the only one I've ever seen that I thought was perfect out of the box was a Browning 12ga. over&under made in Belgium that I bought in Spain around 1960.
I haven't seen a firearm since that could not be tweaked out a bit to improve it so that it functioned better than it did when new.
But then, that's what this forum is all about: how to tweak the Rugers and make them a better pistol.
I guess that is what keeps all the aftermarket parts makers/gunsmiths in business.
I love a beautiful gun but if it won't run right, all the time, it is just a big paperweight.