Ah Ha! I have just graduated from the School of Redneck Gunsmithery!

An old but NIB Armenius revolver now in my posession has a .22 RF cylinder and one chambered in .22 WMR. Some Heine stamped the company logo atop one of the chambers and the impression carried thru the chamber wall, thus impacting the chamber major diameter and rendering it unuseable. Not to be outdone by this craftsmanship I whipped out a 1/4" brass rod, chucked it in the DeWalt and turned it down(sumbitch file) to the chamber minor diameter for the length required. I then notched the ends slightly at 90* intervals, dipped it in some JB bore paste and commenced it to spinnin' at low RPM. The prep took longer than the cure, about 3 minutes of lapping and presto chango!, #6 is now serviceable. I never understood the idea of having two cylinders for cartridges that use different diameter bullets meant for a single gun. Did they think that would work?

Another bad day for crats is looming. Never shot one with a .22 Mag 6-shooter.

Dan

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Danny boy, the difference is only like 2 thou, and both use soft lead boolits.

I know somebody with a Colt SA .22 with both RF and WMR cylinders...


HTRN

Yes, I know the difference of scant thou seems but a minor point but I've not heard of one that shoots much better that minute of beer truck with the LR cylinder. Stand by for a report on this example of German craftsmanship!

Dan

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It's set up to shoot the 22 mags, so the 22lr's are a little to small for the bore ! But who care's at 10 feet ! I would just shoot the mags in it... By the way try thr Win Supreame's 34 gr'rs

Hey Double D: Whats the deal with the convretable? Got a Ruger Single Six that I sent back to have a Mag cylinder fitted to. The cats didn't know about the switcharoo. Mostly shoot snake shot at 5 feet. CB caps work good at not pissing the neighbors off too. Shorts at "real" close range. If Ruger did it, I figured it would be OK! Accurate? MOC with no problem. Am I missing something??

Nor Cal, naw, you're not. I tend to be anal about small deTAILS, bein' a rifleman by nature. I know they shoot, some better than others. Now I once dusted a smallish hog with an old Remmy pump gun using CB Shorts at about 40 yards. Long whack that one was, but it sported a Loooopold M8-4X for my viewing pleasure and is a M.O.Crateye out to 50 anyhoo. Soooo, long story shortened somewhat, I don't even know how it'll shoot until I try it. Will report soonest.

On the subject of obturation, it is commonly done to cast bullets a wee bit small for black powder shooting, both to assist in reloading and due to the obturation normally attributed to lead when booted in the butt with BP. Well, the reloading/fouling issue is valid in my eye, but I question the BP/Obturation thing as being the sole domain of Black and lead. One thing sure as green apples, my Paper Patch .44 Mag loads sure as bejeezus obturate and that's using Li'l Gun.

Now I only brought the subject up because of the issues of obturation and lead, given the gun at hand. I dunno what the throat size is on the cylinder(.22LR), but if I assume(I do) that it is appropriate to the .22 LR and that .22LR pressures are marginal for obturating lead alloy(they are), it is questionable whether or not they will fill the bore after passing the forcing cone(damn near guarantee they won't) as revolver peak pressures terminate at the cylinder gap. That leaves accuracy in the hands of .224 grooves and smaller lands, so who knows what will happen? Mebbe it will hold MO-Crat, mebbe not. Truth is it doesn't matter to me, as I intend to follow the suggestion above regarding choice of cylinders, ie. all serious use will enTAIL the Mag. chambering. I will try something novel however, and see how the LR cylinder likes BB Caps. I have several boxes of the odd little things.

Never said I didn't know anything about 'em...*


*My apologies to Matt Quigley.


Dan

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Quick Draw McGrar is the handle of a young lady at BO,who by the way, got her buck this past week! derf

Well, my Dad's early '70s vintage Ruger Single Six with the switch cylinders shoots pretty dang good...he routinely dispatches crats/skunks/coons at 30+ paces with CCI LR ammo.

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You may wish to check out Paco Kelly's writings on this topic: one mag chamber in a lr revolver. For close work where a bit more power is needed use the mag chamber. Thats the concept. Be watchful with that arminus. The one I had had a steel cylinder allright but a potmetal frame and didn't last long with lr high speed cartridges.