New Python or 686 for Class (Page 2 of 2)
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Originally Posted By pokey074: Honest question: have you ever actually shot a revolver before? I will routinely shoot a minimum of 100 rounds of .38 Special in an outing (that's over 16 cylinders full) without any cleaning or brushing and zero problems. Yea, same. I've easily shot a couple hundred rounds out of a single revolver in a range session without any maintenance. Yea, it was dirty when I was done. So are autos. I suppose if you are shooting a very dirty (not efficient) load that leaves a lot of unburnt powder you could surely have an issue. That's something that you can fix with proper component selection. |
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Originally Posted By compuvette: Yea, same. I've easily shot a couple hundred rounds out of a single revolver in a range session without any maintenance. Yea, it was dirty when I was done. So are autos. I suppose if you are shooting a very dirty (not efficient) load that leaves a lot of unburnt powder you could surely have an issue. That's something that you can fix with proper component selection. Originally Posted By compuvette: Originally Posted By pokey074: Honest question: have you ever actually shot a revolver before? I will routinely shoot a minimum of 100 rounds of .38 Special in an outing (that's over 16 cylinders full) without any cleaning or brushing and zero problems. Yea, same. I've easily shot a couple hundred rounds out of a single revolver in a range session without any maintenance. Yea, it was dirty when I was done. So are autos. I suppose if you are shooting a very dirty (not efficient) load that leaves a lot of unburnt powder you could surely have an issue. That's something that you can fix with proper component selection. And also proper reloads. Slap the ejector rod with the muzzle pointing straight up and all the carbon and unburnt powder won't het stuck under the ejecter. |
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That sounds like a fun class. I'm happy to hear you enjoyed 1000 rounds of round gun fun. I competed with 625's and (occasionally 686's) for over 5 years. I think I had one stoppage in over 20K rounds (crap under the star) and I frequently did not clean the gun for 500 rounds at a time. Now a .22 revolver is a totally different animal. Both my Diamondback and 622 need the chambers cleaned between 150 and 200 rounds or they will not load correctly. |
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Originally Posted By dobie: 0. 0 for both questions. Not one gun “went down” and while I can’t speak for the other students, I did not clean my 686 overnight. I had not one issue or malfunction that was not attributed to myself bumbling around with something I didn’t have much practice with. The only issue that was prevalent was the guy shooting a 686+ 7 round gun. He consistently had issues with speed reloading from multiple HKS reloaders. He tried my 6 shot gun and loaders…no issue. His 7 round cylinder just didn’t like reloading under stress. Could definitely be operator error…but it was enough that all of the rest of us were glad to only have 6 rounds to deal with. My 7 shot is a pain to reload with the 7 shot hks loaders Once any amount of lint gets in it they simply are tough getting all the rounds out |
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