Did the Accuracy & Power tests on both my SAA's (hmmm)

[Geezer]

Marc,

This used to happen with the old (now banned) Brocock guns.

Each cartridge varies in tolerances. So you'd end up with a little pile of good ones, a little pile of not so good ones, and a little pile of ones that didn't work at all. Then you'd rebuild the not good ones and the not working ones and test again, and put them in new little piles.

If you were me, at some point you would say "sod this" and shoot something more reliable.

At least for the SAA, cartridges are currently plentiful and fairly cheap. So a big pile of good ones shouldn't be too hard to acquire.

I imagine this also affects the MkVI, Nagant, Dan Wesson, Python, etc. Interested to hear if it does.

[jassi]

Marc,

This used to happen with the old (now banned) Brocock guns.

Each cartridge varies in tolerances. So you'd end up with a little pile of good ones, a little pile of not so good ones, and a little pile of ones that didn't work at all. Then you'd rebuild the not good ones and the not working ones and test again, and put them in new little piles.

If you were me, at some point you would say "sod this" and shoot something more reliable.

At least for the SAA, cartridges are currently plentiful and fairly cheap. So a big pile of good ones shouldn't be too hard to acquire.

I imagine this also affects the MkVI, Nagant, Dan Wesson, Python, etc. Interested to hear if it does.

I noticed years ago that the bores in the DW cylinder varied slightly and that one was always slightly undersized compared with the others. While the difference was small, it might go some way to explaining flyers, particularly if an oversize bore coincided with an undersize cartridge.

The Webley shows the same variability, though I haven't checked the SAA