Colt Peacemaker known issues?

[Sniper Pete]

If it is a potential problem with pellet skirt/seating, you may want to ask the gunsmith what pellets were used to test fire it before they returned it to you....which ones pass their test.

Skirt diameters vary, I remember measuring up Geco and Hobby in the past, I put the numbers on here somewhere; think Geco were slightly smaller. A smaller pellet might not necessarily help if the cartridges vary too (e.g. too loose fit). Zippy seems to have found the answer with a pellet seater.

Hi Aimstraight,

I use Bisley Practice in all my pistols and Webley Accupell in the revolvers. I have experimented with (many) others and overall these were above average for performance. I usually buy 10 tins (of 500) at a time. Get a bit of discount doing this with some sellers.

I dont use a pellet seater - but I use a biro cap , which seats them exactly at the correct depth in the magazine (or shell if using revolvers). This also irons out any (slight) variation in skirt shape. Any pellet too damaged or misformed gets chucked away.

I also now wash and lubricate all my pellets. I used to take the p**s out of people doing so, but it DOES improve performance. I even sometimes WEIGH pellets and sort them into batches by weight. That REALLY brings pellets into good target groupings, but I only do so occasionally. If I were competing then I'd always weigh first. It's quite time consuming and pretty boring doing so.
These days I plink cans and have a variety of targets types, and I'm purely a back garden shooter now.