A collection of posts often on colt E- and I-frame revolvers: pythons, model 357s, officer model specials, etc. Topics not limited to: action jobs, fixing Bubba-gone-wrong gunsmith mistakes, and revolver porn. And sometimes I'll wander off the reservation and type random nouns and verbs that have nothing to do with our sole purpose, because who the hell can really pay attention that long?

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Hope for anacondas, king cobras, and trooper MKIIIs that have heavy actions.

Lighter springs can be bought here.

Unfortunately, if that doesn't solve the problem, about the only thing you can do is send to colt or cylinder and slide and wait.

The problem with these guns (all the revolvers Colt made after they stopped w/ v-spring actions) is that they are made from sintered metal --- you can't really polish or alter any parts w/o ruining them. As a result, there's not a whole lot you can do to the action other than swap springs.

With that said, if you send your gun to Colt or Cylinder and Slide they might actually be able to improve things beyond what you can get by just spring swapping. The trick they can play is that while you can't modify a given part to improve the action you can do "bin fitting" to improve the action. Bin fitting = you have hundreds of copies of the same part, and manufacturing differences will be such that some will fit better or worse together. You can swap parts in and out until you get a better result. Both Colt and C&S are the only places I know of that have enough parts to do this. (I'd be happy to be wrong though!)

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