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mykeal · January 23, 2011, 05:03 PM

I think you're going to be waiting for a long time; I rather doubt that breed made the simple modification he claimed. I know of no conversion cylinder made with offset chambers such as would be required to line the cartridge primers up with the offset firing pin in the percussion version of the 1873 Colt. Simply filing off part of the offset pin will have no effect on moving the pin back to the battery centerline.

January 23, 2011, 05:03 PM	#24
mykeal Senior Member Join Date: October 8, 2006 Location: Northern Michigan Posts: 2,772	I think you're going to be waiting for a long time; I rather doubt that breed made the simple modification he claimed. I know of no conversion cylinder made with offset chambers such as would be required to line the cartridge primers up with the offset firing pin in the percussion version of the 1873 Colt. Simply filing off part of the offset pin will have no effect on moving the pin back to the battery centerline.