We were out shooting last weekend and I had the .45 ACP cylinder in the Convertible. For those unaware, the ACP cylinder headspaces the cases on the case mouth just like a semi-automatic. Anyway, I had loaded up some .45 Supers using 250 gr RNFP's and was testing them out and apparently one of them was a little "long" and did not seat on the case mouth but slightly up the ogive of the hardcast bullet as I was rotating the cylinder around loading it. Well, it got STUCK on the long cartridge and would not rotate.
I tried and tried to get it to rotate and no go. In the process of trying to rotate the cylinder in my frustration I turned it counter-clockwise...
My question: Blackhawk cylinders only turn one direction... clockwise. What did I break? When I spin the cylinder now (I did get the long cartridge out) it sounds and feels rough. It still spins freely though, but it will turn counter-clockwise now...
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Yes, in fact I do have a 454... in more ways than one.
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