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Old June 26, 2012, 07:04 PM   #21
B.L.E.
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I love Treso's ROA nipples. They have a thinner squish zone so the hammer puts more pressure on the priming compound and the smaller flashhole means less powder fouling on the hammer and hammer channel.
On these guns, if too much fouling builds up in the slot the hammer falls through, it slows down the hammer blow enough to cause misfires.

Reduced tension springs are popular with the SASS shooters who want to be able to cycle the action as fast as possible. A lot of them cut coils off the spring to achieve this, if overdone, you get a revolver that only functions with the softest primers.
It sounds like that Wolff spring is a reduced tension spring meant for these guys.

The Ruger hammer spring is kind of marginal in my opinion. If the gun is clean and the caps are fully seated on the nipples, it fires reliably but a little fouling in the hammer port and caps not fully seated and you get failures to fire. Also make sure you hold the revolver in a way that does not have your thumb rubbing on the hammer. That can reduce the hammer blow enough to give you a failure to fire.
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