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From the pic., it looks like the middle of the cylinder is snug on the frame notch.
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The barrel looks like it's bent downward.
Is the arbor bent or is it my monitor screen?
I wonder if the .44 brasser's cylinders were loaded off of the frame if that would save their arbors from having too much pressure exerted on them during loading?
Maybe then the frames/arbors would last longer.
If so the important question to answer then becomes which puts more stress on the brass frame, loading or shooting?
Or if the .44 brassers were loaded on the frame with the minimum size .451 balls, the stress on the loading lever and arbor might be lessened enough to save it from some of the accumulated damage from repeated loading stress?
Even shooting higher charges of a lower velocity powder like APP might help to reduce some of the frame stress while still allowing larger charges to be enjoyed. And it's not that APP is such a weaker powder when fired from rifle length barrels, but it could just be that it only shoots somewhat softer from revolver length barrels.
Too bad that it's so difficult to objectively measure the relative recoil of different powders and loads out of a brasser, and also the amount of force being exerted during ramming different sizes & types of projectiles.
