October 5, 2018, 06:45 PM | #26 |
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@Model12Win, safariland doesn't carry the 7 shot model. Trust me, I've looked.
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Once you learn how to run a mill and a lathe you won't be limited to what someone else makes.
To save time/effort,cannibalize the small parts you can from an available speed loader. Some gunsmiths remove and replace available parts. Some gunsmiths make parts that are unavailable. Developing machining skills takes time and experience. If you gain experience and confidence on your speed loader,you will have experience that will be useful if you ever work on a revolver cylinder. If you make a rookie mistake,the aluminum nubbins you scrounge from the stock rack are a lot better to start over with than a Colt,Ruger,or S+W cylinder.. It actually sounds like a good,low risk project . If you only have an X-Y manual mill,you can trig out all the locations. Or,if you have access to a dividing head with a chuck,or a rotary table,its great setup experience. If you have access to something like an EZ Trak CNC Bridgeport,its "piece of cake" canned bolt circle routines. Once you grow those skills,its a whole nuther way of looking at things. Last edited by HiBC; October 6, 2018 at 10:36 PM. |
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Thanks HiBC, I'm hoping to learn everything under the sun involving manufacturing techniques. I actually grew up around lathes and mills. My dad is the physics and engineering teacher at the hogeschool in Antwerp Belgium. I have great spacial reasoning but almost no experience on the machines other than watching my dad make high end paintball guns in teflon back in the day. I'm teaching myself Autocad atm to get a head start on cnc machining. In trinidad I'll be learning basic machining for gunsmithing but I'm also taking all of their other machining courses as well. I've got about 120lbs of block 6160 and other aluminum to practice on from my days as a sheet metal worker. Also have about 80pbs of block titanoum to play with. Haven't decided if I want to forge that or make some fancy gun parts yet. Probably both. I know titanium isn't great for most gun parts because of the work hardening and the flammability factor but titanium hammers would be cool or a ti trigger perhaps.
So far with my speedloader I've noticed that the short 38 spcl feeds much easier because of the shorter case. I've gotten better practicing with snap caps but I still yank out a round or two every once and a while. The thumb rest of my grip almost touched the cylinder when open so when I make my other grip I'm going to thin or alter that section and see if it helps with feeding. I'm making the first grip out of scarp just to get the shape right.
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Why empty non resized cases? Nvm. For extracting practice right?
Now for dummy rounds, I like snap caps because of the soft primer material that won't wear out your firing pin. I imagine the brass primer is replaced by something on the dummy rounds? The only other shooter I know in the bay area just moved out of state and my other shooting buddies pretty much use my firearms and buy me bullets. I could drill out the front of my snap caps and refill them with some scrap lead I have. I've even got some spare Tungsten laying around.
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Yes, and they are pretty, but they are still twist knob types like HKS.
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@Huntinaz, thanks I'm going to check those out. I checked them out on YouTube and they do seem to have more clearance than the bks loader.
@MrBorland, I'll try the eraser tip trick thank you.
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Just ordered the 5 star loader. It looks like it clears the grip of the revolver plenty in reviews.
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Got the 5 star. Loads like a charm and has plenty of clearance from the grip. Not too expensive either. Got it in zombie green because why not.
I'm still going to look into another firearm for competition practice but now at least I'm set for a decent home defense reload. Depending on how this does at the firing range next time I might even get the tiny block with another loader. Maybe make my own block from hardwood. We'll see.
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Awesome, glad that worked out. I have a loading block, it’s also really nice.
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I've been practicing the reload at home with dummy rounds and I'm going to my in laws's ranch in a few days so I can practice there with live ammo.
I figured I would attend a few competitions as a spectator before deciding what kind of match to shoot. I'm not very competitive by nature so actually competing is still a maybe. I like the novelty of the loading block. I'm not planning on running around with a loading block to every range and transferring whole boxes of ammo to it just to use the speedloader. I was thinking more like the little double block that holds two loaders next to the bed on the nightstand of something.
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Right, I don’t think anyone is suggesting a loading block is necessary... but that’s not a reason to not buy something
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