Round count cont............
I had a like new Smith .44 mag (629 6") and I had it for a couple of years. Decided I wanted a 4" and put my gun on the block.
Guy looks at it (had it on consignment in a shop) and loudly exclaims the gun has had the "crap shot out of it". I was actually working then and asked how he knew that to be true?
He said by the flame cut of the top strap.
I said that can happen in a box or two, depending on what ammo was used.
He flat out called me a liar.
I then told him it was my friggin' gun, that I shoot 180gr bullets on 31.5 gr of ww296. I aksed if he shot ball powder light bullet .44 magnums and his answer was "no".
AA#9 or H110, same dayam thing. It makes a mark (big whoopie do) and it only gets so deep. Continued usage will erode the forcing cone........my bud wore his out on his original 29 w 6.5" bbl...........but I bet he had, no kidding, 10K rounds through it, most comparably hot ball powder light bullet loads.
BTW, my forcing cone was fine.
So what one thinks is high wear, might not be, and such evidence may be the result of a low round count and fool the unknowing (or all knowing) into thinking it's something else.
No, he didn't buy the gun.........and he didn't apologize for calling me a liar when he was in complete error (the gun had no mark on topstrap when I got it, but it was there after 100 rounds of my handloads). And I didn't shoot it much past that "round count".
I had a like new Smith .44 mag (629 6") and I had it for a couple of years. Decided I wanted a 4" and put my gun on the block.
Guy looks at it (had it on consignment in a shop) and loudly exclaims the gun has had the "crap shot out of it". I was actually working then and asked how he knew that to be true?
He said by the flame cut of the top strap.
I said that can happen in a box or two, depending on what ammo was used.
He flat out called me a liar.
I then told him it was my friggin' gun, that I shoot 180gr bullets on 31.5 gr of ww296. I aksed if he shot ball powder light bullet .44 magnums and his answer was "no".
AA#9 or H110, same dayam thing. It makes a mark (big whoopie do) and it only gets so deep. Continued usage will erode the forcing cone........my bud wore his out on his original 29 w 6.5" bbl...........but I bet he had, no kidding, 10K rounds through it, most comparably hot ball powder light bullet loads.
BTW, my forcing cone was fine.
So what one thinks is high wear, might not be, and such evidence may be the result of a low round count and fool the unknowing (or all knowing) into thinking it's something else.
No, he didn't buy the gun.........and he didn't apologize for calling me a liar when he was in complete error (the gun had no mark on topstrap when I got it, but it was there after 100 rounds of my handloads). And I didn't shoot it much past that "round count".