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[Garbear34]

I love my Ruger Old Army. Great choice

 

[45D]

Kaido is Estonian not Japanese! Lol!! ( too funny)
He designed some excellent conicals for hunting with '60s, Dragoons, Walkers and ROA's.

Mike

 

[Ninering62]

Kaido is Estonian not Japanese! Lol!! ( too funny)
He designed some excellent conicals for hunting with '60s, Dragoons, Walkers and ROA's.

Mike

Thanks for correcting my ethnicity mistake & that you found humor in it too, is pretty cool. I just love the dudes bullets in my ROA thats for sure.

 

[Boston Bill]

As most ROA owners may know a word of caution on the loading lever arrangement. It’s easy to have the cross bolt screw that locks the base pin in the wrong position and bend said base pin when it backs out while ramming a ball or bullet into the chamber. I’ve done it, fortunately it’s east to straighten as it bends right at the indent.
Base pins are available from Belt Mountain.

I got the Powder Inc or Powder Valley reloader. I reload all my c and b revolvers on it. Don’t have to worry about anything breaking!

 

[Boston Bill]

I own a copy of all the basic civil war era pistols, the biggest flaw of the Remingtons is the flush, bushing less cylinder against the forcing cone mouth.. The smooth base pin of small diameter is prone to fouling created by the cylinder gap blow by. Depending on powder type and charge amount this fouling can become problematic after a cylinder or two. Colts aren’t as effected as the arbor (base pin) was designed to allow the fouling to collect in recessed areas of the arbor.
Rogers and Spencer’s added a bushing on the cylinder that diverted the gases around the base pin, Ruger incorporated that design into the ROA.

I’ve heard that some comptention shooter will have a gunsmith fit a bushing to the cylinder face then machine the frame face to accept the bushing.

Trivia information I guess, I simply dismount the cylinder on my Remington 36’s and 44’s and wipe the base pin when it’s starts to bind.

And this is why I like Colt pattern better than Remington for holy black. The Remingtons get the conversion cylinders.

 

[Snake Pleskin]

I am a Remington fan. I love the ease in changing a cylinder. No banging wedges or lining it up. I have been told some people have had rings engraved by a smith around the arbor to allow fouling someplace to go, and also the part about having a bushing installed in their cylinder. I have not done either, but then I do not shoot hundreds of rounds. I pop out the cylinders and clean and load them in a cylinder block w rammer made to hold them. you can find them on line lots of places. Just one mans opinion