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Pietta 58 remmie cylinder timing

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D Sanders

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I have a Pietta 58 remmie that has a very slight chamber/bore alignment issue. It appears that each chamber is out of center by just a few thousandths of an inch on rotation. All six equally in the same direction. The lock up is great, but I would like to get the Chambers to center the bore better. Can this be fixed easily? If so, how?

Hh 60
 
Check with the guys over at the 1858 forum and Colt Country. Both have a wealth of information regarding timing. Gunslingers Gulch is a great resource also, but be fore warned, they can be a bit rough around the edges. Maybe that's why I fit in so well there.
 
A new bolt will have to be fit and the hand adjusted to correct this. The window through the frame may also need to be worked over.
If the revolver does not spit and slight misalignment is consistent in all chambers than I would leave it alone.
Actually I learned years ago from actual tests that some misalignment can still produce a remarkable accurate revolver. Go figure.
Of course perfect alignment is both desired and in theory necessary but very often the effects are negated by other physical advantage attributes of the gun that compensate like a good forcing cone geometry and a level barrel both in groove and land.
Almost no production revolvers have perfect alignment as line boring is necessary usually to produce this and yet most production revolvers will out shoot what their owners can hold for.
I should also point out that misalignment is a separate issue from timing.
 
Thanks for the input. I think I may just leave it alone. I'm just going use as a shooter anyway. Not going for the gold.
 
M.D. brought one very important point. Shoot it first. No sense fixing something that isn't broken.
 
It must be remembered that revolver chambers can be out of alignment vertically as well as on the lateral of an arch although the later is more prevalent. Fitting an over size arbor, base pin or sleeving the cylinder can help here.
Also it is very common on open frame guns that the barrel is pitched up a fraction of a degree from wedge pressure because it is off set, not on center line and coaxial with the bore.
One can generally see this when the barrel cylinder gap is held up to the light. The gap at the top will usually be a bit tighter.
Actually what I surmise is happening to aid accuracy in open frame guns is that they flex enough so that when the ball or bullet hits the forcing cone the inertia of the projectile more or less straightens things out aligning all the parts, more or less than they were at battery.
I believe the same is true to a lessor extent in solid frame guns.
 

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