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Hey gang!
I've got a travel trailer that I keep on land I own. It's very nice, but only heated or air conditioned when I use a generator. I haven't done that much, if at all, over more than a year. That means it's a lot like a car: hot in the day, cold at night, etc.
Anyway, I was up there today running some smoke through my Walker, and wound up rummaging around looking for something else when I stumbled across a Pietta Remington NA Sheriff's revolver that I got in a trade. I'd loaded it and forgot about it, and it's been in this non-climate controlled trailer since then! (I know. Irresponsible of me. Still...)
It looked good, so I decided to pop off the caps before driving out the balls and cleaning it up. Every single round went off perfectly, and even made a pretty good pattern at 25 yards! I mean as perfectly as if I'd just loaded it.
And this is after a year of hot South Carolina summer days, cold winter nights, extreme expansion & contraction, etc. It still performed flawlessly! I ran another couple of cylinders just for fun. (And fun it was!)
So... I sure don't plan to (intentionally) keep 'em this way or anything, but I was definitely impressed. Makes me wonder about Wild Bill's penchant for reloading each morning, and why other C & B revolvers failed to go off. It's never happened to me.
So what do y'all think? I'm interested in your opinions.
Thanks!
I've got a travel trailer that I keep on land I own. It's very nice, but only heated or air conditioned when I use a generator. I haven't done that much, if at all, over more than a year. That means it's a lot like a car: hot in the day, cold at night, etc.
Anyway, I was up there today running some smoke through my Walker, and wound up rummaging around looking for something else when I stumbled across a Pietta Remington NA Sheriff's revolver that I got in a trade. I'd loaded it and forgot about it, and it's been in this non-climate controlled trailer since then! (I know. Irresponsible of me. Still...)
It looked good, so I decided to pop off the caps before driving out the balls and cleaning it up. Every single round went off perfectly, and even made a pretty good pattern at 25 yards! I mean as perfectly as if I'd just loaded it.
And this is after a year of hot South Carolina summer days, cold winter nights, extreme expansion & contraction, etc. It still performed flawlessly! I ran another couple of cylinders just for fun. (And fun it was!)
So... I sure don't plan to (intentionally) keep 'em this way or anything, but I was definitely impressed. Makes me wonder about Wild Bill's penchant for reloading each morning, and why other C & B revolvers failed to go off. It's never happened to me.
So what do y'all think? I'm interested in your opinions.
Thanks!