Handgun round count??
In a large frame revolver should round count matter? If so how much is to much? Thanks.
Todd
Todd
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Not sure of your question. One of my 29's has 40,000 full tilt rounds and is still tight and shoot just fine. Lost a star alignment pin at about 25,000, made one that I used until the replacement unit came in the mail. I have seen other that suffered from Dick Tracy snapping the cylinder closed. One had an oblong locking hole from a replacement hand that wasn't fitted properly. 0 -
IMHO good quality guns are like good quality Cars. With proper maintenance and not driven to REDLINE or +P+ loads very often they will last for many many Miles / round count.Not a revolver but I have one 45ACP target pistol that has over 300,000 rounds through it Replaced one Extractor. and replaced Barrel twice not worn bore but lockup not as tight as needed for match shooting 0 -
Depends on the quality of the firearm in question.
My Freedom Arms 454 Casull has over 20,000 rounds through it, and those were fired in the last 2 years. I used the first 1,000 rounds of factory ammo to make another 8,000 rounds on my Dillon, and those were standard "factory" loads.
The last batch I shot were 250 brand new factory ammo & 300 reloads, and that trip to the range included 2 40-shot silhouette matches, a long-range pistol match of over 100 rounds total, and some 300 rounds of trigger time refining hold, alignment and release.
I typically shoot +/- 500 rounds every 3 weeks through this particular revolver, and anticipate the gun outliving me.
On the other hand, I had a Rossi 94(?) that had shot well until I sold it to a friend.
I'd owned it for about 15 years, and shot the thing a LOT.
He had it for 2 years, until it threw the rear sight upon firing some HOT handloads (I'd warned against that very behavior with that gun) that he made, and it looked like it may have cracked the frame next to the recoil shield.
He still has it, and only shoots 38 Specials through it now.
To answer the OP; it matters when the number or power of the loads exceeds the guns' inherent strength.
If it rattles, or pieces fall off; it's a seller, not a keeper.0 -
quote:Originally posted by toad67
In a large frame revolver should round count matter? If so how much is to much? Thanks.
Todd
Guns last a LONG time, but eventually they will wear out.
With revolvers, typically the timing will go off, and some "end shake" (ie front/back play in the cylinder) occurs after tens of thousands of rounds. Of course barrels and small parts can eventually fail, too.
Exact numbers are going to depend on the gun in question, and what kind of ammo its been shot with.
The smaller snubnose revolvers don't like being beat up with full force magnum rounds over time, and will eventually shake loose or develop timing problems.
But for a QUALITY large frame revolver shot with light to medium loads. ..these will run for many tens of thousands of rounds at least.
You can probably run .38 specials through a Smith N Frame indefinitely. . .or at least for the better part of 100,000+ rounds. And .45 colts through a .450SW revolver? The gun probably doesn't even "notice" you're shooting those! Stuff like the Rugers and Freedom Arms. . .these are built like tanks and handle large volumes of even full magnum loads.
On the other hand, for "lesser" made guns and especially ones with full tilt magnum rounds, not so much. These will wear out much faster and eventually develop problems. ,357 magnums, in particular run "hot" from lots of unburned powder and tend to beat up guns. Even the original Smith N frames supposedly would wear out running large volumes of full power .44 magnums. I wouldn't trust the Spanish, South American, or lesser made German/Italian guns with large volumes of full power loads.
So to answer the question, yeah, round count "matters", but how much it matters and what's "too much" depends on what you're trying to accomplish. As a matter of practice, nobody but the most dedicated volume shooters ever put through so many rounds through their guns that this is really going to be an issue.0 -
6 seems about right. 0 -
I have just over 250,000 rounds through my 1987 production Ruger Super Redhawk, with most of them being hot silhouette loads[^] 0
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