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Offline Kmrere42

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Forcing cone angles
« on: May 06, 2009, 09:38:11 AM »
Hi,


Simple question I think,

Are forcing cone angles measured by total angle or per side. I want to make up a tool to clean and polish my ruger and a Uberti.

I believe Rugers cone is 18 Degree's but I am not sure of the Uberti.



Paul

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Offline Roper1952

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Re: Forcing cone angles
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2009, 02:41:04 PM »
I'm not sure how it's measured, but 8 degrees is optimal for jacketed bullets, 11 degrees is optimal for lead.
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Re: Forcing cone angles
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2009, 06:12:27 PM »
kill 2 birds with one stone and firelap it instead.  You will smooth the forcing cone and the barrel at the same time.
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Re: Forcing cone angles
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2009, 05:08:44 AM »
All mine are cut to 11 degrees.  Brownell's sells the tools, simple to do.  I hardly ever shoot jacketed bullets but 11 degrees seems to work well with them too.
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Re: Forcing cone angles
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2009, 06:59:12 AM »
In the past I cut my .44s and .45 to 11 degrees, and my .357s to 5 degrees. I now cut everything to 5 degrees.
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