Cylinder Rotation Marks

[flabbydan]

Is there any way to prevent rotation marks on a revolver cylinder?

[TScottO]

Nope.

Some guns that have had a professional action job are timed a little better where the cylinder stop seems not to come up as soon but it still marks the cylinder. I’ve also seen a few guns with action jobs that have a high polish ring around the cylinder stop notches but you can still see where the stop drags on the cylinder. Those drag marks just add character.

Be Safe,
Scott

[flabbydan]

I thought that maybe it had something to do with how smoothly you squeeze the trigger.  I'm glad to hear that it's normal.  Thanks!

[unspellable]

On most revolvers you can put a very small radius on the edges of the bolt's upper end.  Then you don't have a sharp edge dragging on the cylinder.

On most revolvers the bolt comes up early before it gets to the notch lead in.  This saves the manufacturer the trouble of actually timing the bolt.  On a S&W getting the bolt properly timed requires a longer trigger nose whch has to be built up by TIG welding.  I haven't looked into what this would take on other makes.

You will get a song and dance about how an early bolt prevents skipping but I'm inclined to view it as a non-problem unless you are doing a lot of speed shooting.

[redhawk44]

I think that if you had the locking bolt teflon coated and then removed the teflon from the sides, so that it would still go into the notches on the cylinder OK, that would leave teflon on the end that rubs on the cylinder and would help a lot.

However, I never considered that little line on the cylinder to be any more important than the little lines that have developed, over the years, on my wife's face. :lol:

She has them, I have them, why would I worry about my revolver?

[Dr64]

I have the same "Drag Marks" on my Custom Conversion Ruger Redhawk in 454 Casull, the gun is Hard Chromed but still shows the Drag Marks.

I am thinking about having Mag-na-port do what they call Pin-Striping on the cylinder around the area that the drag marks are.  I am hoping that it will cover the marks and being smooth prevent new ones from showing up.

Here is a pic I stole from Mag-na-ports page you can see the Pin-Striping around the muzzle.



Just anothr idea for you


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