Thread: Mod 625 convert to 45 long colt?
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Old 02-16-2017, 04:05 PM
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Originally Posted by steelslaver View Post
Get a 629 cylinder and have it reamed. I have a bunch of 45 colt conversions and all my cylinders started out as 44 mag cylinders. Way easier to come buy. Right now I have a 25-5 in the shop and I am junking the original 45 colt cylinder and replacing it with a reamed 44 mag cylinder. Original cylinder had huge throats as per most early ones did.
I was lucky. I bought a new 4" blue M25-5 in June 1980 and it won't pass a .451" jacketed bullet through the chambers without a bit of pressure.
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