This is a pretty tame example of what was said when I first posted about reaming 17/617/18 chambers. This was one of the "nice" threads, it got pretty nasty.

There was no shortage of, "I"ve been doing this for XX number of yrs and know better, they don't need it", "you're going to ruin your gun hogging out the chambers" etc along with many mickey mouse alternative polishing schemes.

Funny how things change.

Reaming the chambers is one of the best thing you can do for your S&W 22 LR revolver.

Thanks to chief38 for resurrecting this thread.