Recent content by wannabe

I think it's time I contact Smith & Wesson and see what they can do. Thanks for the help everyone.

Well... I'm starting to think it's a gun problem. I went out last night and shot 5 rounds using Missouri 158 SWC with a brinell rating of 18 and 3.3 Titegroup (instead of the softer Zero swagged bullets) and every shot gave me lead on the outside of the cylinder. I shoot these same bullets in...

I have a model 14 that I wanted to shoot 158gr bullets in. The pistol I have was a safe queen and these are the first shots through it as far as I can tell. I loaded up three groups of 10 rounds each. First 10 rounds were Zero 158 gr LRN with 3.6 Titegroup. After I shot those I brought the...

Which of the model 14's were single action only. Thanks in advance.

Problem Solved! I measured the openings in my two magazines. Mag 1 front .370 rear .330-.338 Mag 2 front .363 rear .227-.339 I set the front of the mags into .356 just as Andy had said in the above post, and I could immediately see where the problem was. I didn't have...

I should have mentioned earlier that I have a frame mount base for the scope. Nothing touches the slide. I did tighten the bushing up as much as I could. I will check that tomorrow, and test again. Thanks everyone for the help so far.

I just went out and tried 3.1 bullseye. I shot 10 rounds with no problems then came in an loaded another 10. The second round failed to chamber. I now see they're getting hung up where the rim of the case would stop. Here's the pictures of the jam.

I tried 2.7, 2.8 and 2.9 charge. I didn't shoot the pistol before I mounted the scope, and this is my first 52.

Jams = Failure to feed next round. The problem happens with either magazines (metal followers) Seems like one out of ten will not feed, no particular round. Could be the second or the last. The case mouth hits high instead of going into the chamber.

I recently purchase a model 52-2 that looks like it's never been fired. I attached a frame mount and a Ultradot scope and I'm trying to get ready for shooting Bullseye matches. The pistol came with two magazines that show no bluing wear. The pistol jams about 10 percent of the time. My load...