Pearce Brothers

Dump1567 · May 26, 2025

I just found this channel on You Tube. Brian Pearce of gun writing fame and his sons discuss guns. In this episode they discuss the use of metal jacket bullets in older S&W's, and how they accelerated wear of the forcing cone. The guns were mainly designed to shoot lead bullets. Something I never knew, but if you think about the metallurgy back then, it makes sense.

There's some nice old S&W N Frames in this video.

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Magneto · May 26, 2025

I love the Pearce Brothers videos! Always interesting and fun.

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M25max · May 27, 2025

It would be nice to know what round count went through the model 28 to wear it out. After watching the video I became paranoid to shoot jacketed bullets in my revolver, not really, but kind of. I heard there was some article that mentioned S&W changed barrel steels to something like 1045 steel in WWII. Did they again change it when jacketed bullets became the norm in the 1970’s and 80’s?

Walkin Horse · May 27, 2025

Makes sense. I just read an article BH for Lead vs copper jacketed. Hard cast lead is between 5 and 27. Copper is 87 to 115 with the lead core at 10. Bad news is I belong to an indoor range that only allows copper jacket. So I’ll have to find a place to shoot my old Smiths.

alwslate · May 27, 2025

Something people need to understand about the change from 1025 steel to 1045 steel is that doubling the carbon level of a relatively soft low carbon steel does not double the strength or resistance to wear. The increase in wear resistance would be minor.

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