I bought a police trade-in Smith and Wesson 66-7 last weekend. I inspected it and function tested it and everything looked good. The only thing I'm a little concerned about is headspace. I don't have an empty case, only live rounds, so I didn't want to measure headspace with my feeler guages. I don't have actual headspace gauges either. I'm wondering what the headspace measurement should be if I used a case and feeler guages. Is it .060"? What concerned me was from looking at the air gap between the case and frame on a new Taurus revolver that I've only put 50 rounds through and comparing that to my used Smith. The gap is definetly wider, but not sure if it's too much.
I haven't had a chance to shoot it yet so not sure if it will have light strikes or any of that. I suppose I could try and find a gunsmith and see if he could real quick check the headspace. Wonder what that would cost? What is rememedy for having too much headspace?
I'm not real concerned about it, but I thought I'd run it by you guys and see what you thought.