davidj
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Hey everyone,
I'm replacing the barrel and cylinder on an old Victory model that was butchered 50 years ago by Cogswell & Harrison. The barrel is a new 3" for a 10-8 direct from S&W. (Note - they have these in stock right now.) The cylinder is NOS courtesy gunbroker. It is for a Model 10 and I don't know the 10-# variation number but it has LH threads and 2 locating pins and the gas ring on the cylinder (not the yoke) so I think it's recent production, e.g. 10-7 or later. Whatever it is, it is post-1961 because it has the LH threads.
So the question is -- will this safely handle +P loads? My thought is that it will, and that the strain imparted by the bullet passing from the cylinder to the forcing cone is within the limits of a Victory frame. Obviously the way to check would be to increase the pressure of the loads and watch the gap and endshake. Does anyone have any comments or input?
(Before someone goes off on the destruction of a Victory model ... this one was destroyed a long time ago by Cogswell and Harrison, not me. The 38 S&W cylinder was bored out a little longer so 38 Special rounds will drop in, but of course the bore diameter is wrong, and the chamber diameter is too large. They also lobbed off the last 1.5" of the 5" barrel and put a ridiculous looking, way-too-big ramp on it. It has zero collector value and is not even decent for shooting and I paid $105 with the intention of turning it into a project.)
I'm replacing the barrel and cylinder on an old Victory model that was butchered 50 years ago by Cogswell & Harrison. The barrel is a new 3" for a 10-8 direct from S&W. (Note - they have these in stock right now.) The cylinder is NOS courtesy gunbroker. It is for a Model 10 and I don't know the 10-# variation number but it has LH threads and 2 locating pins and the gas ring on the cylinder (not the yoke) so I think it's recent production, e.g. 10-7 or later. Whatever it is, it is post-1961 because it has the LH threads.
So the question is -- will this safely handle +P loads? My thought is that it will, and that the strain imparted by the bullet passing from the cylinder to the forcing cone is within the limits of a Victory frame. Obviously the way to check would be to increase the pressure of the loads and watch the gap and endshake. Does anyone have any comments or input?
(Before someone goes off on the destruction of a Victory model ... this one was destroyed a long time ago by Cogswell and Harrison, not me. The 38 S&W cylinder was bored out a little longer so 38 Special rounds will drop in, but of course the bore diameter is wrong, and the chamber diameter is too large. They also lobbed off the last 1.5" of the 5" barrel and put a ridiculous looking, way-too-big ramp on it. It has zero collector value and is not even decent for shooting and I paid $105 with the intention of turning it into a project.)
