N Frame Cylinder Size Question

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Do all N Frames have the same sized cylinder? For example is the cylinder on my 627PC 357 8 shot, the same diameter as the 625 JM 45acp 6 shot?

Just wondering for holster fit purposes. Thanks!
 
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I had a Cowboy Action Leather maker make this for my N frame guns. It fits my 625, 627 and Model 22 of 1917 perfectly.



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PC 625-8, PC 627-5 both measure 1.712 in diameter.
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Do all N Frames have the same sized cylinder? For example is the cylinder on my 627PC 357 8 shot, the same diameter as the 625 JM 45acp 6 shot?

Just wondering for holster fit purposes. Thanks!

As long as the holster isn't highly boned, since the flutes will be in different places.

Adios,

Pizza Bob
 
Outside diameter will be pretty much the same. Length, no! And the eight shooters chambers are larger radial offset from centerline.
 
Outside diameter will be pretty much the same. Length, no! And the eight shooters chambers are larger radial offset from centerline.

I have to question this. You are pretty much locked-in to a firing pin position because of frame geometry constraints - therefore the circle described by a line passing through the center of the primers would have to be the same diameter, regardless of whether it is 6-shots or 8, in order to get a center primer strike.

On L-frames you can convert 7 to 6 or vice versa without changing the firing pin - I would assume the same goes for the N-frame 6 and 8 shot guns.

The walls between chambers just get thinner - the distance from longitudinal centerline of cylinder to longitudinal centerline each chamber (radial offset) would be the same.

Just seems reasonable.

Adios,

Pizza Bob
 
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