10mmdave

I did these for a 44 Mag customer.

I believe there is an alignment tab on the 327 barrel shroud that mates to the frame so a swap between a 327 an 627 might be an issue. The 327 barrel shroud is steel and still weights a bit, but it's 5 inch length swings okay (imo). I like the idea of the shrouded barrel, Dan Wesson did/does it and Nowlin used to offer the same for S&W revo's, though in steel only I think. The pencil barrel idea is the least costly, the lathe work, clocking the barrel and setting the cylinder gap requires some tools and expertise.

The pivot pin on the hand goes into a notch on the bolt block, when the trigger is pulled all the way back the bolt rises up and prevents the bolt (the internal part that the cylinder release attaches to) from moving forward under recoil, thus un-locking the cylinder. (IIRC)

You did mention you smoothed things up in an earlier post, your pics don't show anything "over smoothed" but now it sounds like you have a sear that's on the edge of being too short. Do you have another sear to swap out from another gun ?

Good luck Big Dog, I'm sure we will all want to know what you find so please keep posting. (and sorry I re-asked about the ammo, I should have re-read your orig post)

Watching the video at .5 and .25 speed, the hammer looks to go forward like the other 5 shots, wouldn't this be a hang fire situation ?? Are you running new reloaded ammo that has had the brass cleaned differently ? I guess the real question is what ammo are you running ? Factory or reloads ? Definitely an odd thing, good luck with your search.

That's all I use when I can get it, got lucky last year and bought a case of it, time to find some more. I've had very good luck with the CCI Blazer for many years of shooting Steel Challenge. Mini Mags are the next ammo I go for, accuracy at 20 yrds seems to be the same there about, though I believe MM has the edge. Not sure if the 617's now are coming with the tight cylinder chambers, back some years it seemed everybody was having ejection problems. I was shooting the Blazer and never saw it, then the ammo shortages happened and I found a bunch would stick in the cylinder, Aquila, Eley, and some I forget. I was buying whatever was available. Good luck with new 617, see DS-10 above or ANSAC for some speed loaders and a loading block, if you plan on shooting steel it makes the day go so much better

Great to hear Squirrel, see you out on the range before we know it !

Oops, deleted my question as I thought Gargoil was an AD

Hope it works out for you wants, post some pics if you can for the masses.

Late to the party here but just wanted to add, I shoot a lot of N Frames in the games and when I went to my K frame sized 617 it just felt puny in my hand, so I put an N Frame Hogue grip on the gun and filled the hollow area in with some JB Weld, after it dried it was simple enough to smooth it out and contour it to the grip. Take too much off all you need to do is just add a little more JB Weld and start again !! After this I "sealed" the JB Weld with some super glue and now I can use any N frame sized grip I want on my K frame. (If u want better pic's let know and I'll see what I can do, just used my laptop camera for these two) PS Looking at the gun I took those pics of it looks like I should trim the tops of the ears of the grip a little, I've been shooting this setup the last 2 years and that;'s the first time I noticed it !!

Quart Tuperware container with some light soapy water and a can of compressed air maybe ?? Don't forget the drying towel for your hands. With the carts I see in use at shooting matches whats one more thing or two to lug around

I didn't see that, that makes no sense.

here's something else from Power Custom, horrible pic, from their website. https://powercustom.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=12&products_id=1155&zenid=9s6bvh77mr4fnbdplhup36hsb3 Annnd I just remembered you said it had to be offered by S&W, sorry.

Such a neat looking gun, why they don't offer it as a 6 shooter will anyone ever know ??