Bill Sahlberg

If your cylinder is shorter you will have excessive loss of speed due to the cylinder being greater than the Factory .0006"... We tried this in the 1970s with our PPC 38 Specials machining the cylinders shorter so that the 148 gr HBWC would almost be flush and have less bullet jump to the forcing cone making better accuracy. It didn't work as we also had to turn down the 6" barrels, rethreading them to screw in further and keeping that .0006" gap.

Nope! But also remember the 9MM is a tapered case but not the 38SC so you may be able to ream your 929 cylinder but why?

When was the gun mfg? Older guns never had issues. Newer guns as mentioned above use MIM parts (metal injection molding or powdered metal)

9mm is a tapered case and the 327s & 627s are machined for straight wall cases...

I am certain that nobody has ever made full moon clips for a Colt as even the cylinder release is too slow for opening to reload...

Here is the parts number from Brownell's. I bought these a few years ago...

I always get my own brass back since its attached to the full moon clips. I have reloaded the 38 Colt short 25+ times with a small amount of split cases...

My Brownell's 38 Super full moon clips have fit all 5 of my 627s and cylinder closes as it should. Factory Starline 38 Super brass drops in with room to spare and ejects easily. Reloads must use the undersized 38 Super die that George makes at EGW. (Been doing this since 1997) However, I mainly shoot 38 Colt Short (with 3/4" of freebore) because of no advantage to shooting Major.

I shoot CCI 40 gr HPs, they are readily available and shoot very consistently.

Just buy the EGW unersized 38 Super die and re-size all your loaded ammo -or- buy new 38 Super Starline brass and load it. Both fit in ALL my 627 cylinders and extract easily.

Reaming of your 627 cyinder is not necessary to shoot 38 Super 'IF' you size them properly with the EGW undersized die (-.0002) or use new Starline Brass. I have Brownells 38 Super Full Moon Clips that work great with my Starline brass.

This would create another revolver division and we already are the smallest USPSA shooting division... Iron Sight (Ltd Revo) Optics (Open Revo)

In the 1st year of shooting my 627, I sent back one of my early 627s when Tom Kelly was the there for a broken trigger pin. The RA came right away and it only took 2 weeks to get it back. I still believe all warranty work requires the entire gun back.

Parts will not just drop in as you think. Be prepared to re-modify and re-smith many...

The 929 with MIM parts is way more expensive to tune that the older 627s with forged steel parts. Best to find an older 627 before they added the trigger lock system and MIM parts

I shot pins for years! Best revolver is a S&W 625 45acp using 230 gr JHPs as they are powerful enough to take the pin clear off the table. Aim center of pin belly to get your widest & best hit

Never had this trouble with my competition 627s since 1996, but my guns were never as dirty as these pix!

I use to use Win SPP but found that Federal SPP allow me to loosen just the strain screw and get a lifhter pull with 100% ignition! (thanks to an article I read from Clark Custom Guns from Jerry Miculek back in the 1980s)

Hogue black rubber grips are the cats meow...

I have dry-fired both frame & hammer firing pins since 1974 and never have had a problem...

It is a modified Safariland that Charlie Prest made out of Phoenix, AZ

No, only Ed Brown & Hogue

Have owned 627s and 929s, kept the 627s and couldnt get either of my 929s to run nearly as good as their older better built non MIM parts brothers. Hmmm...tapered 9mm case in a straight walled cylinder....IMHO I see nothing but long term trouble in this scenario. However, in 1996 when I bought my first 3 early 627s through Lew Horton, I got lotsa crap about shooting 38 Colt Shorts (north of 120K+ without having to replace anything yet) I have also shot 38 Super in my 627s with great accuracy & success but they too are a straight walled case. Please keep me up to date on your success or failures!

My 627 38/357 shoots 38 Super undersized an EGW die just fine but will not load the 9mm tapered cases in the same cylinder.

In my 627 I shoot Starline Brass 38 Colt Shorts and Montana Gold 130 gr RN with 4.6 gr Universal Clay's at 1.100" Federal primers at 1050 fps. I tried heavier bullets, 147 & 160 gr but found the lighter bullet had less recoil and muzzle flip. Also the accuracy with the lighter bullets was a bit better.