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Cylinder Chamfering Q's


elenius

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I got sick of cartridge heads catching on the chamber edges, so I got a 1/2" counter sink from Home Depot, and I'm about to do some damage to my Ruger GP-100 :)

However, I would feel much better about it if I had actually seen chamfered cylinders before :D

How much should I chamfer? Anyone with a 38/357 out there who can tell me what the max diameter of the chamfered hole should be?

What do I do about the extractor star? Should I just chamfer with that in? Will it still push out the cartridges ok, or will they slip off the star because of less contact surface?

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The first time I did it I just took the sharp edge off with a countersink sold at one of the warehouse places then buffed it a bit to make sure it was smooth - just hand turned the tool about 5 or 6 tiimes with little or no pressure just to see if I would break anything.

To my surprise, just taking that sharp edge off a bit really, really helped.

Forget about max diameter, don't go wild for now, and just take the sharp edge off - and shoot RN bullets.

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