Barrel gap

[Ignatz]

The barrel gap on my 25-2 excessive and crooked. As much as 8 thou on one side and 16 thou on the other. Can this cause bullet splatter to hit me and competetors behind me? thanks

[Toolguy]

The barrel gap on my 25-2 excessive and crooked. As much as 8 thou on one side and 16 thou on the other. Can this cause bullet splatter to hit me and competetors behind me? thanks

That is way too much. S&W specs are .003 to .006. For lead bullets .005 to .006 works best. Also, check the front of the cylinder for runout,

some of them will vary a few thou. as they go around. A good smith can set the barrel back a turn and face off the cylinder and recut the

forcing cone.

[underlug]

The barrel gap on my 25-2 excessive and crooked. As much as 8 thou on one side and 16 thou on the other. Can this cause bullet splatter to hit me and competetors behind me? thanks

What it can cause is poor accuracy. Check the cylinder throats also. The mis-shaped cylinder is the reason my 25-2 now wears a 625 cylinder.

Thank you Randy Lee

[bountyhunter]

The barrel gap on my 25-2 excessive and crooked. As much as 8 thou on one side and 16 thou on the other. Can this cause bullet splatter to hit me and competetors behind me? thanks

That is one screwed up forcing cone. The factory says SW should gap between .003 and .010, but I have seen new guns as wide as .015". The crooked thing is not unusual, even on new guns. But, worst I have seen is maybe .003" side to side variation. Yours needs to be fixed.

[Ignatz]

Its a mint condition 25-2 that I bought a couple of years ago. One other wierd thing is the barrel is slightly over "tightened" so the front sight is slightly off when you line up the sights. I have two guns from S&W built on SuperBowl Monday. This one and my 625-7pc. My 625 is now shooting much better after having the barrel throat recut. The 25-2 still manages 3.5" groups at 25 yards. But every once in a while I feel something hitting me in the face. Time to go to the gun Doctor!