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Yup, just like The Kinks sing in Celluloid Heroes.......'Everybody's a dreamer, everybody's a star.....' Some lines from that song can be easily rewritten to 'People who worked and suffered and struggled to finish the stage, Some who succeeded, and some who suffered in vain'

99.9% of the time, the path to pump rifles is a one way route to shattered dreams, broken hearts, and empty wallets.

Top Man Schwaby! Good Job!!

Consider replacing the firing pin spring as well. Your replacement hammer spring might not be able to generate enough umph to work that factory firing pin spring.

Are you talking about needing a little extra force to cycle the gun when you are also cocking the hammer? Does this 'lump' still appear when working the lever with a cocked hammer?

Oh Boy!

Some things can by DYIable if can work some tools. Easiest thing to do right off the bat is swap out the hammer spring, and firing pin springs for aftermarket lightened springs for easier cocking and firing. Doing a shortstroke is easy on paper, but lots disassembly, reassembly, testing, then repeating until just right. Though this requires one to accept risk of mistakes, and thus starting over from scratch with a new kit.

I have a pair of Kirst 45LC for my ROA's, they dropped right in, no fuss no muss, and work great. Had them no for like 6 years. Just picked a pair of Kirst 45acp to diddle with, the drop in, no fuss no muss so far, have to wait a few month for a match to try them out.

For cowboy guns in NJ? Nobody I would trust, and I tried a few. Best bet is to literally find somebody out of state and deal with the two way shipping.

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Guess the natural gas companies don't 'donate' enough to the DNC........

I have been using a 45acp case full of lemishine, and scrubbing bubbles shower automatic shower cleaning liquid (though I think it might be discontinued now), with SS pins in my tumbler for 90s mins. Then I change out the water and go another 60mins with wash & wax car wash liquid I got at Autozone.

So you use no tumbling media whatsoever? Just the brass, water, and cleaning fluid/powder?

Sometimes, people may put in a lightened hammer spring for easier cocking, but the original handspring might be a tad stiff, so as the hammer falls, the hand spring, being stiff, slows everything down, by requiring more downward force to compress itself, than what could be delivered with the lightened hammer spring, which can result in lite primer strikes and/or failure to fire. So that's another reason people go for the coil spring conversion. I think @Coffinmaker explained it to me like that one time. I noticed the difference when I DIY'd the coil spring conversion on my Uberti 1860s a number of years back.

Do you have a website?

Oooooo..............night shoot with my 'special' loads!!!

In for a penny, in for a pound.......

Also try reaching out to Mike Beliveau, he has some DIY videos of smoothing action work, and has also recommended gunsmiths for C&B work. https://www.mikebeliveau.com/

French Bread

Another day closer Monday!

Glad to hear you had a good time. Next up, the Dark Side.

I found this Canadian company a number of years back, and they have this project called 'Royal Crown' that has nice embroidered ammo bags, which are rather pricey. They start at $30USD, can only be found in liquor stores, but come with a free bottle of rye whiskey! Bigger the bag you buy, the bigger the bottle of free rye whiskey. Dangest thing I've ever come across for ammo bags......

Gunfighters are a minority of shooters, and gunfighters who get the ump over split pistols are even a smaller minority, which one might never even cross paths with. I have noticed in my experience that when there is a split pistol stage, gunfighters do tend to shoot double duelist and have no qualms about it, and the largest reason for this is simply so they can engage the stage and not even have to pay attention to NOT cocking that 6th round at the wrong place and time.

Slim, what mold do you use? I don't cast, but maybe I can find a source that uses your mold.

50 feet.