Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933

Keep a close watch on your hammer/trigger engagement. Once the sear surfaces have started to wear that is almost a sure sign the surface hardening on the parts has worn away. Filing will just take the notches even further into softer metal. If you know someone that can do it you should have the filed surfaces rehardened.

On the 66 you can also drill and tap a hole in the lower tang for a strain screw. Just like a 73 has. Then if you are away from home and start getting misfires you can tighten the strain screw to increase mainspring pressure.

Anything can be slicked up. The question is how easy can it be slicked up and what parts are available. Stick with Uberti, Pietta or Ruger as they all tune well and there are parts available. For a new shooter steer away from Open Tops, Schofields or any of the off-the-wall models as these are not well supported and have peculiarites most new shooters are not going to want to deal with. In the price range you are looking you are pretty much limited to Uberti and Pietta. Even used Rugers are generally going for more than your price range these days.

Those Slix triggers are for 73s not 66s. Have they startedd making 66 triggers?

That is strange. Have you done some strange mod to your 73?

What is .45 SPP brass?

So does that mean if it is 12:00 noon Pacific time they still have some?

I called the number on the website last Monday (April 15) about an order I had placed at EOT. They answered right away and said the bullets would go out on Tuesday. They arrived at my house on Friday (April 19).

Try putting in the old trigger spring. You did not list what mods have been done. Different mainspring? Changed the lifter and carrier springs? Short stroke?

Since you have already ordered the parts you are on the right track. The most likely cause of the problem is the tip of the trigger (sear) rounding its edges. The next most likely is the hammer full cock notch wearing. The least likely problem is the trigger spring, although anything can fail. It is also possible for the hole in the receiver that the firing pin extension rides in to ware but that would take a LOT of rounds. If you do not know what you are doing, do not have the proper stones or hones for the job and do not have a sear jig your chances of making things worse out weight your chances of making things better. You have not provided any good CLEAR photos of any of these parts so any further guesses are just that. SWAGS.

Thin crust pizza?

610.

Sounds fair.

Using a vise when work space gets scarce is a good idea. I do not even know where I got it but I used a scrap piece of aluminum as a mount for a press I wanted to use just for decapping. Angle iron or anything rigid will work and the vise swivels so you can get a comfortable angle.

Another old model sizer/decapper was this one from Mec: I removed un-needed linkage and converted one into a dedicated taper crimper for the Roger Rapid taper die.

It has been a long time but my recollection of Brandon Lee's death is that there was a scene where the gun was shown with bullets. They removed the dummies and the bullet from one stayed in the cylinder throat and the blank was loaded behind it.

There would not be bullets in blanks. However, I am sure most of us have seen scenes where the muzzle is pointed at the camera and you can see dummy bullets in the cylinder. I am not going to go back and rewatch hundreds of hours of testimony but my recollection is that there were dummy rounds and these had no primers and had holes drilled in the brass case.

There are videos on YouTube put out by a judicial watch organization. Here is day 4. It is LONG so I just did a screen shot of one of the exhibits showing the semi-wadcutter and trailboss powder.

The Roman's used slings that used lead bullets. These bullets are found on ancient battlefields all over the empire. A skilled man with a sling could hit a man-sized target at 130 yards. The bullets were effective in volley fire at over 400 yards. These are unusal in that they are inscribed with the name of Julius Caesar and were found in Spain on the battlefield where Caesar defeated Pompey's legions. Most of these bullets had curses engraved on them.

The part of the trial dealing with the live ammo on set was interesting. HSM supplied the blank ammo and dummy rounds and was sued claiming they inadvertantly put live rounds in the box. The evidence was HSM only uses RNFP bullets in their .45 Colt ammo and used powder that is only available to commercial loaders. The live ammo was loaded with semi-wadcutter bullets and Trailboss powder. The case against HSM was dismissed.

Well there you go. Push - drop - worn.

Really? I watched some of the trial and testimony and do not know how anyone can reach that conclusion.

Using Abilene's photo the "wear" the red arrow is pointing to is not really wear. As he noted it is there to aid in over the top single loading. Ejection and jams during ejection take place at the tiny gap the green arrow is pointing to. If the gap is too big or the back surface rounded or damaged you can get a failure to eject and/or jam.

Uberti rifles and many of their parts have varied through the years. For example an older bolt is in the top photo and a newer one in the bottom photo. The rib on the bottom of the bolt that rides in the groove on the bottom of the carrier is different. The newer bolts are wider as shown in the photos. A new bolt will not fit in an old carrier without running a mill down the slot in the bottom of the carrier to widen it. This could definitely give the kind of drag you are talking about. If you are not familiar with Uberti 73 rifles your best bet is to take it to someone that is.