Free Spin Pawl
Tom
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Wednesday, April 08, 2020, 15:41 (2325 days ago)
Does free spin pawl mean the cylinder will rotate freely in both directions with the loading gate open on a single action? If so, what purpose does it serve?
Thanks guys.
yes, it comes in handy for loading, if you
Asa
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Wednesday, April 08, 2020, 15:52 (2325 days ago) @ Tom
skip a chamber you can just go backwards instead of all the way around, used in competition a lot. Have heard it can be helpful if a bullet jumps the crimp as well?
During the install the timing is precisely hand
WB
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Wednesday, April 08, 2020, 16:11 (2325 days ago) @ Asa
Fitted to perfection. It’s really beyond what most shade tree gunsmiths should attempt in my opinion. Well worth the professionals fee.
as far as I know we were the ones that developed
Gary Reeder
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Wednesday, April 08, 2020, 16:30 (2325 days ago) @ WB
that back in '87 for our original Black Widow. My gunsmith Mike Thompson was trying to fix an out of time gun by adding a lump of weld to the bottom of the hand and all of a sudden we had a freewheel. So as far as I know Mike was the first one to do it, totally by accident. At first nobody was interested in it but as soon as we got our own frames a year or two later in '90 we started doing that to all of them. And yes it has to be the perfect size weld for it to work. If not you have ruined a hand, which is really no big deal but a bit frustrating.
I went thru some of my old magazine clippings
Gary Reeder
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Thursday, April 09, 2020, 10:08 (2324 days ago) @ Gary Reeder
last night and not sure but John Linebaugh may have been the first. There is a mention in one of the magazine articles about the cylinder rolling both ways and that was about 3 months before we came up with it. So if I was wrong on it I apologize to John.