5- shot .45

okie
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Thursday, February 15, 2018, 22:11 (3128 days ago)

Gary, on your 5-shot .45 Long Colt conversions are the chambers standard size or are they tight like the Linebaugh's? I bought a Linebaugh gun one time and it wouldn't chamber standard .45's at all. Thanks

all 45 chambers need to be tight but they also need to

Gary Reeder
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Thursday, February 15, 2018, 23:28 (3128 days ago) @ okie

chamber the cartridge. Quite often the problem is the bullet being too wide and rubbing the inside of the chamber. All chambers are slightly tapered and when you load the WFN bullets it quite often causes problems. Knowing how well John's handguns are made I would imagine that was the problem, not the gun. So yes, our chambers are tight as they should be, but with the correct bullets like the LFN bullets or jacketed bullets they are fine. I have had very few problems with any of our 45 long Colt revolvers thru the last 35 years.

You've built me several 45s and a 454. Never...

Huey
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Thursday, February 15, 2018, 23:39 (3128 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

Had a problem with any of them.

5-shot .45

okie
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Friday, February 16, 2018, 08:32 (3128 days ago) @ Huey

That was an old Seville that I had, it was an oversize 6 shot but a factory loaded .45 Colt wouldn't fit in it. I'm interested in having a .45 built and was just wondering. Thank you

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