Guns and Ammo Thread

[Fluidic Kimbo]

My penchant for .22LR is all about price.

I'm just dipping my toes here into the sport of shooting, and I have a friend of mine telling me to get a 9mm Glock, but I'm going with a .22LR revolver. Because cheap ammo and no feeding issues.

When my firearms certificate is approved and I can take my new gun home, I'm gonna take the cylinder out and use a vernier callipers on it to get measurements, then I'll try make a file for a CNC lathe to make a perfect replica of the cylinder. If I can make a fully-functional cylinder that works just as good as the original, then next I will try to put more holes in the cylinder. Right now the capacity is 7 but I'd love to bump it up a bit to 10 or more.

Here's how it looks right now:

[almostgone]

My penchant for .22LR is all about price.

I'm just dipping my toes here into the sport of shooting, and I have a friend of mine telling me to get a 9mm Glock, but I'm going with a .22LR revolver. Because cheap ammo and no feeding issues.

When my firearms certificate is approved and I can take my new gun home, I'm gonna take the cylinder out and use a vernier callipers on it to get measurements, then I'll try make a file for a CNC lathe to make a perfect replica of the cylinder. If I can make a fully-functional cylinder that works just as good as the original, then next I will try to put more holes in the cylinder. Right now the capacity is 7 but I'd love to bump it up a bit to 10 or more.

Here's how it looks right now:

That won't work. If there is space (very doubtful), you will still have to time the cylinder to the hammer and still be in line with the bore. If you're going to bastardize the thing and risk hurting someone else, I hope they deny you the firearm. That is one of the most irresponsible ideas I've ever heard.

You don't f-in file accurate holes. You center drill them, drill them, then ream them in an accurate location.

Up to now, I thought you were more intelligent than that. Weird, but more intelligent.

[Cylon357]

That won't work.

It's almost like timing, degrees and minutes of angle are important. Dang, I guess we really WILL use high school math after all...

[almostgone]

It's almost like timing, degrees and minutes of angle are important. Dang, I guess we really WILL use high school math after all...

Exactly. The diameter and pitch of the pattern to receive the cartridges is critical.....in addition to the timing.

Who wants to attempt to fire a revolver with the cylinder out of time....dang, talk about shaving lead ( if you get off that lucky).

[Fluidic Kimbo]

It's almost like timing, degrees and minutes of angle are important.

After I bring the gun home and remove the cylinder, I'll see if it's possible to adjust the degrees by which the trigger rotates the cylinder.

Of course if I ever did put a custom-made cylinder in it, I'd test it without ammo a thousand times, and then I'd test it with blanks a thousand times, before trying a real round.

The engraving along the side of the barrel is horrible, it says TRACKER in big capital letters. I wonder if there's any way I could have the engraving filled in.

[Fluidic Kimbo]

I see that someone has made a picatinny rail to fit the Taurus Tracker so I might get it and stick a green laser on it.

Also there's a deer stalking course next month so I might do it. Stalking deer with a revolver with a green laser would be enjoyable.

[Honkey_Kong]

That won't work. If there is space (very doubtful), you will still have to time the cylinder to the hammer and still be in line with the bore. If you're going to bastardize the thing and risk hurting someone else, I hope they deny you the firearm. That is one of the most irresponsible ideas I've ever heard.

You don't f-in file accurate holes. You center drill them, drill them, then ream them in an accurate location.

Up to now, I thought you were more intelligent than that. Weird, but more intelligent.

There are speedloaders for most revolvers that are currently in production. Besides, the cylinders that the gun manufacturer made have been thoroughly tested to be able to withstand the pressures of the rounds they shoot. If you mill some cylinder, even if you get timing right on it, You don't know if that thing is going to work time after time or if it's going to be a pipebomb in your hand.

Actually, after thinking about this a little more. I full support Kimbo making himself a cylinder for his revolver. I just think he needs to go with a higher caliber than .22lr.

[stocky121]

My penchant for .22LR is all about price.

I'm just dipping my toes here into the sport of shooting, and I have a friend of mine telling me to get a 9mm Glock, but I'm going with a .22LR revolver. Because cheap ammo and no feeding issues.

When my firearms certificate is approved and I can take my new gun home, I'm gonna take the cylinder out and use a vernier callipers on it to get measurements, then I'll try make a file for a CNC lathe to make a perfect replica of the cylinder. If I can make a fully-functional cylinder that works just as good as the original, then next I will try to put more holes in the cylinder. Right now the capacity is 7 but I'd love to bump it up a bit to 10 or more.

Here's how it looks right now:

If by some miracle you did increase the ammo capacity. Then it wouldn’t conform to the FAC.