Glaciers
Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
I'll get pictures today, but I was watching a utube video "
" and Buffalo was testing a 3" SP101 in 327 mag. Started out by saying that he had a problem with high pressure factory loads. Flattened primers sticky extraction.
Well l just got a 4" (with adjustable sites, which is whatI wanted) SP101 327 mag and fired it the other day, one cylinder full, and had very difficult time extracting. Two shells looked bulged. Fired a cylinder of 32 H&R mag factory loads also just to see if there was a different result. Also difficult to extract. Well I looked in the cylinders and it looked like a carbine ring was there from shorter cartridges. Cleaned it out with Ed's Red and a brush. Looked good. Problems solved.
Well then I saw the YouTube vid by Buffalo. I admit I had not checked out this revolver hardly at all. So I went up to the shop and put the mic on the cases. Mic .337 which was case max spec, but looked bulged for both the 327 (45,000 psi) & the H&R (21,000 psi). The primers on the 327's were flattened. Not quite as bad as the ones Buffalo showed, but noticeable. The 32 H&R were also flattened but not as much. I will take pictures of the cases today and post them, both of the primers and the cases that look bulged. Even though the cases mic at max spec of .337, they just don't look right. So any thoughts on this problem. I had been looking forward to this Ruger as I could shoot all the lessor 32's in it, with the 32 Long and the 32 H&R mag being my main interest. 350 rounds each of 327 and 32 H&R came with the gun in the original case, so I thought I was set.
I have not fired this gun since cleaning and only six of each loading have been fired at all.
Well l just got a 4" (with adjustable sites, which is whatI wanted) SP101 327 mag and fired it the other day, one cylinder full, and had very difficult time extracting. Two shells looked bulged. Fired a cylinder of 32 H&R mag factory loads also just to see if there was a different result. Also difficult to extract. Well I looked in the cylinders and it looked like a carbine ring was there from shorter cartridges. Cleaned it out with Ed's Red and a brush. Looked good. Problems solved.
Well then I saw the YouTube vid by Buffalo. I admit I had not checked out this revolver hardly at all. So I went up to the shop and put the mic on the cases. Mic .337 which was case max spec, but looked bulged for both the 327 (45,000 psi) & the H&R (21,000 psi). The primers on the 327's were flattened. Not quite as bad as the ones Buffalo showed, but noticeable. The 32 H&R were also flattened but not as much. I will take pictures of the cases today and post them, both of the primers and the cases that look bulged. Even though the cases mic at max spec of .337, they just don't look right. So any thoughts on this problem. I had been looking forward to this Ruger as I could shoot all the lessor 32's in it, with the 32 Long and the 32 H&R mag being my main interest. 350 rounds each of 327 and 32 H&R came with the gun in the original case, so I thought I was set.
I have not fired this gun since cleaning and only six of each loading have been fired at all.
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