I just got my S&W 625PC back from the gunsmith. The cylinder indexing problem is corrected and it now wears an Apex spurless hammer, a C&S firing pin, a new sear, an amazing cylinder chamfer (the moonclips jump into the cylinder now) and everything polished-up inside. Trigger is like a hot knife through butter (not as good as Alec's, but mine can use factory ammo).

 

 

Can't wait to try it out at Phillipsburg this Saturday.

 

Adios,

 

Pizza Bob

Nice! Good luck with it Bob!

Very pretty. Good luck with her

Very nice Bob.

 

 

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Trigger is like a hot knife through butter (not as good as Alec's, but mine can use factory ammo).

 

Ooh... not so subtle dig

Bob, that thing is beautiful!

Pretty bad ass, ill say it again bob, you have the nicest toys, very jealous!

Your barrel's too short !

Your barrel's too short !

 

That's what she said !

 

Oh !

Let me borrow it for a week!

 

Must handle like a dream. I pulled the trigger on a S&W that had work done

and since then all stock triggers feel like total garbage.

Nice, Bob! Come shoot it at CJ this weekend!

i think i just cum!

i think i just cum!

so creepy..lol

I want to say something nice about it, but I can't. Why? Because I'm a jerk and I don't like it.

Nice pistol, Bob. Like, very nice.

 

Just a rant, but it kinda irks me that the frame on these isn't shortened to accomodate the cylinder a little better. That gap in the front of the cylinder looks as though you could fly a small plane thru it. Nit picky, I know. But, it's how I feel. Still a nice pistol.

 

C

Ooh... not so subtle dig

 

It's ok, he can shoot his super hot factory loads that recoil like a sumofabeach.

 

 

 

 

Bob, you measure the d/a pull yet?

Nice pistol, Bob. Like, very nice.

 

Just a rant, but it kinda irks me that the frame on these isn't shortened to accomodate the cylinder a little better. That gap in the front of the cylinder looks as though you could fly a small plane thru it. Nit picky, I know. But, it's how I feel. Still a nice pistol.

 

C

 

The short cylinder makes the "bullet jump" less and therefore, supposedly, improves accuracy. Besides, if the cylinder ever needs to be replaced and the short ones are not available, you can always dress-off the end of the barrel, recut the forcing cone and then install a standard length cylinder (1.54" - 1.55"). Couldn't do that if they shrank the frame.

 

@alec mc - no, I don't have a guage. Next time we cross paths you can bring yours and we see what it actually is.

 

Adios,

 

Pizza Bob

 

@alec mc - no, I don't have a guage. Next time we cross paths you can bring yours and we see what it actually is.

 

 

 

Sure, i'll be sure to throw it in my range bag if you plan on making USPSA this month @ CJRPC or OBRPC

Finally!!! Very very nice

We're doing rock paper scissors for this weekend ...

The short cylinder makes the "bullet jump" less and therefore, supposedly, improves accuracy. Besides, if the cylinder ever needs to be replaced and the short ones are not available, you can always dress-off the end of the barrel, recut the forcing cone and then install a standard length cylinder (1.54" - 1.55"). Couldn't do that if they shrank the frame.

 

@alec mc - no, I don't have a guage. Next time we cross paths you can bring yours and we see what it actually is.

 

Adios,

 

Pizza Bob

 

Your base of knowledge on this stuff never ceases to amaze.

 

C

Your base of knowledge on this stuff never ceases to amaze.

 

C

 

not hard to do a lil googling chief!

not hard to do a lil googling chief!

 

What's Google?

Pizza bob is google.

Bob

It looks great. I saw one at the heritage guild over the weekend. Was really tempting. Hope you enjoy the mods.

 

What was he benefit of changing the firing pin? Stronger firing pin? Was the stock one prone to breakage ?

Very nice!

Bob

It looks great. I saw one at the heritage guild over the weekend. Was really tempting. Hope you enjoy the mods.

 

What was he benefit of changing the firing pin? Stronger firing pin? Was the stock one prone to breakage ?

 

There are a few different options for aftermarket firing pins, extended and " competition "

 

Extended are just that, they are a touch longer then stock, and some competition ones are actually shorter, theory being that if its shorter it has more time to travel and gain up speed to ignite a primer. These are typically on fancy competition revolvers with 4.5lb-5lb triggers.

 

 

I wasn't aware of the shorter FP theory. I believe that the firing pins offered by Apex and C&S are longer than stock. Stock firing pins measure appx .490" and some as long as .495" - which is where the aftermarket pins generally start and extend to .500" or slightly beyond.

 

The factory generally went with the shorter pins so they could pass drop tests required in some states. When lightning the trigger pull this sometimes created ignition problems. The longer firing pins address this issue. They are actually more prone to breakage than the stock pins and competition guns shouldn't be dry fired without snap caps.

 

Adios,

 

Pizza Bob