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COLUMNS DECEMBER 2009
     
     
GUNSMITHING
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Some Essential Revolver Tools
Wheelguns need love, too.

 
             
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  The Manson Precision Reamers forcing cone and chamfering reamers and spot facing cutter are
essential to revolver barrel work. The Brownells plug gauge is handy for checking forcing cone depth.
 
     
  As recently as 10 or 15 years ago, suppliers to the gunsmithing trade had precious little to offer in the way of tools and parts for dedicated revolver work. Even the catalog of America’s premier gunsmithing supply house, Brownells, would have implied the only handgun available for sale in the United States of America was the M1911.

as changed. Custom builders and hobbyists alike will find useful tools, accessories and parts for both single and double-action revolvers from a variety of sources. In this column, we’ll touch on several which are basic to any serious wheelgun effort. They are simple to use and, while not necessarily cheap, costs are often amortized in less than the price of overnight, round-trip airfare to your favorite pistolschmidt, compliments of piratical common carriers waging war on innocent handgun owners.

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