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Post by stubshaft on Apr 3, 2023 2:57:19 GMT -5
Back when I ordered my FA 83 in 454 Casull, Freedon Arms offered a tungsten insert for the forcing cone to eliminate any erosion. After over 8,000 rounds through it, it still looks brand new.
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Post by 45MAN on Apr 3, 2023 6:55:21 GMT -5
Back when I ordered my FA 83 in 454 Casull, Freedon Arms offered a tungsten insert for the forcing cone to eliminate any erosion. After over 8,000 rounds through it, it still looks brand new. I HAVE A MNP STALKERIZED 10" 454/45 COLT DUAL CYLINDERED MODEL 83 WITH THE TUNGSTEN INSERT, WORKS GREAT.
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Post by bradshaw on Apr 3, 2023 8:08:28 GMT -5
Back when I ordered my FA 83 in 454 Casull, Freedon Arms offered a tungsten insert for the forcing cone to eliminate any erosion. After over 8,000 rounds through it, it still looks brand new. ***** Freedom Arms offered the abrasion resistant FORCING CONE INSERT at my request when it built the first Model 83 that was not a .454 Casull, a .44 Mag 10-inch. My request to Wayne Baker at Freedom Arms was based on barrel face erosion Bill Ruger, Jr., and I experienced in prototype Ruger SRM .357 Maximums. Some of the experimental ammo was hot and at times we shot at a fair pace. The idea for a forcing cone insert comes from the Stellite liner in M-60 machine gun barrels. At the Lacey Place factory in Southport, Connecticut, where all Ruger single actions were produced at that time, Bill, Jr., took an SRM across the street to the plant that chrome plated M-16 chambers for Colt. The forcing cone was hard chromed. Up in Croydon, New Hampshire, behind Bill, Sr.’s house, I loaded six rounds of Remington experimental .357 Maximum (1.605-inch case). Pull cylinder after six shots; immediate flecking of chrome at corner barrel face/forcing cone. Bill had yet to fit SRM-2 with ten barrels of twists ranging from 1:10 to 1:60-inch, so we know the barrel was a George Wilson, button-rifled 1:16. We dropped the idea of a hardened insert or plating. During late testing of the .357 Maximum in 1982, Bill. Jr., brough a pair of stainless steel Super Blackhawk .44’s into the mix, a 7-1/2" and 10-1/2”. I shot these at the Croydon property. The 10-1/2” gave great accuracy. Bill took my suggestion for the silhouette version to follow the Maximum, with untapped 10-1/2” barrel, the Maximum extractor, and screw-attached target sight. Bill also had me shoot a stainless prototype SRM. Given proper alloys and heat treatments, stainless steel resists barrel face/forcing cone erosion much better than carbon steel. It’s probably longevity that caused bench rest shooters to start the trend toward stainless barrels. David Bradshaw
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Post by bula on Apr 3, 2023 8:35:06 GMT -5
Try Power Pistol or HS-6 ?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2023 14:44:37 GMT -5
Only this one has eroded. I've been using the same loads in all my guns, but I do use this particular gun the most. I think it's the barrel metal itself.
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