Good Guns?

[KBCraig]

I've been given some tips for inspecting a prospective handgun purchase:

I'm not a revolver expert, but some revolver snobs I respect point people to the Jim March revolver checkout list. Seems worth passing along.

I'm not a revolver expert either, but I learned a lot from that page. I think Zenman gave the Cliff's Notes version, but the Jim March article supplies the "how to" along with the "what to".

It's important, because most revolvers have a lot of cylinder slop when they're at rest. Movement and alignment only count when the revolver is in "ready to fire" mode.

Kevin

[Zenman]

That is a great article. The Rossi .38 I had had almost no cylinder play, but I remember shooting a .357 once that had so much that you wondered how it ever got lined up properly. You could easily imagine a certain amount of lead being scraped off with each shot fired.