Talking With Larry Crow This Morning

[JimT]

Competitive Edge Gunworks ... He is doing the Taylor Throating on sixguns ... one of the few that I know are doing it. For anyone who may be interested here is his article on it ... https://competitiveedgegunworks.net/articles

[AmBraCol]

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing that. I do differ in opinion with him on one matter, sometimes one is limited in what one can do and one can get decent results with less than optimal equipment. So far I've done three Taylor Throat jobs with a Taylor Throat reamer I picked up from Brownells nearly 20 years ago. The Colombian Llama revolvers that I've examined have ALL had a misalignment between the cylinder and the barrel. This could probably be corrected better by someone with the equipment and know how, but that ain't me. Using the reamer with the barrel in the frame I carefully cut the throat. This allowed for the round nose ammunition we're obligated to use here (as that's all that's available legally) to not scrape along the edge of the throat when transitioning from the chamber to the barrel. Where as before one could easily find the edge of the cylinder throat with a brass rod, after reaming the barrel throat this was eliminated. The result being, no more leading and increased accuracy. Now there's no doubt that doing it RIGHT would be preferable. But when there's no qualified smith around to do it, one does what one can. I still think this old Llama would shoot better if it could get to the hands of someone with the proper equipment and know how. But it shoots far better than it did from factory with a simple hand reamed Taylor throating job. Again, my experience so far is three sixguns and I know he's done hundreds, if not thousands. Given a choice, I'd have him work mine over, but that choice ain't possible.

[Paladin]

Thanks for that

[JimT]

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing that. I do differ in opinion with him on one matter, sometimes one is limited in what one can do and one can get decent results with less than optimal equipment.

I have done several like that in the past and had good results also. I know they could have been done better, but I was happy doing it myself. These days, if I need one done I will send it and have it done.

[Grizz]

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing that. I do differ in opinion with him on one matter, sometimes one is limited in what one can do and one can get decent results with less than optimal equipment.

I have done several like that in the past and had good results also. I know they could have been done better, but I was happy doing it myself. These days, if I need one done I will send it and have it done.

This info discouraged me from trying to smith my Redhawk, which has the skinny cylinder syndrome, and could use the Taylor Throat treatment before it's ready the valve grinding compound. The Redhawk really needs the TLC, but my household really needs the gas money. Which is why i am content with a poorly placed center mass 44 Spcl shot an inch high . . .

OTOH, if I were fifty or sixty years younger I would save up my paper route income for a completely rehabbed six shooter...