1875's starting to act up.......

[Jake Stoner]

Howdy All,
  Here's the scoop.....Two 75's , been shooting them for about six months. No dry firing. very slight burr cropping up around the firing pin hole in the frame. Found this when the gun bound up in a shoot after three rounds. There is slight scraping on the cartridge base and across the primer. Took a stone to the face of the frame around the pin hole and this cured the problem.
    However, its starting again.
Is this common to Remmies and is there a cure?   
Jake

[Old Top]

Jake,

I have been shooting 75's for about two years and have had to do that to one revolver only once, but it also had very tight head spaceing.

Old Top

[Papa Bear]

Jake,

That is a very common problem with these revolvers when new.  I'm suprized that it took six months for it to happen.  I had stoned the burr off mine a couple of times and have not had any more problems with it. 

[Halfway Creek Charlie]

That same...almost...problem happened to me with one of my 1977 '58 Euroarms, but it was the hammer face mushrooming from hitting against the Kirst Conversion cylinder.  That hammer seems not to be as hardened as the others. I stoned the leading edge of the hammer and that stopped the problem. I am checking it now when I clean the gun. I need to get a can of Casenite and reharden the hammer face. I couldn't for the life of me figure out what was happening until I just happened to glance at the hammer and firing pin area and saw the mushroomed hammer face....DUH!

[Virgil Ray Hality]

A very common problem with Italian clones.  Just stone the burr off.  If at some time in the future, enough metal has been taken off and you end up with a large firing pin hole, fina a gun smith that will install a Colt stype recoil shield.  That fixes the problem forever.