Disassembled RV

[Silas McFee]

Remember those posts from time to time where people wonder if they should take apart their RV's/clones/colts after shooting BP?  I mean past removing the cylinder, and getting at the trigger and the little bits inside. 

Two days ago curiousity got the best of me when I saw from the sticker that my RV was 4 years old, used almost only with BP, and I never took it apart.  So I found a manual, and took the grip frame off the frame, and had a look.  I've never been exactly stingy with the Ballistol, and it showed.  There was some soot in there, but not much.  There was also a good coating of Ballistol on everything.  Looked fine.  I feel better about this now.

[Dick Dastardly]

Ho Silas,

I've had similar results.  Next time yer by the ranch, bring 'em RVs along.  We'll dump 'em in my Moosemilk bath and blow 'em out with the air compressor.  Cleans 'em up inside and out and leaves a film of Ballistol.  Then, if ya want to, we kin set 'em on the shelf inside the furnace for a while.  Nice and toasty warm and very dry in there.  Them RVs will think they've died and gone to heaven.

DD-DLoS

[Steel Horse Bailey]

DD:

Sounds like a real vacation spot fer BP guns! 

I like ta baby my gunz, too!  But I arsen't got no hair compresser, tho. 

[Sheriff A.E. Moses]

Silas McFee,
Is your RV a bottleneck case or a straight walled caliber?

[Dick Dastardly]

Ol Silas 'n me, we shoot 44 ELR (Extra Long Russian), also more commonly known as 44 Magnum.  Turns out, this is the greatest sleeper cartridge goin' for BP SASS shootn'.  Tons of cheep brass out there.  Chambers 44 Russian, 44 Russian Long (44 Special) and 44 Extra Long Russian (44 Mag.).

When the 44 Mag case is chucked full of FFFg Swiss under a Mav Dutchman boolit, it's a Warthog dream.  I clock 'em over 800 fps and up to 900 fps depending on the powder maker.  They are no slouch in 44 Special either.  In 44 Russian they are a lot like the new Cowboy 45 Special in 45 Colt guns.

So, in answer to yer question, Silas 'n me shoot 44 RVs.  Old ones.  The big ones.  The man size RVs, not the puny NRVs that  Ruger can't make in 44 ELR. . .  . .

DD-DLoS

[Silas McFee]

hahahahahahhahahaha

Yep, it's about 33-34 grains of FFFg with the 200 gr MAV bullet.  They are snappy, but far from unreasonable.  Every once in a while I shock myself back into reasonableness with some factory 44mag rounds.  Nonetheless, the 44mag brass full of BP still bucks and roars. 

[Wills Point Pete]

 Steel Horse, you don't really need an air compresser. Get you a couple of cans of that "canned air" they use to blow the crumbs out of computer keyboards, it will work just fine.

[Noz]

Silas, I got my 41Mag Bisley BlackHawk Hunter out for deer season. Hadn't shot it for over a year. Stuck six of my pet deer loads in and let her rip. You forget how little recoil you get from CAS loadings. 170 Sierras at some over 1700 fps do buck a bit.

[Driftwood Johnson]

Howdy

I must admit 4 years is a little bit longer than I like to go without a complete dissassembly. I generally like to take my BP guns apart once a year for a complete cleanout. I have said on these wires many times that Ballistol and or Murphy's Mix, or whatever your favorite BP solvent is will protect the innards as long as it leaves a gooey, oily deposite behind. Coat BP fouling with oil and it can't pull any moisture out of the air. It's already soaked with oil. No water means no rust.