Question about the Rogers & Spencer revolver

[Tubac]

Charlie,
Where are you gonna get rimfire cartridges?

Tubac

[Halfway Creek Charlie]

I'm not.

I don't know yet if I want to mess with her. She's a neat old girl, but I would like to be able to shoot it.

IF I decide to convert it to C.F. I'll use the floating firing pin system within the recoil shield. There is a floating firing pin and IF I decide to do it. I'll be using that one or one like it.

Right now I just want to get the gun functioning like it should.(a good cleaning to remove the rust and dirt from inside and smooth the action, etc.) Cylinder doesn't index all the time. That is the hand spring not being sprung enough, as it flops back and forth in the slot.

This gun has been cleaned up some and from what is left of the rust and dirt under the cylinder pin she had been left in the weather or in a barn or??? How the bore stayed so good is beyond me. From the firing pin wear on the hammer she'd been used a lot. Maybe she IS one of those Mexican Revolution guns?

She's a neat old piece.

[mudvillemike]

I have a Rogers & Spencer cartridge conversion revolver. The serial number is 5310. I got it from my father, who got it from his uncle. Side note, my great uncle Ralph killed a man in self defense with this revolver in 1932. I shot it as a boy. My dad used to reload shells for it. I'm not 100 % certain if it shot .44 S & W Special or .44 Russian. The flat nose .44 Russian seems to have a lot of jump space from the cylinder to the barrel. I haven't gotten a round nose .44 Russian to check with yet. Some .44 Special cartidges, seem too long, some seem to fit perfectly, it depends on the bullet style. It seems to be a very mysterious revolver. I don't know when it was converted, I'm almost sure Bannerman didn't get his hands on it. I think the time of conversion would dictate which .44 cartridge it fires. Any comment, advice, or opinion on this is welcome. This is my first time on forum I'm not sure if my photos will attach, the files may be too big.