Pity The Forcing Cones on Revolvers:

This is a critical area ..

 

VARIABLES again

Hands up all of those who noted the shim-shield fitted in A attempting to protect the top strap from flame-cutting erosion .. 

Forcing Cones are cut at 11 degrees ? 

(Half of 90 is 45,  half of 45 is 22.5 - half of that is 11.25?)

.. what about Free Bores?

and the dreaded Cylinder Gap ..

Who was Deep Throat? *

There may have been a weakness in the metal here ..

They can Break:

This high pressure zone is exposed to ABUSE, abrasion, heat, flame, and Gas Pressure .. Add to that, wear & tear combined with NEGLECT - CORROSION - Metalurgical faults - AND poor dimensioal control resulting from dull cutters, worn jigs, unskilled machinists, and cavalier Quality Control.

Top bullet Fired from cylinder with NO barrel

Distorted by gas pressure instead of 'obturated' to the bore

- And that is just the FORCING CONE .. What about the rest of that horrific design, claimed by Samuel Colt to be his original genius?

Revolvers are an awful clockwork mechanical device involving levers and cams - gears and springs sliding and pivoting in conflicting directions or VECTORS with the function of REPEATABILITY - that, if all goes well, will permit a heat engine to sequentially accelerate small but massive projectiles towards and into a target - when activated by the muscles of one finger.

There are gas leaks, friction losses, pressure losses, conra-rotations, misalignments, and moments of recoil with injurious loud noise conspiring to thwart any achievement while the human element tries to focus at three distinct ranges to align three points ..

What about that swing-out CRANE or even better, the TOP-BREAK unloading device? - Mechanical nightmares.

Naturally there are "experts" who claim that revolvers are superior weapons because of their mechanical simplicity ..

DON'T YOU JUST LOVE REVOLVERS?

c&rsenal Revolver 101: link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR66UUlqsIo&t=3006s

Marty K.

* DEEP THROAT was William Mark Felt Snr - FBI Special Agent and Deputy Director who revealed WATERGATE secrets to the public via The Washington Post .. leading to President Nixon's 1974 resignation.