Schofield to the Dr.

[Silver_Rings]

A while ago, about 3 yrs, I was cleaning my 3 Schofields.  I pulled the cylinders on all three and swabbed the chambers with cleaner and set them in a tray to soak while working on the barrels.   When I put the cylinder back in the first pistol and test cocked it there was a crunch.  At this time it dawned on me that I might have put the wrong cylinder in it.  Yup I did.  Put the correct cylinder in it and it was still stiff feeling when cocking it.  Now this pistol has always been temperamental.

I set it aside as my back up.  Anyway finally took it in to the local smith.  He had never worked on a Schofield, so I was a little nervous.  After his first try at fixing it when I went in to pick it up it was still stiff and still did not always index the cylinder.  So he kept it and worked on it some more.  What he found was that there were some burs around the hold in the recoil shield where the the cylinder pin seats.  These he pounded down so they are even with the surface and had to file 3 of the ratchets on the cylinder because they would hang up on the burs.  This has fixed the problem. 

Anyone else run into this?

SR

[Virginia Gentleman]

No, but I am thinking this may be a problem with my Navy Arms Schofield because it indexes kinda funny.