Colt Mk. III Trooper Lockwork and Internals

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Depends on what you shoot through it. Back when I owned my two, HOT loads with 125 JHP's were in vogue. I did a hand replacement and fitting on my 2 1/2" because of that. My compressed Blue Dot loads cracked the hammer of the 4" when my Dad still owned it, he came home from qualifying and 'confiscated' my Trooper MkIII, went back and finished. I never got it back. (I was 17 at the time)
A steady diet of .38's with the occasional box of .357's, and yeah, they'll last longer.

Mmm, that doesn't ring true either. I have never ever shot a 38spl in any of my Python's, or any 357 revolver I own (that I can remember that is). I never shoot a shorter case bullet in a chamber designed for a longer case. I don't overload, but the only light loads I load is for cowboy action. I've shot everything from 115gr FMJ to 200gr hard cast in my Pythons.
 
No.

I remember police officers' bringing their guns in for adjustment and picking them up afterwards.

The subject is discussed by a Colt representative in the latest American Rifleman magazine.

My guns must be special then. And those of my (two) friends who own Pythons.
 
Definitely not an urban legend. You could tell which Depts. had good Coltsmiths, by how many officers shot Pythons. PPC led to the decline of that.

Mmm, that doesn't ring true either. I have never ever shot a 38spl in any of my Python's, or any 357 revolver I own (that I can remember that is). I never shoot a shorter case bullet in a chamber designed for a longer case. I don't overload, but the only light loads I load is for cowboy action. I've shot everything from 115gr FMJ to 200gr hard cast in my Pythons.

Then I suggest you buy a lottery ticket, because at 10,000 rounds you are well overdue for a bench session, or are grossly exaggerating round count. Either that or yours are way out of time and you don't know it.
 
Definitely not an urban legend. You could tell which Depts. had good Coltsmiths, by how many officers shot Pythons. PPC led to the decline of that.

Pythons aren't popular for PPC as their trigger reset is bad and for the longest time they have been terribly expensive and very few parts have been available. S&W's have a smorgasbord of aftermarket parts.

Then I suggest you buy a lottery ticket, because at 10,000 rounds you are well overdue for a bench session, or are grossly exaggerating round count. Either that or yours are way out of time and you don't know it.

And I'll take another wild guess, you don't own a Python either, rght? But you owned a couple way back.
 
Yes, I owned them in the late 80's and early 90's, and a Troooper MKIII before that.

And yes the trigger reset was one of the problems early PPC shooters using Colts ran into. That and having to constantly work on them, or have them worked on, whereas S&W didn't have as many problems with the numbers of rounds needed to seriously compete. But I tire of this, so you keep shooting that Python.
 
Whatever indeed. Let me guess, you don't own a Python? But you may have owned a couple way back right? Got it
The design of the Python action was identical to that of the Army Special, the Officers' Model, the Three-Fifty-Seven, the early Trooper, and the Officers' Model Match.

Of course you knew that, even though you have somehow been unaware of the well-known timing wear issue that has been inherent in all of them, and in the Detective Special and Police Positive, since the beginning

I owned an OMM. I did not shoot it enough to need to have it serviced,
 
How hard is it to fix one back into timing? I know being a Coltsmith is both a legendary and dying art, but how hard is it , even for someone with a lot of experience with revolvers?
 
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