745
by pokute
All Ruger single actions made in the last decade (except for a small number that saw fresh tooling) have rough forcing cones. This makes them lead like mad. Stainless guns are even worse, often with toolmarks clear down the bore. First task is to smooth the forcing cone a bit.
Stick your finger in the forcing cone and rub it around. Owee! Pretty rough, isn't it! Fix it like this:
Take a nice big cone shaped rubber abrasive point, and chuck it in your Dremel. With the motor off, practice the motions of smoothing out the right and left halves of the forcing cone. Now fire up your dremel, and go at that forcing cone for about 7-10 seconds on each half. Sounds hazardous, but consider that the rough forcing cone is 10 times worse than any error possible in smoothing it this way.
Point a flashlight through the barrel and look for tooling marks. If the bore is shiny bright with no marks, you win, because your barrel was cut with a sharp tool. If the bore shows any toolmarks, do this:
Wrap some cloth around a bronze brush, dampen it slightly with some Hoppes or something else light, and run it back and forth in the bore to form a tight-fitting solid cloth lap. add a dab of Simichrome, Flitz, Maas, or JB and run the lap back and forth a hundred times. Clean the bore and you're done. Funny thing about this method is that it is how fine rifle builders used to finish their barrels. Once magazines and the internet came around they stopped admitting it. If you think about it until your head hurts, you'll realize that the supposed lead lap wouldn't work as well as the cloth one.
You can also take the gun all to pieces and polish the crap out of the hammer and trigger if like. The action will get buttery smooth without damaging anything. If you really want to get a fine trigger, you need to use a file on the hammer and transfer bar after staring at them hard enough to understand why they are the two critical parts.
I have done these things many times, and I've compared the results to fire-lapping, and my way is better and safer. The fact that the fire-lappers, FLGR naysayers, and jacketed SD shooters are still alive is proof of the non-existence of the deity.