FEATURE GTW
Of particular interest to gun
dealers will be the ones designed to improve the function, reliability and longevity of many fi rearms. Bob is a gun enthusiast with a
particular fondness for pistols. He has been past president
of the International Paintball Association and was once a keen cowboy-action-shooting competitor. T is discipline involves
accurately shooting metal targets for time. In ‘action-type’ disciplines, time
aff ects the fi nal score and positions. With the 1873 Colt-style revolvers being a part of the Single Action Shooting Society (SASS) scene,
getting the empty cases from the cylinder can add precious seconds, severely damaging performance. Cartridge chambers pose
manufacturing diffi culties due to their length-to-diameter ratio; it’s diffi cult to drill and ream holes four times as deep as they are wide and achieve a consistently high surface fi nish. So chambers can be relatively
‘rough’ compared with a fl at surface.
Sticky situation Unpolished commercial chambers can result in sticking cases and each sticky chamber costs time due to the increased ejection and reload times.
A range of Flex-Hones suited
to polishing the chambers of early single-action revolvers was added to the line and became an immediate success. T e advantages of slick
chambers were quickly appreciated by all pistol shooters, whether for competition use, functional reliability in semi-autos or just making the cases eject more easily. T ose who reload also found
that polishing their chambers did all of these things and also proved much kinder to their fi red cases, meaning they could get more quality reloads per brass case – it was very much a win-win situation!
Growing interest T e range of chamber sizes has gradually expanded to handle anything from .17 up to .50 BMG and, being receptive to customer demand, sizes to suit emerging popular calibres can be accommodated. Shotgun buff s and rifl e
enthusiasts alike are fi nding the use of the Flex-Hone useful. Shotguns have the advantage of
it being possible to polish the full length of the tubes. Although not suited to use in rifl ed bores, some barrel makers polish their blanks using Flex-Hones prior to cutting the rifl ing for a smoother bore fi nish.
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