Originally Posted by 260Remguy

I'd also recommend that you consider sending your S&W 69 to Ahlman's in Morristown, MN, to be turned and to have the forcing cone reamed. The $70 that they charge for an "action job" tune up is one of the best values anywhere and the $15 that they charge to ream the forcing cone eliminates the possibility of lead shaving. I send all of my "shooter" revolvers to Ahlman's for those 2 jobs and haven't met anyone yet who had that work done and didn't think that it was money well spent.

www.ahlmans.com

Waste of money. If your timing is off enough to be spitting lead, you aren't fixing anything by reaming the forcing cone.

Last edited by dla; 10/09/19.