AboutGCH Expertise I CAN answer questions related to defensive use of firearms, tactics, prudent modifications of firearms, utility of certain types of firearms. My greatest knowledge is in the area of handguns.
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I CAN NOT identify antique guns or those that are old and out-of-production. I CAN NOT tell you the value of your firearms. I CAN NOT tell you the history of your guns. I CAN NOT supply information about cheap, inherently unsafe firearms (e.g. Jimenez, Jennings, Lorcin).
Experience Primary Instructor, F2v (armed and unarmed self-defense); NRA Certified Instructor; NRA Distinguished Expert, Handgun; International Defensive Pistol Association certified Safety Officer; IDPA classified Expert, Stock Service Pistol Division; Multiple graduate, Practical Firearms Training, Tactical Carbine and Advanced Defensive Handgun; Blackwater Training Center, Advanced Skills Handgun; Insights Training Center, Defensive Folding Knife; Integrated Defensive Fighting Systems, Unarmed Defense and Fixed Blade Knife; Range qualified with local police department, handgun and shotgun; Kukkiwon Ildan Black Belt, ETS certified Self-Defense Instructor
Organizations National Rifle Association, International Defensive Pistol Association, Virginia Citizens' Defense League; Integrated Defensive Fighting Systems; Personal Defense Group
Publications Tactical Journal
Education/Credentials Bachelor's and Master's degrees; Graduate Practical Firearms Training, Handgun levels 1, 2, and 3, and Tactical Carbine; Kukiwan certified Ildan black belt.
Awards and Honors Multiple trophies from various tactical pistol competitions.
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I have a 32cal revolver with a split on a the cylinder.
do you know a place I can get another cylinder ?
Thank you Warren
Answer Since you don't mention make or model, I should let you know that gun parts are not interchangeable. For example, you can't take a cylinder from a Smith & Wesson and put it on a Colt, or a Taurus. You can't just get "another cylinder." You must get one for that make and model of gun.
Revolvers have to be carefully timed with regard to the ratchet, pawl and hand, and this is not something that an end user can do. You would need to take it to a gunsmith, which I would recommend anyway. A split cylinder is usually the result of firing and over pressured round. If this is the case, you may have damaged more than the cylinder, and the gun needs to be checked over and verified for safety before it should be used again.
