Post #19,
Back in 1976, I had a Ruger BH .357, had showed it to a neighbor who'd never seen one. Sitting in the living room, unloaded it was handed to Chuck, he looked it over good, checked everything out and said he might have to get one like it. Having handed it back, I reloaded it, flipped the gate shut on the cylinder and "gently" eased the hammer down until it stopped, thinking it was against the revolver frame. I took my thumb off the hammer, took my finger out of the trigger guard and was setting it onto the floor BOOM, just that quick. Chuck saw what happened, said he saw my thumb in relation to the hammer and finger to trigger, thought everything was cool. I took the BH back to the dealer, had it shipped back to Ruger. Three weeks later, revolver and a letter from Ruger arrive at the dealer, "Note: on the hammer spur was a very rough edge not totally polished off before shipping, did cause hammer to hang up, could cause terrible accident!" Needless to say, the revolver never came home with me again, I sold it to another customer who wanted it worse than I did. Luckily the fired round went through 5 books in a bookshelf and into the wooden floor.