Peakbagger46
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Took my Ruger SP-101 .357 out shooting yesterday. After a couple of shots, pulling the trigger resulted in a miss-fire, or rather, the cylinder didn't rotate when the trigger was pulled.
This was followed by the hammer being almost impossible to cock by hand and the cylinder being very difficult to close (with or without shells in it). I brought the gun to a friend at a gunshop. He took one look at it and decided to send it back to Ruger for me to have them figure out what was wrong.
Not sure what broke, but nothing is apparent from the outside. I was using rather hot .38 handloads, but they weren't to .357 pressures. Perhaps something was just worn out (I believe this gun was made in the early 90's).
Disapointing for sure but it will be interesting to see what Ruger finds.
This was followed by the hammer being almost impossible to cock by hand and the cylinder being very difficult to close (with or without shells in it). I brought the gun to a friend at a gunshop. He took one look at it and decided to send it back to Ruger for me to have them figure out what was wrong.
Not sure what broke, but nothing is apparent from the outside. I was using rather hot .38 handloads, but they weren't to .357 pressures. Perhaps something was just worn out (I believe this gun was made in the early 90's).
Disapointing for sure but it will be interesting to see what Ruger finds.