Pappy John
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I got this thing from a friend and am trying to figure out if its broken or not. It seems to lock up tight and the timing is good, but when you swing out the cylinder nothing looks or acts familiar. The cylinder, when out, has a quarter of an inch of freeplay front to back. The ejector rod will only push the ejector star out a quarter of an inch...and that only occurs if you hold the cylinder to keep the freeplay from allowing the entire cylinder assembly to move back along with the star. But, there is a collar on the ejector shaft which looks like it was meant to limit the travel of the rod to this quarter inch. ?????? When re-seating the cylinder you must pull forward on the ejector rod to get the star rod plunger past the hand slot. None of this seems normal to me, but I'm only familiar with Smith's and Colt's revolvers. Can this possibly be how Charter Arms meant these to work? Or is it in serious need of repair?