i can't believe I did something this stupid !!

[BirthdayBoy]

Kevin, as a person very new to firearms, I am now informed and determined never to allow this to happen to me.... Thanks for swallowing your pride and posting about your experience!

 

[sloppyjoec]

OK, so say my gun does go "click", than what?
Do you guys carry a lingth of rod to poke down the barrel? (is this the "range rod" that i hear of sometimes) or take it out of battery (swing the cylender out of a revolver) and look down it ? the latter seems like a good way to make the RO pretty upset¿

 

[theNoid]

Lesson learned, but you still have 3 weeks so can't you just get another barrel installed? Can't be that much money and time to do it I wouldn't think.

Noidster

 

[plexreticle]

Cheap lesson indeed.

 

[FLORIDA KEVIN]

My favorite Ruger is on it's way back to the Ruger factory in New Hamshire !thanks for all the encouragement guys ! Yes I was encouraged by the fact that this revolver was not only intact but functional after the incident ! Yes it was indeed a cheap lesson ! i asked Ruger to examine the gun and give me an estimate for replacing the barrel with a 9 1/2 inch ! i probably could have bobbed the barrel back to about 5 1/2 inches , but thats not what I wanted !I will try to post a picture of the barrel later it looks like a snake that swallowed a rabbit !

 

[FLORIDA KEVIN]

i got a letter from Ruger the other day , the bill for repairing my SRH is gonna be $325.00 ! Oh well ! Stupidity should be expensive ! I learned a valuable lesson ! and I am just thankful nobody got hurt ! If I had been shooting anything else I might not have enough gun left to repair !

 

[19-3Ben]

Indeed. A testiment to the strength of the design and the fact that you have chosen wisely.
$325.00 is a very cheap lesson to learn.