Lesson to everyone, do not do what you see guys in movies do, and my painful lesson

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It took guts to fest up the first time. To bump it after 6 months shows a real desire to help others in addition to guts. Bravo, sir...


On a related note, has that bullet wound you received from drug dealers while you were saving puppies, kittens and babies been impressing anyone pretty? Come on, you can tell us. :evil:
 
Lets see, my favorite firearms related injury (other than closing a Glock slide on my finger...in the ejection port no less) would have to be standing in the wrong place while shooting skeet. I was standing to the right of the launcher, which had been chucking low shots all day. Well, I gave the pull command without thinking about line of fire of the launcher...sure enough, I caught a clay disc square in the back. I wore that bruise for a week.
 
Ant Mod, I had an AD with a Python with similar results.:eek: So I salute you for posting it, and the cool pic of your 686 with the fireball! If even one person reads it and avoids that situation, your temporary humiliation (and ill-treatment by some Low Roaders in this thread) will be worth it. Not to mention the neat story you'll be telling the rest of your life!:p
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Go ahead and laugh; I don't care!

Just what, exactly, is a cylinder gap? Is it just that tolerance between the cylinder and the rest of the gun, when the cylinder is closed?
 
Just what, exactly, is a cylinder gap? Is it just that tolerance between the cylinder and the rest of the gun, when the cylinder is closed?
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The gap between the cylinder and the barrel when the cylinder is closed.
 
Persnickety: Yup. When the cylinder is closed there is a gap between the face of the cylinder and the breech. A percentage of the burning gases will take the path of least resistance and blow out through the gap instead of helping the bullet on down the barrel. We are talking hot, high pressure and full of as yet unburnt powder.
Luckily I learned this with a S&W .22 revolver. Cupped the pistol with my left had near the cyclinder and got a nasty burn out of it!:eek:
 
Also the reason why a revolver cannot be silenced contrary to popular hollywood myths.
 
Is not the forcing cone between the cylinder and the barrel?

Anyway, I have been painfully hit in the hand by debris from a fired revolver .357 rounds. Apparently bits of unburned powder and bullet residue blast out and about.
 
The forcing cone is the first part of the barrel. It is designed to 'catch' the bullet as it rips loose from the cartridge. The bullet at the start of its journey is larger in diameter than the rifled part of the barrel, so the forcing cone squishes the copper or lead down in diameter, this keeps the pressure from the burning gases sealed behind the bullet. After the forcing cone the bullet enters the rifled part of the barrel where it starts to spin.
 
Shermacman, thanks for the explanation.

I seem to recall that the heavier 158 grain .357 Mag seem more of a problem than lighter rounds. And, I am talking about using conventional one and two hand grip holds, and still getting pelted with debris on occasion.
 
Also the reason why a revolver cannot be silenced contrary to popular hollywood myths.
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Not entirely true. There are gas-locked revolvers like Nagants upon which suppressors can be mounted and used successfully.
 
Yes, but they're rare.

Another emphasis of the Barrel Cylinder Gap. (Where did that great pic come from, BTW?)
Notice how the bright gases are seen flourescing far outside the BSG, in the top of the red circle.

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Not entirely true. There are gas-locked revolvers like Nagants upon which suppressors can be mounted and used successfully.
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Yes your right. There is an exception if you count one revolver that was obsolete over 60 years ago and was never considered a great success besides being an ingenious design.

And smoking causes lung cancer then you die early, except for George Burns he smoked stogies his whole life and lived into his 90's so the statement about smoking is not entirely true.
 
thats just gotta hurt....I saw a guy shoot a 12 gauge buckshot load 1 handed by bracing the buttstock partway in an unforgiving area of his hip- imatating an early bronson flick.he got the message to never try that one again.glad youre ok aside some minor injuries.I did that one too with a long barreled h&r western revolver..bracing it against a tree and holding the barrel just front of the cylinder for steadiness.chaulk it up as an experience point.
 
That great "flash" photo posted above is our own illustrious P95Carry firing his .454 Taurus Raging Lunatic.


As for the Russian Nagant gas sealing revolver...
The cylinder moves forward so the brass cartridge case, which completely encloses the bullet and also protrudes out of the front of the cylinder, can enter into the barrel so there is no barrel cylider gap.

The down side is that the cylinder movement is limited. If it moved too much you'd have excess headspace on the back end of the cylinder.
Thus the Nagant design is limited to moderate pressure ammunition.
 
Seems to me

that the picture of the revolver would make an excellent background for my icons

Now, a question from the totally computer illiterate...is there some easy way to load that into the computer and use it???

and to Ant...thanks for the info. If everybody were as smart as they should be, the hospital emergency rooms would be empty and life would be less interesting
 
I treated a dentist who rested a .357 in his hands for stability. He laid both sides (thumb and forefinger) open from the pressure wave coming out of the cyl/bbl gap. I always carry first aid supplies to the range. I still love revolvers though. I get my best accuracy from them.
 
Funny stuff guys! "Hold my beer..." hee hee hee.

To those of you who think this speaks poorly of revolvers, can we hear some of what has happened to you before someone warned you to not hold your off hand on the back of the slide of an autoloader while firing? I've been accidentially bit a couple of times from that boneheaded move, but never been burned at the gap.

Best be careful of that hole in the front of the gun as well! Them there bees coming out of it can be nasty critters.

Who says this discussion group is losing its flavor?
 
heh.

If you've ever stood next to someone firing a revolver, especially a magnum revolver, at a range you know how much hot gas, concussion and lead splash comes out sideways. Its annoying.
 
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