Revolver torture test!

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I know they are too good looking to torture test! much less set on fire!
 
I don't know if it's true or not but I remember hearing a story about the Ruger Security Six when it was first introduced. Before the the new revolver was made available, Bill Ruger put on a demonstration to show the strength and toughness of the new design for a group of gun writers. He had a Security Six installed with a barrel blank, mounted in a gun vise, and proceded to fire it with 6 proof loads. The barrel blank was then removed, a regular production barrel was installed, and 6 more proof loads were fired, with no discernable change or damage done to the gun.
 
The proof load trick does not tell the whole story, as far as Ruger revolvers are concerned. All you have to do is shoot them A LOT and you'll find out what breaks. After many thousands of rounds I managed to break two hammer links and wear out a transfer bar in my .45 Colt Redhawk, using standard pressure loads. Transfer bar ignition isn't all it's cracked up to be, pun intended. I have some S&W revolvers that have seen much heavier use and they don't break. The only advantage I can detect in Ruger DA revolvers is a better heat treat of the stainless cylinders in that the stop notches do not peen like they do with the S&W cylinders. And despite this, the S&W revolvers still continue to function properly. So these "torture tests" often do not tell the whole story. One strength is cleverly promoted to hide the other weaknesses.

Dave Sinko
 
Can a flaming gun dropped from an airplane hide weaknesses? Torture test baby! good pun btw
 
I was in a tree stand, wearing a Redhawk in a shoulder holster. Leaned over & it slipped out, hit the tree stand on the cylinder latch & did several flips spreading the 44mag cartridges over about 60 sq feet. Hit barrel first & stuck straight up in mud. I was about 18 feet up. I could only find 4 cartridges, did not bring any extra, a cylinder full was all I started out with. Using a fresh cut stick and TP I got the mud out of the barrel and continued hunting. I didn't have another gun with me. Next day I did kill a deer with it, so I guess I can say "A ruger Redhawk did pass the drop test".

Maybe one day I will tell about a Remington 700 passing the test of being run over by an F150.
 
Has anyone tried and/or heard of an extensive, brutal torture test done on a revolver.
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Yes, the guns were the S&W Model 1917 & Colt Model 1917.

The torture test was called World War I.

BTW: They both passed with flying colors.

rc
 
I'd say most any revolver my uncle "Captain Compressed Load" reloads for is torture tested... "...clean it? if I do that, how will the cracks show?"

Of course he draws the line at water boarding, a fella's gotta know his limits:)
 
Torture testing and/or strength can mean 2 different things. How many thousands of rounds a gun will take before small parts will break is different from how powerful a round a gun will take without blowing up. I can't speak to the former because I have both S&W's and Rugers and love them all but I would imagine that there is a reason that Buffalo Bore and I'm sure a few others use Rugers to test high pressure rounds.
 
The guy doing this torture test has to be a few flakes shy of a full bowl. I'm not a Glock guy, but I sure as hell wouldn't subject any firearm to the kind of BS he's done here.
 
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