S&W 442 sparks like a flint!!

[Triberg]

I noticed that I throw a spark about a quarter inch out of my firing pin hole when I dry fire my 442. Gun shoots/functions great--is this a new type of survival tool

What the hell?

 

[ARTiger]

My 642 does the same thing. Makes for a good camping carry . . . backup gun and firestarter all in one

 

[MrTuffPaws]

What? That is the strangest thing I have heard in a while and if ARTiger did not speak up, I would have chalked it up to a April's fool thread.

I bet that would be fun with a magnesium frame

 

[Triberg]

Yes, I sh-t you not. My gun throws a significant spark!

 

[Warner]

I never told ANYONE about this happening with mine. And I was concerned that if I ever tried to actually SHOW it happening to anyone - it wouldn't.

It really does happen, and it's not April 1st anymore!

W

 

[NailGun]

Wow. That's funny....Mine must be defective. No Spark!
Oh! I know! It is that satanic S&W trigger lock that is inhibiting the spark!
I assume that every time I pull the trigger and there is NO spark, God redirects the spark to kill a kitten.....cool.

NailGun

 

[popeye]

My new 432 sparks also. I sent it back to S&W today for various problems. I was gonna mention sparking, but I can't get it to spark every time.

 

[HighVelocity]

I wondered why the room always smells like an oil fire when I dry practice with my 642.

 

[Radagast]

My 640 sparked as well.

 

[DMK]

My 642 does it too.

 

[SnWnMe]

It goes away After a few thousand dry fires. Snap away.

 

[1BLINDREF]

I just tried it with my 642-2 and I don't get a spark. I tried it with the cylinder open and closed.
Should I send it back because its defective?

 

[SnWnMe]

If you can "fire" your 642 with the cylinder open then you might have to send it back

 

[Triberg]

I think I'll try to load up my cylinders with ball/black powder. Should work just fine....S&W is really onto something here. Quite a multidimensional firearm.

 

[loser123]

My 342-1 throws a little blue spark when I dry fire it too. I thought I was crazy when I first saw it.

 

[Warner]

Hope we don't have to start up a "spark" club now

 

[huntershooter]

I did find a flint in the lock mechanism of my 642............

 

[norfdet893]

should I start loading my 640/638/637/442 from the front end? Maybe they could release a mode where there ejector rod is removable and also doubles as a ramrod. A multi-caliber, multifunctional self-defense camping tool/civil re-enactment handgun all in one. I bet they would release it in a pelican case with a blue or grey felt hat and hard-tac wrapped in foil and a coffee packet. The civil war survival kit.

 

[Bula]

Guy's, think of all the money you could save by not seating primers on your reloads!

 

[Triberg]

If I could only get a few more inches out of the spark--it would be one heck of a stun gun.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

Now I want sparks!!!!!! My M638 doesn't make sparks!

 

[Mr.Revolverguy]

My 642 doesn't, I feel left out.

 

[jt1]

My 642 only sparks out of the front.

 

[MassMark]

I feel left out...no sparky on the 642....darn....I never get to have any fun....

 

[amprecon]

My 442 does, from the firing pin hole it jumps forward to the back of the cylinder.