Texasred
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Last year, I found a LNIB model 65 at a local pawnshop. My wife noticed how much I oggled it and later went back and bought it for me. Well, I ended up shooting about 150 .38spc reloads that I made up for it and called it good. I took it out one day with .357 magnum and went to fire when I noticed the "hand?" that rotates the cylinder from the back was dragging across the rear of the cases and primers binding it up. So then something struck me odd. Nowhere on the gun is it labeled .357 magnum. Not on the barrel, no where. So that kind of scared me. I'm active duty currently so my wife sent it in to Smith. She said the gun came back (7 months and them "losing" the gun in their shop). I'm going back home in two weeks and then I can take pictures. But unfortunately, I was never able to bring this to the attention of the shop. Now I'm wondering, if this is a factory defect. If it was binding with the .357s because maybe the cylinder was a .38's. The gun is clearly labeled 65-4 and the serial number matches the box. The box says that it is a .357 magnum. What's going on here?