Most posts to those 3 comms fail, but sometimes that’s lemmy errors. Anyway.
Rough Rider .22 revolver. Shells on the right are spent, left are unfired. Cylinder won’t rotate after the 3rd shot because the shells deform and poke up. Hell is that? It’s like they fire, bounce back and crumple, which doesn’t seem physically possible.
Sure seems like that’s happening when shooting it. Tested 5 cylinders, .22 and .22WMR, all the same results. Scarily, I can feel some back blast from the more powerful .22WMR, which again shouldn’t be possible.
Took it apart for some deep cleaning the other night, didn’t see anything weird, put it back together. Still fails. And this is the 3rd such gun I’ve owned, not my first rodeo.
All ammo, all cylinders. Taking it out in a bit and holding the cylinder tight against the gun when I fire. Bet money that works, not sure where to go from there.
There’s two things that could get it acting right that I can think of: Replace the cylinder (expensive, may not work but might) Shim it i.e. find a washer with internal diameter of cylinder pin or smaller and rut it out to the right diameter, then file it down to the width that takes the play out ( couple issues with this, one it’ll increase the flash gap i.e. bigger halos, reduced velocity and increased leading, two potential annealing of the makeshift shim with the fram of the gun) Let us know how it goes