This is the scandium-framed, titanium cylinder .357 Magnum on the Centennial style frame.
It is a hand full of recoil with magnum loads, of course, but rated for it. 158-grain Federal Hydra-Shoks are one of the few loads that won't jump the crimp after four rounds, so I often have some of those in it and fire a few every once in a while just to impress the girls.
Anyway, on its most recent outing this past weekend, I fired a dozen .38 Specials through it and then a couple Magnum Hydra-Shoks for grins. I couldn't extract the cases in the usual manner of pushing the ejector rod. After a little manly coercion I managed to instead push the entire cylinder up with the ejector rod. It even scratched the finish at the bottom corner of the cylinder opening in the frame. Pushing the cylinder back into position will cause the sidearm to act normally again, and it won't slide up without that force, but it is still just a finger force that does it.
With the cylinder back into position, the revolver dry-fires as normal, but did something break? Do I need to call S&W? I guess I will, but thought someone might have heard of this issue before.
It is a hand full of recoil with magnum loads, of course, but rated for it. 158-grain Federal Hydra-Shoks are one of the few loads that won't jump the crimp after four rounds, so I often have some of those in it and fire a few every once in a while just to impress the girls.
Anyway, on its most recent outing this past weekend, I fired a dozen .38 Specials through it and then a couple Magnum Hydra-Shoks for grins. I couldn't extract the cases in the usual manner of pushing the ejector rod. After a little manly coercion I managed to instead push the entire cylinder up with the ejector rod. It even scratched the finish at the bottom corner of the cylinder opening in the frame. Pushing the cylinder back into position will cause the sidearm to act normally again, and it won't slide up without that force, but it is still just a finger force that does it.
With the cylinder back into position, the revolver dry-fires as normal, but did something break? Do I need to call S&W? I guess I will, but thought someone might have heard of this issue before.