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To: yarddog

I have never had that happen. Also see post #42


49 posted on 01/19/2018 2:01:07 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: MileHi

I taught skeet at The University of Southern Mississippi for two years. The range was at the Hattiesburg PD’s old firing range which was still used pretty heavily.

Sometimes when a qualification was being conducted and I was between classes, I would sit in the bleachers behind the fring range and watch them.

They were using what appeared to be S&W model 13 revolvers and after just about every string a cop would bring his revolver to the range master to clear a jam. I imagine most were a shell being caught under the extractor star but not certain.

During this time they switched to Glocks and I don’t recall seeing a single one jam after that.

I have personally had high quality revolver jam. Sometimes by short stroking the trigger in DA. Sometimes by a build up of powder etc between the cylinder and barrel. Lots of other things, too numerous to list or remember right now but they definitely do jam.


51 posted on 01/19/2018 2:13:26 PM PST by yarddog
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To: MileHi

I have had Ruger revolvers jam. It does happen. The Security Six was notorious for backing out the center pin, making it impossible to reload until the problem was fixed.

I have had high primers prevent cylinder rotation, and bullets move forward under heavy recoil and prevent cylinder rotation.

With good ammo, not much jamming. But revolvers tend to be more dirt sensitive than combat type semi-autos. A grain of sand under the rim of a cartridge can prevent the cylinder from closing, for example.

Revolvers are less ammo sensitive, overall.


53 posted on 01/19/2018 2:34:02 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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