Yup. My sister was having trouble with her newly purchased SP101, her first revolver (finally beginning to lose confidence in that dreadful Jennings .22 auto).
She was having some misfires, and after some troubleshooting we have surmised her tennis elbow was causing a reflexive action that would occasionally take the mechanism out of time. Inconclusive though. She may well have had a box of bad ammo, perhaps dragging on the frame some, though we could not see marks. But I have one of her unfired rounds here (Remington .38 Spl) that is boogered so bad it would not allow the cylinder to turn at all.
I don't know what the standard trigger pull is supposed to be on that piece (a bobbed hammer model) but it seemed unusually heavy to me and she is investigating having it modified.
“I don’t know what the standard trigger pull is supposed to be on that piece (a bobbed hammer model) but it seemed unusually heavy to me and she is investigating having it modified. “
A DAO trigger on one of those SPs runs about 6 lbs.
Any decent gunsmith can smooth the trigger up for less than a hundred bucks.
Your sister may have to pay a little to have a decent trigger job on the weapon, but if it's too heavy for her in double action, it's definitely worth having it done to ensure she can operate it easily, if needed.
If it just seems to catch in places during the trigger pull, I read a potentially helpful article in the June/July 2008 issue of American Handgunner. Brownell's sells a set of polishing compounds that can be dumped, cycled, then cleared through the trigger housing with mineral spirits. They say it does a great job of smoothing out the action and making the pull seem lighter. That may be an option if cost is an issue.