S&W cylinder takedown
Just a few pondering thoughts about a procedure I'm sure most of us have done more than once.
Understanding it has been SOP to place a few spent shells into the cylinder prior to turning the assembly off the ejector rod, how much actual benefit is there in the practice? Given the tight tolerances of the star/ejector and the alignment pins, do the cases actually help? The cases allow for a lot of room using a soft construction to boot. Seems the edges of the star would have to give way and the pins would suffer before the slack in the brass would be taken up and come into play.
This came up in conversation a few nights ago. Not having a revolver to pull apart at the lodge a few of us were left trying to recall the procedure from memory. Had us all doing this ->
Then this after a while ->
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