Loading 5 in a revolver

[Pat Riot]

I had it ingrained into my mind to load 5 in SA revolvers when doing Cowboy Action Shooting.
After leaving that sport for a long time I would load 5 in my SA’s and 6 in my DA’s.
I got over that and now load the cylinder full in all of them. My SA’s were all Ruger Vaqueros.
If I am doing load testing I will set up each load in 5 cartridges as it just makes it easier in a 50 round ammo box.

 

[Slamfire]

What about the rebound slide under the hammer toe?

Must not have been a positive block, as known discharges with this model are why the lock works were redesigned. I would have to take the mechanism apart to test this, and I won't, but I think a hard enough blow to the hammer would force that block down.

 

[halfmoonclip]

Must not have been a positive block, as known discharges with this model are why the lock works were redesigned. I would have to take the mechanism apart to test this, and I won't, but I think a hard enough blow to the hammer would force that block down.

You really need to see the innards of a S&W revo, just to appreciate how clever it is, and how the hammer block was added to the same mechanism.
For a discharge, things would need to actually break (either the hammer axle or the hammer itself where it engages the rebound slide). Driftwood Johnson is of the opinion that it could, and did, happen, and, under the wrong circumstances, it could.
Moon

 

[Jim Watson]

Can you picture John Wayne playing a guy named Amos?

John Wayne always played John Wayne, only the plot changed. There are actors you can lose sight of in the role, but he isn't one of them.

 

[Jim Watson]

S&W M&P evolved, as I recall 1900 and 1902 had rebound levers, 1905 to date have rebound slides. The 1905 4th change in 1915 got a "flag" hammer block, then a different flag, then in 1945 the improved sliding block still in use.

Colt double actions got the Positive Safety hammer block around 1908, plus or minus depending on the model. Hence model names like "Pocket Positive" and "Police Positive." I guess Army Special Positive and New Service Positive would not have sounded as smooth, so they didn't get renamed when they got the hammer block.
I have read that the Colt Positive Safety is more positive than S&W flag blocks but is not as physically strong as a properly working flag.

Everybody talks about the flag block being stuck out of engagement by dried grease. Wouldn't a torture test of a flag block with free movement be fun.

 

[P5 Guy]

Load 5? Just because that is all they hold.



696, 60, and 60-4

 

[Slamfire]

Odd that your 1952 made gun doesn't have the across the board drop safety developed and installed during WWII.

I am going to have to check the mechanism to see if it has a later drop safety. If it does, then it is the one of three of my five screws with the improved lockworks.