Jerry Miculek demonstrates the danger of putting your finger near the cylinder gap when shooting a revolver. Finger vs Cylinder Gap
Yep, seen vids about that before, and Tom Givens demoed it in his class on target paper.
The scenario I see where this would be a problem; you're being car jacked and you hold your revolver in front of your face to shoot out the window.......don't do that.
The scenario I see where this would be a problem; you're being car jacked and you hold your revolver in front of your face to shoot out the window.......don't do that.
Wow, I never thought about that. Not too experienced with revolvers. If they could only find a way to lock the cylinder to the barrel after rotating, could you imagine the speed of the projectile afterwards?
My first handgun (at 16) was a chrome .22LR/.22Mag "Western Six" by Kimel. $40 brand new.
Amazingly accurate, but you didn't want to be standing within 4 feet beside me when I shot that thing.
Amazingly accurate, but you didn't want to be standing within 4 feet beside me when I shot that thing.
The old Nagant Revolvers did do that. But they were not very powerful cartridges like 327, 357, 41 & 44 Mag calibers.
I cant remember if it was Glocktalk or Defensivecarry, but I was roasted on a forum for mentioning it. I showed a similar vid and was still told I was wrong lol. I told em to try it with their finger and prove themselves right. Now I know that most instances I could find were large bore revolvers, but I still wouldn't want to try with a .38, etc
If you have a queezy stomach don't Google revolver thumb images.
Someone (the Mythbusters, maybe) tackled that one a few years ago, using a hotdog as a stand-in for a finger on a big-bore S&W wheelgun (I want to say it was a .500, but it has been too long). It didn't turn out well for the hotdog, BTW.
Just shoot a revolver at night, and then tell me that gas jets from the .006 cylinder gap doesn't exist.
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