MigGunslinger
Red Skull Member
Went to the woods with some friends and family the other day and we had a pretty alarming issue with a Dan Wesson .357, don't know the model but I'd say it has a 4" barrel, blued, nice wood grip. I think Hickok45 did a video on an almost identical one.
One of the shooters on the line got hit with what we thought was a ricochet fragment which actually drew blood on the shoulder but nothing too bad. 4 people shot other guns at the same time so we could not narrow it down to the revolver. The second time the same guy (who owns the gun) got tagged again on the forehead, again blood but nothing serious. Both times the person hit was behind and to the side of the shooter, right and left side at what should be a safe distance from someone shooting a .357. The shooter in all cases was untouched. We recovered a fragment from the owners forehead which was lead and whatever the bullet jacket is made of, Copper?
Of course we brought it off the line and started looking at everything. The gun was dirty but operating smoothly, the cylinder stop looked fine, the notches in the cylinder had a bit of wear but who knows? the cylinder had a little perceptible wiggle but I don't know if there is a spec on that.
Ammunition was Blazer Brass JHP which was bought for this trip, we obviously did not just load up another type and try it out.
What should we do with this thing? I have built a couple 80% ARs and a weld build AK so of course everybody looks at me. My first inclination is that the cylinder is somehow mistimed or there is excessive gap between cylinder and barrel. Is there anything we can check at home like barrel clearance with feeler gauges or something, or should it go straight to a qualified gunsmith? Clean it up and throw some different ammo in it and test fire it looking like and EOD guy? What Would Irate Do?
One of the shooters on the line got hit with what we thought was a ricochet fragment which actually drew blood on the shoulder but nothing too bad. 4 people shot other guns at the same time so we could not narrow it down to the revolver. The second time the same guy (who owns the gun) got tagged again on the forehead, again blood but nothing serious. Both times the person hit was behind and to the side of the shooter, right and left side at what should be a safe distance from someone shooting a .357. The shooter in all cases was untouched. We recovered a fragment from the owners forehead which was lead and whatever the bullet jacket is made of, Copper?
Of course we brought it off the line and started looking at everything. The gun was dirty but operating smoothly, the cylinder stop looked fine, the notches in the cylinder had a bit of wear but who knows? the cylinder had a little perceptible wiggle but I don't know if there is a spec on that.
Ammunition was Blazer Brass JHP which was bought for this trip, we obviously did not just load up another type and try it out.
What should we do with this thing? I have built a couple 80% ARs and a weld build AK so of course everybody looks at me. My first inclination is that the cylinder is somehow mistimed or there is excessive gap between cylinder and barrel. Is there anything we can check at home like barrel clearance with feeler gauges or something, or should it go straight to a qualified gunsmith? Clean it up and throw some different ammo in it and test fire it looking like and EOD guy? What Would Irate Do?