Sticking Cases

[WarpathEngineering]

Hello everyone,

I think I know where this is going but I thought I'd ask anyway. I bought my wife a stainless single six for her birthday back in January. As soon as it arrived (bought online) we saw that the barrel was noticeably canted for which it was returned to the factory and a new barrel was installed. This weekend we went out and shot it for the first time but ran into a couple of problems. 3 of the chambers were "sticky" trying to remove the spent case, one being so difficult that she couldn't do it herself and I almost had to put the but of the gun on the table to force the spent case out. This was from a clean cold gun, not after a hundred rounds. Investigating further, the "stuck" chamber had a tendency to "drag" as the cylinder was rotated with a new round installed. Other chambers showed signs of firing pin marks on the rim of the counterbore that holds the cartridge rim. Anyone experiencing any of this. I think that it needs another trip to Ruger.

 

[David Bradshaw]

WarpathEngineering... When tolerances accumulate in the right direction, you have a shooter. When tolerances accumulate in the wrong direction, you have a club.

To go by your description, it sounds like the remedy is for Ruger to scrap your Single-Six and log you a new one. For starters, when the barrel is visibly crooked, that is not a cheery sign.
David Bradshaw

 

[contender]

Another polite call to Ruger is in order.

 

[WarpathEngineering]

WarpathEngineering... When tolerances accumulate in the right direction, you have a shooter. When tolerances accumulate in the wrong direction, you have a club.

To go by your description, it sounds like the remedy is for Ruger to scrap your Single-Six and log you a new one. For starters, when the barrel is visibly crooked, that is not a cheery sign.
David Bradshaw

Dave, I'm afraid your right. I gave Ruger a call and it's on it's way back. I think I got a real lemon this time. What's the odds they'd swap it out? The problem is, it was a KNR-4 and there not all that easy to come by.

 

[David Bradshaw]

WarpathEngineering... In returning your wife's Single-Six to factory, you have started on the path to peace. I don't know much about code designations for models. If it were my gun, I'd ask that it be replaced by one I would really enjoy shooting. I would not ask for a model not available.

I would get down on bended knee and plead, "Please send me a beautifully assembled revolver, one with the barrel threads correctly timed and the barrel barely snugged up----not torqued by Goriila Monsoon."

To that end, I would keep in contact with the Service Dept.
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I have seen Smith & Wesson, Ruger, and lesser make revolvers with the barrel on crooked. The worst were from S&W under the reign of Bangor-Punta----some revolvers you couldn't get close to paper. Remarkably, S&W also made at that time spectacularly fine revolvers.

As for rifles with the receiver and action cockeyed, Remington, Winchester, and nearly all the rest are guilty. "Truing" and "blueprinting" are serious aftermarket bread and butter work. And a reason Burris introduced its excellent Signature ZEE scope rings.
David Bradshaw