Most posts to those 3 comms fail, but sometimes that’s lemmy errors. Anyway.
Rough Rider .22 revolver. Shells on the right are spent, left are unfired. Cylinder won’t rotate after the 3rd shot because the shells deform and poke up. Hell is that? It’s like they fire, bounce back and crumple, which doesn’t seem physically possible.
Sure seems like that’s happening when shooting it. Tested 5 cylinders, .22 and .22WMR, all the same results. Scarily, I can feel some back blast from the more powerful .22WMR, which again shouldn’t be possible.
Took it apart for some deep cleaning the other night, didn’t see anything weird, put it back together. Still fails. And this is the 3rd such gun I’ve owned, not my first rodeo.
I can dry fire and spin the cylinder all night long. Fucked with it watching a movie before and after cleaning it, will 5 different cylinders.
Once you get it fixed, remember to use snap caps when dry-firing anything rimfire. The firing pin can hit the chamber and fuck things up. It isn’t an issue with center-fire (including rimmed center-fire like .357 Mag or 7.62x54R), since the pin just goes down the barrel on a dry fire, but there isn’t much space between the pin and shoulder on a rim-fire.
Got snap caps for almost all my guns! Love 'em! This model has a hammer-block safety. That’s safe to dry fire, yes? Never hits the firing pin.
Oh, yeah, that’s probably fine. I didn’t expect it to, given the price.
There is something wrong with the firearm itself. I’d contact heritage. Thankfully these guns are stupid cheap. So they might just replace the thing completely.