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He would have to be very very old to go back to the days of not carrying a round under the hammer.

More likely he saw the scene in The Shootist where JW said not to carry a round under the hammer and too that to apply to all revolvers. So many people take what they see in movies as the gospel.
Yeabut the real clincher.. "All handguns should be carried without a round in the chamber". The poor dolt.
 
Tried the same on a Ruger Redhawk 7 1/2" 44mag during a trigger job and it failed to fire with a light spring. Luckily the next heavier spring worked fine. Now it goes boom every time. Guns are supposed to do that, right?

I'm jealous that you have a Redhawk!!

Goes boom every time???? Hmmm, sounds like a good concept. Maybe soon they make a companion pill for Viagra?
 
Not necessarily stupid, but ignorant? Yes.

Ignorance is when you don't know something. Stupidity is when someone teaches their opinions as facts. Just sayin. A level of enlightenment required to teach a subject is to know what you don't know. If both sides of an issue are brought up, then a discussion can be started, and free people can choose!!!
 
Wow. Firing pin block, transfer bars...

Revolvers are dangerous. That's why the first thing I do before I let a new shooter use one is put a piece of paper over it and show them what cylinder gap can do and why your hands stay away from there.

Then again, I shoot a GP100....
 
I once shot my m-10 till the main spring wore-out. That last 1000 rounds felt like glass. I moved-up to 44 Spl, the N-series was way too large for the average hand and so I dropped down to the 44 Bulldog and the 1911A1. Both worked well, for a while, I moved to the Chief's Special and a Detective Special, no joy there
 
I hate to show my age, but back when the first Colts were percussion revolvers there was the practice of only loading, or only capping 5 chambers, so the hammer wasn't resting on a primed chamber. :eek: And later many revolvers had the firing pin on the face of the hammer. Resting the hammer on a live cartridge wasn't considered a safe practice either. :rolleyes: :p
 
I have a question, If you put the magazine in your revolver backwards, will it shoot at you when you pull the trigger?
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I suspect the instructor may have been a old guy that is trapped in the past.

Hey! I'm an old guy and we all know that except for some single action guns that revolvers don't work that way. I suspect he was a young guy that was not around back in the era when wheel guns were the norm.
 
wow, ignorant people teaching the ignorant. a revolver will never ftf or fte. leave it in a nightstand until the bullets turn green and it will likely still fire. it makes me sad to admit I was born in arizona.

I was raised in and lived in
AZ up until I retired to OR and I received my first CCW there and didn't encounter any stupid instructors like that. Being from AZ had nothing to do with it the instructor was probably from CA or PA or some other inebriated state. You make ME sad you were born in AZ. Think before you speak or type in this case!
Gabby
 
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not entirely true.. someone can mess up a revolver mainspring or strain screw and it's possible to get ftf.
Ignorant instructor alright but......
All mechanical devices can fail. Revolvers are no exception. They can fail to fire too when you need them most. Chewing gum, lint and whatnot gooing up the cylinder for example, for you ladies with messy purses!:s0123: :s0084:

As you all have said, modern revolvers have eliminated the need to not have a round under the hammer though.
 

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