My .357 Revolver was just relieved of any service duty

[Army]

Ummm...Cartridges, not "shells".

A cartridge is fixed ammunition that propels a single solid projectile.

A "shell" is a projectile made of multiple parts.


Pistols and revolvers use "cartridges". Shotguns and artillery use "shells".




....and I still say it was the stoopid safety lock.

[bofh]

Ummm...Cartridges, not "shells".

A cartridge is fixed ammunition that propels a single solid projectile.

A "shell" is a projectile made of multiple parts.


Pistols and revolvers use "cartridges". Shotguns and artillery use "shells".

I'm curious, are shotgun slugs, cartridges or shells?

[Lohman446]

Jeez, you're a trouble magnet sometimes.

Someday I'm going to fail to make both my New Years resolutions

1) Make it to the next New Year
2) Stay out of jail

[Target Practice]

You could borrow mine.

http://www.truncatedburn.com/pics/newgun.jpg

[Lohman446]

Up until this Taurus was one of my favorite lines of guns for cheap guns. Not as nice as my Sigs for instance, but nice enough for the $$ one spent.

I will never load this gun again, regardless if they fix it or not.

There handling of the situation will determine if I will ever shoot a Taurus again.

[Thordic]

I'm not a gun person, but I would think if the hammer was stuck halfway down, you're safest bet would be to stick something underneath the hammer so it couldn't go off on its own while you figured out how to get the ammo out.

[Lohman446]

I'm not a gun person, but I would think if the hammer was stuck halfway down, you're safest bet would be to stick something underneath the hammer so it couldn't go off on its own while you figured out how to get the ammo out.

Concealed hammer, not really easy on this, though possible. Considering the result there were obviously safer ways to handle it

/Hard to say you did everything right when you are injured in the process

[Crighton]

So you basically had it held flat on a table or some such with your hand and it went off?

Did it go off when you put it down on the table or after you had it held there for a couple seconds?

Did the hammer finally drop the final 50% of it's travel while it was on the table. I'm not 100% sure of the mechanism taurus uses for there key based safety system, but is it possible to not fully disengage the safety system and have a friction point on the hammer?

[Lohman446]

So you basically had it held flat on a table or some such with your hand and it went off?

Did it go off when you put it down on the table or after you had it held there for a couple seconds?

Did the hammer finally drop the final 50% of it's travel while it was on the table. I'm not 100% sure of the mechanism taurus uses for there key based safety system, but is it possible to not fully disengage the safety system and have a friction point on the hammer?

I was holding it in the palm of my left hand, flat. My other hand was fully away. The hammer fell teh rest of the way, at least I assume it did and caused it to go off. There is no safety (well, traditional type safety) on this revolver

[Crighton]

So the pistol predates the companies manditory child saftery key system on every gun policy?

[Lohman446]

So the pistol predates the companies manditory child saftery key system on every gun policy?

In the traditional sense, there is no traditional, thumb push safety as it is a revolver. There is a key lock system (as on all Taurus firearms), which as Army has pointed out if I had to guess at a culprit I would point at.

[TheAngryDrunkenRussian]

Ummm...Cartridges, not "shells".

A cartridge is fixed ammunition that propels a single solid projectile.

A "shell" is a projectile made of multiple parts.


Pistols and revolvers use "cartridges". Shotguns and artillery use "shells".

Thanks Army for the correction. Not use to calling them cartridges, in the Corps we called them by cailber size or dodic (I.E. 5.56 Ball or M193) or Next thing I may screw up is calling a magizine a clip. LOL

[Crighton]

In the traditional sense, there is no traditional, thumb push safety as it is a revolver. There is a key lock system (as on all Taurus firearms), which as Army has pointed out if I had to guess at a culprit I would point at.

Right on, that's what I was thinking as well. Thought it might have possibly not been fully locked or unlocked.

[Lohman446]

I dont think the Taurus rep understood me when I told him regardless of what they found I was NEVER putting a live cartridge in this firearm again.

[Hajari13]

i think you should be a hand model.