Taurus 650 Primer issue
Hey guy's I'm not quite sure the best way to explain/describe the issue, but here it goes, after firing a single round out of my Taurus 650 the cylinder refuses to turn so I'm unable to fire another round, it takes a significant amount of force to get the cylinder itself to pop out, upon inspecting the round I just fired the area surrounding the primer strike has been pushed out and it essentially looks like a donut circling the primer strike. It sticks out maybe 1mm or less but it's enough to prevent the cylinder from turning and or popping the cylinder out of the gun without significant force. I saved the round in question but it seems to be eluding me at this moment, this has happened a total of 3 times, at first I thought it might simply be the ammunition I was using, but I've tried it with 3 different types of ammo both .38 & .357 and it's happened each and every time. I'm more than likely going to send the gun into Taurus for repairs but I was curious if you guys had any ideas as to why this would be happening? Could the firing pin be striking the primer with too much force which in turn is causing the area surrounding the primer strike to pop out? Anyways I was just curious what your guy's take on this might be.
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Send it back. Sounds like the firing pin is too long and/or undersized. Sometimes light loads will generate high primers sticking out from the case head because there isn't enough pressure to back the case out to the frame, but that doesn't sound like your issue.
You could inspect the firing pin area of the frame. Look for damage from excessive dry firing (pouched out metal) or a divot from bad machining. Then if it works like a smith, open the cylinder, push the latch to the closed position and hold it there with your thumb. Cock the hammer, squeeze the trigger (on non hammerless let the hammer down with your other thumb). Keep trigger pulled, inspect the firing pin protrusion and fit.0 -
You should mark it, to see if it's only one of the chambers causing the problem.
If it is? My WAG, is the chamber is oversized. Causing the brass to back out. Tieing up the revolver.
Taurus's quality control on some of their guns. Leaves a lot to be desired. Years ago I had one of their early production Judges. That hadn't been quality controlled properly, or at all prior to leaving the factory. Total POS, from the get go.0 -
When you are inspecting the firing pin look to see if the hole it comes through is oversized for the diameter of the pin. This may give the primer metal a place to "flow" into under pressure. Unless Taurus has changed its customer service you may have quite a wait for your gun to return. 0
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