Taurus Tracker 45LC
How could the yoke (the thing that holds the cylinder in alignment)become bent? user claims 10 rounds fired of 800fps
did this deed.
did this deed.
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Is the yoke the bar that goes through the center of the cylinder?
Ben
**thanks for the clarification.** I couldn't imagine bending anything else.0 -
I've heard that this problem more likely a result of flipping the cylinder open and closed rather than pushing it. 0 -
The yoke is an L shaped heavy piece of steel(usually) and it rotates about 90 degrees when the cylinder is opened. the crane goes thru the cylinder and the ejector rod goes thru the crane and the yoke. 0 -
The pressure generated by an 800 fps load will NOT cause this to happen, excepting the possibility of a metalugical flaw. I lent a S&W 586 to a friend who needed a home defense pistol after the ex husband became an issue (yes, she has a valid Illinois FOID card and I gave her basic instructions and an hour of range time to get her pointed in the right direction). While no ones idea of the reincarnation of Ed McGivern, she acquited herself quite nicely. Never even made a scrunched up nose at the chore of cleaning either! The one important thing I left out of the instructional mix was to ignore what you see people doing with guns on TV. I got a call from her about a month later stating that the cylinder would not close. After inspecting the pistol and determining it had not been fed hot ammo, it came out that she had been watching NYPD Blue or some such crap show and had seen one of the actors close the cylinder with a quick rightward jerk of his wrist. She thought this looked pretty cool and sat for the rest of the night practicing the maneuover until she couldn't get the crane to fully retract into the frame.
After I quit crying, I informed her that this was not a sound practice and that in the real world, unless your left hand is gone, you use THAT to close the cylinder assembly. An innocent, albeit expensive mistake. We're still friends, and she has learned alot in the intervening time but this is still a point I bring up every time we get a few beers in us! (nice that I let it go so easily, huh?!?!).
If you send that S&W back to the factory...I'll wager you get the same response from them!
"When I cease learning...I'm dead"(Me)
"When I was 14 I used to marvel at how ignorant my old man was...by the time I was 21 I was truelly amazed at how much the old bugger had learned in the intervening 7 years!" Samuel Clemens
"History is written by winners"(Patton)
"You get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone!"(Al Capone)
"There is nothing lower than the human race...except the French" (Samuel Clemens)0 -
The pressure generated by an 800 fps load will NOT cause this to happen, excepting the possibility of a metalugical flaw. I lent a S&W 586 to a friend who needed a home defense pistol after the ex husband became an issue (yes, she has a valid Illinois FOID card and I gave her basic instructions and an hour of range time to get her pointed in the right direction). While no ones idea of the reincarnation of Ed McGivern, she acquited herself quite nicely. Never even made a scrunched up nose at the chore of cleaning either! The one important thing I left out of the instructional mix was to ignore what you see people doing with guns on TV. I got a call from her about a month later stating that the cylinder would not close. After inspecting the pistol and determining it had not been fed hot ammo, it came out that she had been watching NYPD Blue or some such crap show and had seen one of the actors close the cylinder with a quick rightward jerk of his wrist. She thought this looked pretty cool and sat for the rest of the night practicing the maneuover until she couldn't get the crane to fully retract into the frame.
After I quit crying, I informed her that this was not a sound practice and that in the real world, unless your left hand is gone, you use THAT to close the cylinder assembly. An innocent, albeit expensive mistake. We're still friends, and she has learned alot in the intervening time but this is still a point I bring up every time we get a few beers in us! (nice that I let it go so easily, huh?!?!).
If you send that S&W back to the factory...I'll wager you get the same response from them!
"When I cease learning...I'm dead"(Me)
"When I was 14 I used to marvel at how ignorant my old man was...by the time I was 21 I was truelly amazed at how much the old bugger had learned in the intervening 7 years!" Samuel Clemens
"History is written by winners"(Patton)
"You get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone!"(Al Capone)
"There is nothing lower than the human race...except the French" (Samuel Clemens)0 -
The pressure generated by an 800 fps load will NOT cause this to happen, excepting the possibility of a metalugical flaw. I lent a S&W 586 to a friend who needed a home defense pistol after the ex husband became an issue (yes, she has a valid Illinois FOID card and I gave her basic instructions and an hour of range time to get her pointed in the right direction). While no ones idea of the reincarnation of Ed McGivern, she acquited herself quite nicely. Never even made a scrunched up nose at the chore of cleaning either! The one important thing I left out of the instructional mix was to ignore what you see people doing with guns on TV. I got a call from her about a month later stating that the cylinder would not close. After inspecting the pistol and determining it had not been fed hot ammo, it came out that she had been watching NYPD Blue or some such crap show and had seen one of the actors close the cylinder with a quick rightward jerk of his wrist. She thought this looked pretty cool and sat for the rest of the night practicing the maneuover until she couldn't get the crane to fully retract into the frame.
After I quit crying, I informed her that this was not a sound practice and that in the real world, unless your left hand is gone, you use THAT to close the cylinder assembly. An innocent, albeit expensive mistake. We're still friends, and she has learned alot in the intervening time but this is still a point I bring up every time we get a few beers in us! (nice that I let it go so easily, huh?!?!).
If you send that S&W back to the factory...I'll wager you get the same response from them!
"When I cease learning...I'm dead"(Me)
"When I was 14 I used to marvel at how ignorant my old man was...by the time I was 21 I was truelly amazed at how much the old bugger had learned in the intervening 7 years!" Samuel Clemens
"History is written by winners"(Patton)
"You get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone!"(Al Capone)
"There is nothing lower than the human race...except the French" (Samuel Clemens)0 -
I see nimrods do that all the time at the shop where I work part time. You can tell they learned all their gun handling techniques from the TV. When I tell them not to close the cylinder like that, they get offended. TOO BAD. They can shop somewhere else where Gangstah Gun Handling is cool!
Chris8161
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