The strange story of a stuck cylinder of my almost new Ruger Vaquero

[JLA]

thats got bling, and a target barrel. veeeery niiiiice!

[Big Shrek]

Originally Posted by The Count

...later i got a call from another guy from ruger who seemed to be more senior/a head tech guy. he listed to my story and then suggested i whack the side of the cylinder with a rubber hammer a couple times. he said nothing would fire as long as the hammer was all the way down. and low and behold, after 3 good hits the cylinder came out. i got another call from ruger and after confirming the bullets were out of the gun they set up a UPS pickup for monday to take a close look of what might be the issue at the factory. i must say, pretty impressive customer service. anybody here willing to guess what the problem might be/was?

Actually, upon rethinking the issue, I wonder how well the firing pin area has been cleaned since you got it.

I ran across a Tec-9 awhile back that had so much crud built up in the FP channel
that the pin got stuck in the channel. Cleaned it out, and it works like a charm
Found quite a few older rifles that needed love there too...civilians really don't clean their tools well.

Total Dissassembly of firearms when cleaning is normal maintenance to military folks.
We don't just run a few patches thru the barrel & clean the cylinders, then wipe down the outside.
It's a total-field-strip every time we clean a firearm.

[308 at my gate]

Originally Posted by Zane71464

Man, that's nice! What Model is that...and still wondering about the barrel?

Believe it or not that was an old police revolver model 15, 38special. My brother and I bought two of these. We bought the douglas premium barrels from brownells and he did all the fitting and maching. I then took them to a gun smith here and had them reblued. The front site blade is from a Dan Wesson 357 mag. Thanks. Oh yea I forgot the jeweling my brother did also on the trigger and hammer.

[Zane71464]

Wow, Nice to say the least!