NEVER DO THIS....Revolver Edition

hey everybody Jerry Miculek here the title of the video is never do this someone will show you the proper way to do things with the revolver I'm going on 30 years as a professional revolver shooter which is kind of a very niche market but anyway what I've seen in my in my days of competition the guys handled every Volvos incorrectly and what happens to the gun itself you just beat it to death because you handle it incorrectly you have to remember this is just a machined piece of steel it's like anything else you take out you can take a nail and bend it you can do the same thing to a firearm you can put stress on it that you don't really need to so to begin with to correctly open a revolver you never want to thrust on the cylinder before you hit the thumb latch okay that sounds really what what do you mean okay if I push on the cylinder really hard and I haven't started the thumb latch yet what you do you're gonna swipe that center pin through the fit in the frame see where the center pin fits in the frame this side of the frame this side of the hole you're talking that center pin before you hit the settlement release every time you do that you popping that pin through that hole and you're swiping the back side of the frame I've seen some really good guns destroyed that way so common sense would tell you to start the cylinder latch long before you thrust on the cylinder that's one thing you want to always do push this push the cylinder latch then open the cylinder and another thing you want to do on the cylinder you always want to try to open it from the top and not the bottom if you push on the bottom of the cylinder and you don't let it turn you're gonna swipe it you're gonna swipe that cylinder stop right on the back side of the cylinder notch on the cylinder and you can see that's the most shallow part of the cylinder stop is the back side so when you're thrust on it and you don't let the cylinder rotate when you open it it's got to swipe itself through that fit and you're going to soon round that part off off or you gonna burn it to a point to where when you shoot it real quick the cylinder and stop comes up hits that notch and it jumps around and you got a cylinder that'll turn and skip a charge hole so the correctly open your cylinder push on the cylinder stop first and push on the top of this not on the bottom let it roll out doesn't sound like much but when you do it 10,000 20,000 times like you went on a competition gun you'll beat up parts of the gun that you don't need to so okay that's how you open the cylinder and how to close it correctly when you look at a 45 ACP gun like this you notice it's got big ammunition so what does that mean it's extremely heavy ammunition they weigh 230 grains apiece so when you go to close it if it's fully loaded and you do the old I'm really tough guy watching me slap my cell on the shut for no reason other than it looks good and I slam it like this and it's rotating with all that ammunition in it and it's going to rotate this way and you notice again you go to beat up the shallow side of your cylinder stop knotch okay because that all that ammunition is fitting the cylinder spinning it's going to find that cylinder stop and you're hitting it on the shallow side of the stop in the cylinder and you go to bird you're going to beat that cylinder out if you look at this cylinder itself it's probably got 50,000 rounds in it and it's really serviceable and what you want to realize when Smith & Wesson manufactures over revolver what they trying to do is to have a point between the cell Derby and very durable and also not making it frangible to the point to where if you do a double charge or you have a bad round of ammunition and the cylinder would you over stress the cylinder with an excessive charge this thing does not fragment like a hand grenade so they take that into account when they manufacture the cylinder so this is a compromise between me and extremely hard and extremely brittle so it's just a machine piece of metal take care of it and it'll take care of you so anyway so there you have it guys never have a fully loaded cylinder or any cylinder and ever just swipe it you see guys do I'm not even gonna do it to my gun it's so abusive they just flip it closed some kind of Dick Tracy thing you've seen TV is horrible about gun Hamming that's the worst thing to do to a revolver it's a very precision fitted instrument you want to treat it that way so when I close it if I'm doing my fastest reloads I'm never putting any rotational stress on the cylinder I'm just gonna close it you'll roll your hand on it as you're closing it that's one thing I don't like about not changing grips when you do a reload you have a tendency to do the load and you slap it shut like this and you're rotating it against the shallow side of the cylinder stopped by rotating it this way as you close it one thing I like about doing the two-handed reload is when I go to close it I can contain the cylinder and I just close it and it doesn't sound like much until you do it 10 20 30 40 thousand times so so there you have it guys and if you want to draw fire your gun these are these are the new generation Smith & Wesson's if you look at the hammer there's no hammer nose on it or firing pin affixed to the hammer it's gonna be mounted in the frame so if you want to draw fire your gun like I do a lot either you get the correct snap cap in the caliber that the revolver is chambered in or if you do like I do Mike do it periodically you take you an old cleaning patch put it between a hammer and the frame and it cushions the blow to the hammer to the frame but you gotta remember to take it out I remember going to steel challenge one year and I showed up on the line and my first run I forgot to take my snap cap out of the frame and there I was no gun anyway there you have it guys the correct way to handle a revolver it's a very precision instrument you take care of it it takes care of you 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Channel: Jerry Miculek - Pro Shooter

Views: 523,179

Rating: 4.9573059 out of 5

Keywords: Jerry, Miculek, speed, shooting, fast, quick, draw, reload, reloading, world, record, smith, wesson, ruger, colt, gun, guns, firearms, firearm, tactical, assault, ar15, ar, 15, ak47, m16, m4, rifle, shotgun, pistol, handgun

Id: XkWlIhaeuaY

Length: 5min 57sec (357 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 08 2020