de1216
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Post by de1216 on Oct 10, 2016 19:07:52 GMT -5
New Redhawk in 45 Colt / 45 ACP arrived in my hands today. A quick trip to the range (in between other chores) was in order and got to spend no more than 30 minutes there. It feels great & looks great but had a glitch right off the bat. After the second round of the 250gr Cowboy load from Ultramax (SA) the cylinder locked up. No joy on DA trigger pull or SA cocking of the hammer. Eyeballed it closely while harsh language rolled around inside my head. Everything looked right but it would not rotate. Opened the cylinder with ease and looked everything over. No signs of excess pressure and both fired cases extracted easily. Closed it again and finished the rounds in the cylinder with no problem as well another 24 rounds of that load I had with me.
Then fed it a dozen Grizzly WFNGC 265gr and a dozen LFNGC 300gr +P Grizzly rounds, some SA and some DA.
(My handloads were boxed up and buried away in a gunroom reorganization project but the Ultramax and Grizzly Cartridge loads were easily and quickly found so they made the hasty range trip).
All those went fine as well.
Puzzled.
D.
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Post by Encore64 on Oct 10, 2016 19:12:49 GMT -5
That could have been as simple as a piece of trash in the gun. Or scrap of cut metal.
Have had similar problems and learn to clean everything before shooting.
Sounds like you made a fine purchase. Congratulations...
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Post by Alaskan454 on Oct 10, 2016 21:47:46 GMT -5
Check the pawl, I have a Redhawk that locked up on occasion and it was due to the pawl tooth protruding into the cylinder window. If that's your problem it can prevent the cylinder from cycling at all in both DA and SA modes. Easy fix if that's the case.
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Post by ezekiel38 on Oct 11, 2016 0:15:42 GMT -5
Betcha it was powder particles from the Cowboy load under the extracter star(?). Have tied up many DAs with low powered cheap powder loads falling under the extracter.
If that Redhawk was going to tie up it would have done it with the Grizzly loads!
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joej
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Post by joej on Oct 11, 2016 9:02:01 GMT -5
^^^^^ that would be my SWAG, as well. I've had that happen to my Redhawk using IMR-4227, as well as other revolvers. Never happened on the first cylinder load??? but did afterward when I ejected the empties horizontally (barrel pointing downrange), as opposed to pointing the barrel straight up when extraction the empties.
Had a 500 S&W tie up once due to crud filling the cylinder gap, making one cylinder rotation difficult and then it tied up tight on the next rotation - made opening the cylinder difficult as well.
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Post by Yetiman on Oct 11, 2016 9:15:04 GMT -5
Earlier this year I traded into a Redhawk Kodiak Backpacker 44 mag. The guy I got it from said he fired 12 rounds of Winchester white box through it (remainder of box was included). He said the recoil was insane and couldn't agree to a trade fast enough. I traded a Glock for it for cripes sake.
I had made up some lighter loads for it, 240 grain LSWC's over 5.7 grains of Win 231. When I shot these everything was fine.
When I went to hotter loads, 240gr LSWC over 22 grains of IMR 4227 the cylinder would lock up after every single round fired. On mine the cylinder wouldn't open without wiggling it around for a while. I sent it in to Ruger on their dime, and it returned stating the trigger housing and cylinder latch plunger had been replaced.
It has been fine ever since, and I really like the gun a lot.
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Post by grinanddull on Oct 15, 2016 8:08:54 GMT -5
my old Redhawk is my go to pistol for when I may really want to shoot something from a beer can to maybe whatever is bothering my dogs. kind of the pump shotgun of the handgun world. reliable and accurate with a wide range of loads from 185-320 gr to shot shells. you'll love it after you get yours dialed in and some trigger time with it.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2016 13:49:31 GMT -5
The last few Ruger DAs I've worked on for people have had a considerable amount of machining flash in the action. Some of the holes in the trigger guard appear to have been broached, and had metal flash around them. It could be possible that your guns may have some similar flash too. I was concerned enough about the situation to completely remove any flash found in the trigger guard as part of the trigger job. If any flash were to break off it could cause the issues described above. These guns were all pretty late production SP101s, and were in for trigger work and tune ups for self-defense work. It's possible that other guns might see this issue as well, but I'm just guessing of course.
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