I have to guess that S&W made some internal dimensional changes to the 617 cylinder when they went to 10-shot capacity for I've never had a moment's difficulty extracting empty cases or with FTFs with either of my six-shot no-dash 617s.

I realize that six empty cases would require less effort to extract than 10 and I've only ever used CCI MiniMags in my guns but all these comments about those problems has me wondering if something wasn't changed aside from the number of chambers.

Ed