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Originally Posted by DaStray
It appears that a small piece of the hammer somehow broke which then started piercing the primers which then caused the hole in the firing pin bushing.
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DaStray,
I am amazed that no one else pointed this out to you! They just took your misunderstood description of what happened and accepted it. This has nothing to do with quality, materials or workmanship of your revolver!
You have the sequence of events backward. What has happened is the primer failed allowing high velocity gas to escape. This escaping gas eroded the pit in the hammer nose bushing and eroded the tip of the hammer nose (firing pin)! This is not unusual at all. My first guess was you were using Remington ammunition or primers. While other makers primers fail from time to time they are nothing like the failure rate of Remington 1 1/2 primers.
Don't blame the gun. This is an ammunition failure!