Wow! 13 year old thread revived! I ran across all of your responses this am. I am surprised at how I described this issue all those years ago. I still have this revolver. Almost sold it after I had an eye injury occur on Christmas Day 2015. I took my nephew out to shoot, and standing off to his side about 50 fee, was observing him shoot without wearing safety glasses. At one of his shots I heard a noise as a lead fragment hit my eye. A small piece of lead punctured it. Thankfully the eye doctor was in town and he opened up his office to remove it. My eye sight is fine, but this is was another indication of the massive leading this gun presented. Also that I should have been wearing eye protection. I almost sold it after that, but no one was interested at the time. Maybe it needs a trip to S&W for warranty service? I have not used a rod to see if the cylinder is out of alignment but will do so one of these days. I really like that pistol but Inhesitate to shoot it much.