I took my, new to me, used, 19-3 to the range today for the first time.
On my first round of six I had two misfires. I waited, unloaded and immediately noticed that the primers weren't heavily dented when compared to my wife's model 60 which was shooting the same ammunition, .38 special wadcutters.
I reloaded and had one misfire in the next round.
Again the model 60 continued to cycle the same ammo without a hickup.
Closer inspection of the miss fire rounds revealed the primers to be lightly dented compared to those fired by the model 60 which put a fairly distinct 'punch' in the center of the primer. Actually all of them seemed to be lightly touched, both fired and misfired.

I then moved to .357 ammo, in this case Magtech 158 gr. SJSP.
Interetingly I had no miss fires but the shells wouldn't eject.
I had to bang the ejector rod on the bench to get the shells to eject from the cylinder.
I then loaded the Magnum ammo in the model 60. It cycled all five and ejected them easily.
I did this again with both guns and had the same results each time. No miss fires but they wouldn't eject from the 19 without a good bang on the bench.

Any and all input/ideas and or direction would be appreciated.

Mods, if this is in the wrong section please move. I am new to the forum and still finding my way around here.


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