Help 28-2 problem today ,

[TeamRoper]

My 28-2 is pinned and recessed. The recessed part may be important

Shooting .357 Factory Rem 158g JHP today there was twice after 2 or 3 rounds shooting single action that when I cocked the hammer back it failed to lock back after rotating cylinder. I emptied by ejecting spent and live rounds in the cylinder both times and everything worked fine. One of those times there was resistance to turn the cylinder when cocking hammer the first try.

I looked at the spent casings and did not see primer had backed out past flush with rim, used straight edge to verify.

Other than that it is extremely accurate.

 

[GunarSailors]

Make sure your ejector rod is tight and not bent.

 

[black88is]

Plus 1 on ejector rod.

 

[jarhead 0802]

oh man, that puppy is busted, you better sell it as fast as you can. Seeing as how I'm a kind and generous person, I'll take it off your hands for $500.
just kidding, hopefully it is something easy to fix, like the ejector rod.

 

[shotgun693]

Check the ejector rod then the gap between the forcing cone and cylinder face.

 

[scooter123]

When you eject your empties you need to point the barrel straight up and then hit the ejector rod. The reason for doing this because it is the only CERTAIN method for insuring that any unburnt powder particles or debris remain in the cases when you eject them. Fail to do this and those stray pariticles can wreak all kinds of problems. Get a particle trapped in the recess for the rim on one chamber and that cartridge will sit high enough to cause enough drag that it can be nearly impossible or totally impossible to pull the trigger. BTW, I know this for certain from first hand experience. My experience with my pinned and recessed 19-3 has shown this will happen at least 30% of the time if I get just a bit sloppy about using a good brisk ejection stroke with the barrel as perfectly vertical as I can hold it. I also have a Dan Wesson 15-2 with a recessed cylinder and have the exact same issues if I get sloppy about ejection. IMO it's one negative aspect about recessed cylinders nobody ever mentions.

 

[Inusuit]

Good advice from all who posted above. The one instance of the cylinder binding with the gun empty makes me think it may be the ejector rod.

Has the gun been fired with .38 Specials? If so, the .357 cartridges may not be fully seating in the chambers and binding on the recoil shield. We shoot a lot of .38 Specials in our Basic Pistol Class. .357s are very difficult to seat until we have thoroughly cleaned the chambers of the fouling caused by the shorter cartridges.