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RIDE-RED 350r
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P&R prices: Mild to wild depending on model, condition, and era of manufacture. The cheapest nice condition P&R's I see start at around $500 and go up from there...waaaay up in some cases.
And no, so long as the internals of a Smith revolver are not modified or defective, they will not accidentally discharge if dropped. There is a mechanism that prevents this.
And it goes without saying, due diligence and care in the handling and use of any firearm must be exercised by the user. The #1 most effective safety feature is you!
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And no, so long as the internals of a Smith revolver are not modified or defective, they will not accidentally discharge if dropped. There is a mechanism that prevents this.
And it goes without saying, due diligence and care in the handling and use of any firearm must be exercised by the user. The #1 most effective safety feature is you!
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OKFC05
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An internal hammer block provides drop safety. It is simple to cock the hammer and look at the front of the hammer to be sure nobody has removed the hammer block. It sometimes gets removed to "lighten the trigger pull" but that is really a dumb idea.
The hump on the rebound slide will keep the hammer from moving forward in an uncocked condition. Of course, if you drop it from high enough up on a hard enough surface it's conceivable that parts will be broken, and the firing pin could hit a primer. But that would take a lot of bad luck for that to happen 
RIDE-RED 350r
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"Recessed" in terms of a pinned and recessed Smith refers to the chambers in the cylinder. The chamber holes are countersunk so that when a round is loaded in the chamber the case head is flush with the rest of the cylinder surface.
Skeetr57
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Only magnums and .22 rim fires were ever recessed, and the rim fires weren't recessed until @ 1930. Now, only the rim rim fires are recessed.
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The picture below may aid Ride-Red 350r's description. The recessed cylinders and pinned barrels were deemed by some as unnecessary. They were eliminated as an engineering cost cutting decision and began to be fazed out in about 1982...
The picture below may aid Ride-Red 350r's description. The recessed cylinders and pinned barrels were deemed by some as unnecessary. They were eliminated as an engineering cost cutting decision and began to be fazed out in about 1982...
