Cylinder gap danger

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Seadog

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My experience learning about cylinder gap and old worn out revolvers was around 2003. My bud had his dads old 22 revolver and we were down shooting into a river bed bank. I was maybe 5 or 6 feet to his side. We were shooting cans. Needless to say while shooting I got some hot gunpowder or lead to the side of my face. No lacerations or blood but that’s all it took for me to learn to not line up side by side while he was shooting that old pistol.
 

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Someone (the Mythbusters, maybe) tackled that one a few years ago, using a hotdog as a stand-in for a finger on a big-bore S&W wheelgun (I want to say it was a .500, but it has been too long). It didn't turn out well for the hotdog, BTW.
They used a chicken leg as the stand-in for a finger, and the cylinder gap from the .500 S&W cut the leg bone in two!

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Did you cauterize the wound by pouring gunpowder on it and lighting it off like Hopalong Cassidy used to do back in the day?
I saw that used on some military(ish?) show not long ago. Be simpler to remove a bullet from the casing & just shoot 'em again.

Sounds like something McGyver would do... :D
 

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