S&W forcing cone- is this normal?

[berg]

Have recently picked up my first revolver and noticed a few things.

First is the forcing cone, the edge is razor sharp. If I open the cylinder in a certain way I almost scrape my finger across this razor edge.




Is that the way it's supposed to be or can I lightly sand or file the edge?

Also noticed a lot of scuffs and machining marks throughout. This is a brand new gun. I was expecting less than cosmetic perfection after reading online postings, and really all I care is that it works. And even though the front sight blade is crooked and slightly loose I plan to replace it with a fiber optic anyway.

[hermosabeach]

you can soften the outer edge with croakus cloth- easy
is it normal... to me, they skipped a machining step... or S+W have really cust costs...

[kurac]

yes, that feature has been normal since the late 60's, before that they at least chamfered that edge.

[ysr_racer]

I took an India stone and just broke the outside edge on mine. No problems.

['ol shooter]

All 14 of mine are sharp, hasn't caused a problem in 40 plus years of ownership.

[ysr_racer]

All 14 of mine are sharp, hasn't caused a problem in 40 plus years of ownership.

It depends on how you reload. I hang my pistol in my weak hand with the forcing cone on top of my index finger to eject the empty shells straight down.

[IVC]

It's normal, but it shouldn't be there.

Last Thursday I shot a small indoor USPSA match with revolver in Oceanside. My middle finger on the left hand ended up with decently deep laceration as I was rushing the reload on a classifier. When I got home, I took a file and removed the edge on several of the revolvers that I do speed reloads with.

Separately, if you ever remove cylinder or tinker with opening the side plate, make sure you use purple Loctite 222. The same goes for the hammer spring adjustment screw. I had my cylinder literally fall off on a reload on Thursday, so it was a great match where I got to fix my revolver for good. Learned a lot from a fellow shooter who is an A class in revolver, but was shooting C/O at the time.

[IVC]

It depends on how you reload. I hang my pistol in my weak hand with the forcing cone on top of my index finger to eject the enjoy shells straight down.

Not sure how you do it - normally it would be the middle finger because you use the middle and ring fingers to "hug" the cylinder. Also, you shouldn't be touching the forcing cone (which is why I cut myself only when I was rushing) since it gets really hot. You don't want to instinctively drop the gun when you burn yourself.