3rd and 4th Sidewinder range report

[oldguy]

I will not bore you all with a bang by bang report over the last couple of days I was able to get to my indoor range twice.

I fired both LR and WMR rounds CCI and Winchester.

Enclosed photo one.jpg was at the end of the first shoot.
Enclosed photo two.jpg was at the end of the second shoot.

I have posted a couple of videoclips at:

http://tinyurl.com/b479csc
http://tinyurl.com/b3wjtrq

[oldguy]

I pushed wrong button !! wasn't finished the report.

Anyway the clips are 7 and 15 mb in size and make take some time to load.

The results for me are in general I am well pleased with the revolver.

My 2nd shoot issues with the WMR cylinder locking up and unable to eject spent cases I feel is the fault of the bad case that was seen in the photos for the 2nd range report.

The first video is before shooting started 4th range trip and I wanted to show how easily the WMR cartridges would slide out of the cylinder before firing.

I fired, I believe, 25 WMR cartidges before the cylinder jammed again. I switched cylinders and fired several rounds of LR before switching back to the WMR cylinder. Was able to eject the WMR cylinder and ran the .22 snake thru each cylinder before loading the rounds. Very stiff but was able to eject the spent cases. Reloaded and fired another 5 rounds which locked the cylinder up again. I removed the cylinder and the video at http://tinyurl.com/b3wjtrq will show you how tight it was. I used the plastic "safe gun flag" to push the cases out.

I feel the issue is the cylinder gets dirty and hot. The grit and the expansion caused by the retained heat from firing the Sidewinder locks the WMR case in the dirty cylinder chambers.

I can not see a real life situation where there would be a need to reload and fire the sidewinder 25 times in self-defense.

Keep the revolver clean and I foresee no problems with reloading and firing a second cylinder.