I’m alway intrigued about them. The prices I’ve been seeing ($125.00) are certainly attractive, almost too good to be true. For that price, it would be useful if a guy wanted to learn to twirl a six-gun cowboy style. I’ve heard a lot of bad reviews, and some good ones too.
There was a gentleman at the range yesterday shooting one so I asked what he thought about it. Turns out he has two, one currently back in for warranty repairs and the one he was shooting. He said he was going to have to send it back too. Said the empty cases were sticking in the cylinders and he had to pry them out with a thin screwdriver. He showed me and then tried lubing them with oil as he loaded. I told him that probably wouldn’t help, and it didn’t.
Something looked odd so I tried pushing the ejector rod through an empty cylinder. The problem was that when rotated to the ejection / loading gate, the cylinder was not quite lining up for the ejection rod to let it enter the chamber. I had to turn it a little past the stop position to get the chamber aligned with the rod.
I couldn’t see any indication that the chambers weren’t lining up with the barrel, no shaved lead on the cylinder front or barrel cone. And no indication of wayward bullet strikes on the target. I guess you can’t expect a lot for $125, obviously no one at the factory had checked the ejector rod function.
I don’t recall what he said the problem was with his other revolver, but it was something else.