raging bull ?

[wyohandi]

A guy at work has one of these in 44 mag, nice looking gun, I made a holster for it for him.
While I was giving it the once over I noticed with the hammer cocked if you grabbed the cylinder you could
rotate it out of the timing notch, so I popped it open and the (can't remember what its called) piece that
pops up into the notch on the cylinder had very little spring pressure to it, I can hardly move the one on my
S&W, the one on this Taurus was easily pushed down with a fingertip. I asked the guy about it he said it had always been like that since new. It always locks into the notch, but doesn't take much to bump it out in the one
direction. Is this a normal Taurus thing? I didn't take it apart to see how the spring was set up, because it wasn't
mine and he wasn't worried about it. I guess I can't think of a reason why the cylinder would get bumped with the
hammer cocked, but it would always worry me if it was mine.

[eye shot]

My Bull gun pushes easy also but you can't bump it out of time. If your S&W pushes hard it maybe rusty inside or maybe the Taurus is just a smoother gun.

[wyohandi]

well I was wrong about the one on the S&W must have been thinking of something else, but it does have
a noticeable amount more pressure. I stopped and checked another Taurus at the store and it did the same thing
brand new. If you grab the cylinder with two fingers ( thumb and forefinger) and rocked the cylinder a little
it would fall out of the notch and let the cylinder rotate. I looked it over real good and decided the notches in the
cylinder weren't very deep, no real edge on the one side so the lock only had to move a very small amount
before it would pop out, and as the gun wears and the edge on the lock bevels a little it will only get worse. Like I said its probably not a real issue.
Just something I noticed.