G.A. Heath wrote:I have. I've seen pictures of Rugers, Smith & Wessons, even a Dan Wesson with their barrels in that condition. I have seen several pictures of Taurus revolvers in that condition too. This is commonly caused by over torquing the barrel into the frame. I find it interesting that it failed with shot shells though.Jumping Frog wrote:I've never seen a pictures of a Ruger with a failure like that.TxCommish wrote:For all we know, the Judge in question could have been dropped from a second story window onto concrete, or run over with a car, or used as a hammer, or?? before the OP "loaded her up."
Yep, if I remember the history, some of the early RedHawks suffered a similar barrel failure which lead to the introduction of the Super RedHawk. Turned out the previous RedHawk failures were not design or material related, but use of the wrong type lube when the barrels were installed/torqued on a few of them.