Cleaning a DA S&W revolver.

[Adam Helmer]

How many guys/gals pull the cylinder off a DA Smith and clean the sludge off the yoke assembly now and then?

A neighbor came by to shoot his M28 S&W the other day. I like the M28 .357 S&W because it was my first duty gun as a local cop after I graduated from college in 1970 and mine is still on establishment. That being said, Mike shot his dad's revolver and it had a lot of resistance when being cocked on single action and DA was a HARD pull! The gun is 30+ years old and has been cleaned, after a fashion, I suppose.

I took the revolver to my bench and pulled off the cylinder and yoke assembly. It was a hard pull. It looked like the barrel of the yoke assembly had been "blacktopped!" Mike said his dad (now deceased) never took the cylinder off the gun. I concur.

I have had folks tell me they "run an oil patch down the bore and chambers after firing; that constituted gun cleaning, I suppose. I cleaned the yoke and the bore and cylinder. The M28 absolutely "free wheeled" after the "tar" of 30+ years was removed.

I cannot wait until the next "Pilgrim" comes to my backyard range. So many guns and so little time.....

Adam