You can damage one that way? Sounds like a piece of shit.
It comes a ratio to scale thing. The bigger those revolvers get, the more torque on the crane when it is open. There are no big bore DA revolvers made that can handle flopping the cylinder shut. Its one thing on a .38 spl and another on a hog leg.
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