Dumb question perhaps, but revolvers are new to me. And I got beat with a stick last night for loading progressive load backwards.

It depends on if you are north or south of the equator.

The cylinders don't all rotate in the same direction.   Many rotate the wrong way, relative to the Colt standard.   :-)

Smith , Ruger , and Tararus all rotate counter clockwise.

Colts rotate wrong ways ( clock wise )

30 minutes ago, Fred2 said:

It depends on if you are north or south of the equator.

Revolver not toilet

Zeke, you're a mess!

lol

30 minutes ago, 10X said:

The cylinders don't all rotate in the same direction.   Many rotate the wrong way, relative to the Colt standard.   :-)

 

28 minutes ago, alec.mc said:

Smith , Ruger , and Tararus all rotate counter clockwise.

Colts rotate wrong ways ( clock wise )

Well this is awkward 

1 minute ago, JT Custom Guns said:

Zeke, you're a mess!

lol

I jus think @GRIZlikes hitting me with a stick 

I know Colts go clockwise - that's where the 'positive' comes from in Police Positive...the hand pushes the cylinder up and into the bolt/frame

Smiths are counter clockwise.

 

You're going to make me get up and look at my dan wesson...

Charter Arms revolvers don't spin, they just lock up after the first shot.  Ask me how I know.  Or ask @djg0770

Colt originally patented the clockwise rotation, which is why people felt it was a better design. If you rotate clockwise, the force on the cylinder in a normal opening design (swings out to the left), pushes the cylinder into the frame. If you stopped movement of the cylinder, it would cause the crane to push against the frame.

Likewise, a counterclockwise rotation... if you stopped the cylinder from spinning, it would open the cylinder by forcing the crane to the left. S&W’s answer to that was having the ejector rod lock up at the barrel end.

From a design standpoint, clockwise rotation is better... but with modern designs that have been working for YEARS, both work. If you want to look into it, C&Rsenal on YouTube is doing videos on WWI small arms. They did an episode on a Spanish K-frame copy, which I believe went into that... if not that, one of the Colt episodes that followed it.

Follow the acorn and the direction that it points. That will give you the direction of the rotation. On the S&W it goes counter clockwise.... Don't ask me where I got that from someone else passed that info along to me a long time ago....

11 hours ago, Ray Ray said:

Charter Arms revolvers don't spin, they just lock up after the first shot.  Ask me how I know.  Or ask @djg0770

Every manufactured firearm has anomalous failures within their lineup.  You know, like Taurus...

2 hours ago, Bully said:

Every manufactured firearm has anomalous failures within their lineup.  You know, like Taurus...

Yup, like my Ruger too.

Zek - Do all Clocks Revolve in the same direction?

Zeke mixed up his Viagra and his iron pills and now his dork points north.

3 hours ago, JT Custom Guns said:

Zek - Do all Clocks Revolve in the same direction?

Colt wise...

I had no idea what to expect when I clicked on this thread.

1 minute ago, sota said:

I had no idea what to expect when I clicked on this thread.

Party party! And remember to smile. 

1 hour ago, Handyman said:

Zeke mixed up his Viagra and his iron pills and now his dork points north.

What is viagra?

1 minute ago, Zeke said:

What is viagra?

When you get to be my age, its the stuff you take that keeps you from accidently rolling out of bed at night.

Just now, Handyman said:

When you get to be my age, its the stuff you take that keeps you from accidently rolling out of bed at night.

Like a wheel chock? 

 

 

22 minutes ago, Zeke said:

Like a wheel chock? 

10-4 good buddy

8 minutes ago, Handyman said:

10-4 good buddy

You know and I know what that’s cb trucker slang for

1 hour ago, sota said:

I had no idea what to expect when I clicked on this thread.

Neither did I, but I had a pretty good notion that it was going to be entertaining.  

2 hours ago, Zeke said:

Like a wheel chock? 

 

 

more like a kick stand.

Good info here!

soo to load 3. Look at acorn. Go special then +p then .44 magnum and close on the empty chamber.

On 1/20/2018 at 8:14 AM, Ray Ray said:

Yup, like my Ruger too.

Fil, well technically Mil new sw scratching out of time. NIB gun. 4” stainless .357. Sw fixed within 2 weeks

Uberti and Cimarron also are clockwise

Uberti and Cimarron also are clockwise

Unless you shoot them in the opposite hemisphere. Sort of like toilet water. [emoji23][emoji6]


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2 hours ago, myhatinthering said:

Uberti and Cimarron also are clockwise

Thank you!

On 1/19/2018 at 5:51 PM, Ray Ray said:

Charter Arms revolvers don't spin, they just lock up after the first shot.  Ask me how I know.  Or ask @djg0770

This may be true NOW, but David Berkowitz (Son of Sam) had ZERO problems using his Charter Arms Bulldog in .44 Spl with 246 grain lead round nose bullets.  So a 40 or so year old example might be "trouble-free"........