So this will sound pathetic, but I just found a DIFFERENT thing to worry about with my gun. This one has actually completely taken my mind of the cylinder ding, as this one MAY have potential to ruin my gun by shooting it? I'm not sure as this is my first revolver. I took a good look at the muzzle and noticed this little crack/seam right next to the crown. I'm not sure if this is a common thing with S&W revolvers or not, but does this seem problematic? It was really hard to get a picture of it as it's so small. Link to the picture is below.
https://imgur.com/a/uZxNpvu
Below is another picture of my muzzle without trying to emphasize the crack/seam in anyway. There's also a nick on the left side of the muzzle in this picture, which means it may have been dropped on the muzzle....
https://imgur.com/a/4t55eNf
That looks again like where a tool was allowed to contact where it shouldn't. Again, only cosmetic, nothing to stress about. The crown actually looks pretty good to me.
Here's a story to help ease your mind: I once rebarreled my AR-15 match rifle with a nice, new, White Oak Armament stainless steel, 1-7" twist, .223 Wylde-chambered match barrel with matched bolt. The very first time i tried to zero it, it wouldn't run. I didn't get the front sight gas block quite lined up. Annoying, but I could fix it when I got home. However, that's not the point.
I was shooting it slung up in prone on a range with a concrete firing line. As I unwrapped myself from the sling, the front of the rifle went "screeeeee". Yep, dragged the muzzle on the concrete in front of my shooting mat. Had 3 shots through the barrel. Kicking myself, I checked it, saw no harm to the crown or rifling, went home and "fixed" the gas block alignment.
That barrel then went to 3500 rounds and I won a few matches with it. The very first 5 round 200 yard group went 1-MOA with ammo leftover from the previous barrel.
And wild cat mccane, I'm fairly confident at least one of my S&W has similar dings on the cylinder. I'll look tonight but they're finished in blue, which makes me think S&W did it when machining things originally.
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