Dangerous to jog with revolver?

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I just started running/jogging, and yesterday when I did, I could hear a little clang/clang sound and thats because when you point a revolver up to the roof the shells hit the backwall then you face it down they go down. There is no light gap, so primers can touch the wall/bottom casing. Should I be worried about an AD from jogging and causing the bullet bottoms/primers to slam on the back of the revolver? Should I switch to a semi auto?
 
NO! You will never pop one off like that. A primer is designed such that it takes the heavy indentation of the firing pin to fire the round, no worries about that little bit of rattle.
 
^ What he said. If it were possible to set rounds off that way they'd probably all go off every time you fired the gun.
 
get yourself and old pinned and recessed S&W magnum snubbie and the cartridges won't move around
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Good luck jogging with a pinned and recessed model 19 or the like, that's a little heavy for a jogging companion piece.
 
The only way you will get that revolver to fire while jogging is to fall on a 20,000 volt powerline. Maybe that might fire the rounds in the gun (or maybe not.)

Of all the guns I would worry about firing while jogging, a revolver like a good S&W is the least one I'd even dream of going off.

Deaf
 
On top of what has been mentioned , A properly loaded round has the primer seated below flush by .003 to .007
 
What smokin54 said

And because the primers are seated just a little below flush, what is rattling is the base of the cartridges against the recoil shield. So, NOTHING is hitting the primers.

If somehow, you could jostle a gun holstered on your body hard enough that the inertia alone would set a primer off, your bones would be crushed long before.

In short, don't worry about it.

Lost Sheep
 
Damaging it by it falling out would be my only concern. You could throw a modern revolver at the wall all day and not have it go off.
 
If you stick with it, I think you'll eventually migrate to pepper spray. Chaffing is a bad thing. Sweating all over your gun is worse.

But no... you won't suffer a discharge by running with a revolver.
 
You're Good Man

If the ammunition is made right, the primers shouldnt be hitting anything. You are probably just hearing the base of the cases hit the recoil shield. From experience I can tell you that it is sometimes hard to get a primer to go off with a HAMMER AND NAIL. So unless you run at impossible speeds, you can't set thoes babies off.
 
Is it possible? Yeah, I guess technically. Is it likely? Probably less so than geing struck by lightning while jogging. I've heard stories of a shotshell falling on the floor and going off. For something like that to happen inside your revolver, you're having a day that was going to end with you turning in your winning Lucky For Life lottery ticket minutes before being hit by a bus.
 
I carry a model 60 in a small fanny/belly pack turned around to belly pack position when I cycle, walk or run (which is at least 3 days a week). A few years ago before I lost the big belly that position for the pack did not work, it works great now.
 
Think about all those cavalry troops all over the world in the past who carried wheel guns (single and double action, loading gate and swing out cylinder) while bouncing around on a galloping war horse? Or jouncing around in a vehicle off road in WWIi?

If there was any reason to worry, we'd have known all about it long before now.
 
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