[Ron Smith]

John and Steve,

This is actually a pretty common occurence. I work in a muzzle loading specialty shop. The owner always runs a reach rod down the barrel of every long gun that comes in, to check it. He had an elderly man come in with an original 1951 Colt revolver. The man had found it in an old house that had collapsed 50 years ago. Every chamber was loaded. Three of them fired in the firing tube. And a forth flared but didn't go off.

Ron