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I bought this piece a year or so ago, so I have no knowledge of its care and feeding prior to my acquisition. Two chambers have very hard extraction issues. I put some 0000 steel wool on a brass brush and , by hand, tried to polish the two offending chambers. I was able to improve one, but the other didn’t get any better at all. Loaded all six chambers, fired them, cased the piece and headed to my gunsmith. One fired case miked out as oval shaped! I don’t remember the numbers, but the offending case was .008 out of round. No wonder it was tough to extract. Anybody ever run into this? Any ideas about what I can do? I suppose I could replace the cylinder, but my guy is good for “ normal” work, but doesn’t want to try to install a new cylinder, set timing, etc. Just doesn’t have the experience on revolvers, and doesn’t want to do a poor job. I respect him for that. For now, I have a 4” barreled 5 shooter. Hank