Glad your ok. I second the advice you have been given. I just had a detective special brought to me with 3 bullets stuck in the barrel. The owner didn't head the warning of a strange sound on the first two. Fortunately his hand and the gun survived.

"A quiet hit in the right place is better than a loud miss in the wrong place followed by 10 more shots on the run"

I was a handgun hunter, when handgun wasn't cool.....