Gary Reeder
S&W needs to wake up before they ruin their
Saturday, August 24, 2024, 11:09

reputation. We have received several revolvers in the last week or so that were really bad. A 686 we got in was the worse one. You couldn't cock it. When I took the side plate off the internals were locked in tight. It was almost impossible to pry the parts out. The parts had deep milling machine serrations on the internals. The transfer bar was wedged into the upper recess for the trigger so tight I thought it had been glued in.
S&W is one of my favorite companies but there was no way this gun had been shot or even function tested. We aLL have a lemon from time to time but I sure hope this is not indicative of their current revolvers.
I know several companies have put their revolvers on the back burner as their bread & butter is their semi autos. And with everybody buying concealed carry guns these days it is somewhat easy for a lemon to manage to get out the door. But I sure hope this is a fluke.