I will not be buying aluminum alloy frames with or without scandium from now on. I feel borderline betrayed by my 637. It was fine when I bought it, it has never seen +P the whole time I owned it and it cracked. Now that I'm shopping for another Airweight or similar I'm seeing cracked frames more and more. Maybe the N frame would have enough beef in the frame under the barrel to hold up but I don't need to roll the dice like that. And the idea that they will just keep fixing it does nothing for me. If they just have to keep fixing it then I would say that is a known problem and should be done away with. Milking the repair department for all of S&W's money only drives up the price of everything they sell. I will avoid alloy for that reason alone. Besides, the dang scandium guns are priced so high it's like they know they will be giving you two guns for the price of one.

Or I could just be really sore over this issue since my 637 cracked me up.