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Old 12-29-2011, 09:36 AM
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Default 6906 Barrel failure and replacement

Had an interesting trip to the range last night. Took my 6906 planning to run a box of WWB through it. On my second magazine I had a FTE. I have never experienced any kind of failure with this gun so I was quite surprised. Next round, same thing. Now I was really puzzled. On the next round the slide froze halfway back. My friend took the gun home as he is vastly more experienced than I. He called me later and said the barrel had a bulge in it and that inside it was obvious where the rifling had started to part. I was shocked. Anyway, I now need a new barrel for my 6906. In searching around the net I saw one at an auction site and it said it was one of the "older models with hood". Are there different barrels? I would think that if there was an engineering change that they would have a dash one, etc. I love my Smith and I want to get it back in shape ASAP. Could someone with knowledge of this please school me so that I don't waste money on the wrong barrel. Thanks in advance,
BA
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