I agree completely with lhump1961. The recall fix involved substituting some small parts. With the new parts in the gun it is as though the gun was never subject to malfunction in the first place. My PPK/S, which was recalled just a few days after I bought it, has never malfunctioned or done anything unusual since coming back from S&W. It's a fine semiauto. I can't tell you if it is one of the guns that would have gone off when decocked, because I never did that when a round was in the chamber before sending it in.

Avoid the early guns if you want to, but you may be avoiding some custom work as well. A lot of the recall guns came back with a little extra work done on them. Mine got a ramp polish as well as the new parts; apparently many did.

Do you know how to tell if an affected gun got the recall repair? Cock the hammer and look down inside. If there is a small pin-punch dimple on the lower face of the hammer, the gun has been corrected. No punch mark, no correction.

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David Wilson