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Old 09-29-2015, 02:14 PM
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My experience was that in the past, the only guns left in the handgun case at the LGS were models with canted barrels, because folks passed on them while buying all the good ones. Same with online dealers....seemed most folks using them were getting canted barrels. I assume this is because many of those guns had been returned/refused previously and they were the only inventory left. Wasn't too long ago it was a surprise to see any new Smith in a display case. Add to the fact that demand has slowed and so has production. More time to do things right the first time. Seems in the majority of cases when folks got a barrel canted to the point they couldn't live with it, S&W was happy to fix it. I think the newer two piece barrels that come on many of the new smiths has eliminated the canting also.
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